Drama 7/14

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Sep 7, 20214 min read

Shiva Baby ★★1/2

Sennott’s performance carries the film, and it nearly succeeds in overcoming string of stereotypes and a plot that's weak and insufficient.

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Aug 15, 20213 min read

The Green Knight ★★★

Award-winning writer and director David Lowery has created a deeply flawed protagonist, a modern Hamlet without introspection.

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Aug 6, 20214 min read

White on White ("Blanco en Blanco") ★★★

This bleak tale is an example of didactic, post-colonial cinema, a horrific but essential take on Anglo genocide. And it's more than that.

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Jul 12, 20213 min read

Zola ★★★

It's too early to anoint director (and co-writer) Janicza Bravo as the next Tarantino, but most of that director’s ingredients are here.

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Jun 26, 20214 min read

In the Heights ★★★

Plain stories and two-dimensional characters are common to musicals; one expects the uncommon, creative mind behind “Hamilton” to go farther

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Jun 17, 20213 min read

Riders of Justice ★★★1/2

"Riders” is a riff on causation, using our deep belief in the revenge trope and causation to lure us in. But comedy prevails.

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Jun 9, 20214 min read

A Quiet Place Part II ★★★

With its notable withholding of blood and gore, “A Quiet Place Part II” is family fare—one might say “horror-lite.”

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May 27, 20214 min read

There Is No Evil ★★★1/2

Filmed in secret and smuggled out of Iran, "There Is No Evil" is a stunning achievement, capturing an ethical conundrum and a nation's agony

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May 8, 20213 min read

The Forty-Year-Old Version ★★★1/2

Most 2020 best films were downers; this is an upper. Radha is not quite Lin-Manuel Miranda and this is not “Hamilton," but close enough.

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Apr 21, 20214 min read

Judas and the Black Messiah ★★★

The film resonates loudly with what is happening now at the hands of the police to black and brown men - and some poor white people.

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Mar 31, 20214 min read

The Father ★★★★

As Anthony, the 84-year-old protagonist, Anthony Hopkins is at his King Lear best, and as his daughter Anne, Olivia Colman is just as good.

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Mar 25, 20214 min read

Promising Young Woman ★★★1/2

Cassie (short for Cassandra) is a magnificent machine of vengeance, played to steely perfection by award-winning actress Carey Mulligan.

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Mar 19, 20213 min read

News of the World ★★1/2

News of the World” has all the trappings of the on-the-road adventure genre, with hints of the Western and the buddy film.

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Mar 6, 20213 min read

Nomadland ★★★

This is by any standard a peculiar film, combining as it does the fictional with the real, and featuring a self-contained protagonist.

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Feb 28, 20214 min read

Minari ★★★1/2

“Minari” also interrogates the idea of faith: his faith in himself and science, her faith in Christianity (even in exorcism).

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Feb 22, 20213 min read

Another Round (“Druk”) ★★★1/2

The complexity of “Another Round” and its rejection of the preachy demonization of excessive drinking make it interesting and entertaining.

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Feb 3, 20215 min read

The White Tiger ★★★1/2

The story of Balram and his “masters” is complex, fascinating, and chilling, a populist tale of caste and class, resonating systemic racism.

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Jan 26, 20214 min read

2 Film Critics: Top 10 Films for 2020

In spite of being deprived of theaters, it was a good year for film.

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Jan 22, 20214 min read

One Night in Miami ★★1/2

...woefully little celebration takes place, an unlikely scenario given the Champ’s need for applause and the monumentality of his win.

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Jan 6, 20213 min read

Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom ★★★

White racism is the backdrop against which all actions—including some not predictable—occur. That’s the tragedy.

Anora

The Wild Robot

Small Things Like These

Conclave

His Three Daughters

The Outrun

Megalopolis

My Old Ass

Red Rooms

Good One

Between the Temples

Alien: Romulus

Kneecap

Totem

Longlegs

A Quiet Place: Day One

Memory

Hit Man

Inside Out 2

Kinds of Kindness

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

The Fall Guy

Civil War

Challengers

La Chimera

Housekeeping for Beginners

The Beast La Be te)

All of Us Strangers

Io Capitano

The Teachers' Lounge

Perfect Days

Rustin

American Fiction

The Zone of Interest

Poor Things

The Holdovers

Maestro

Fallen Leaves

Eileen

May December

Saltburn

Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d'une chute)

Killers of the Flower Moon

Scarlet

The Royal Hotel

Showing Up

Past Lives

Bottoms

Frances Ha

Damsels in Distress

You Hurt My Feelings

Barbie

Oppenheimer

Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Asteroid City

To Dub or Not To Dub: Rethinking the cineaste's aversion to dubbing

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret
Master Gardener

Saint Omer

Hannah Ha Ha

The Whale

Ghost Tropic

Argentina, 1985

Linoleum

Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio

Triangle of Sadness

All Quiet on the Western Front (Im Westen nichts Neues)

The Quiet Girl

Women Talking

White Noise

After Yang

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Aftersun

The Fabelmans

Living

The Banshees of Inisherin

Till

Decision to Leave

Tár

In Our Prime

God's Country

Barbarian

Funny Pages

Resurrection

Bad Luck Banging

Nope

Cha Cha Real Smooth

Kimi

Everything Everywhere All At Once

Mass

The Outfit

Top Gun: Maverick

A Chiara

Happening (L'Événement)

The Northman

King Richard

A Hero (Ghahreman)

CODA

Flee (Flugt)

Parallel Mothers (Madres paraleles)

Nightmare Alley

The Worst Person in the World

Drive My Car

Spencer

Licorice Pizza

Petite Maman

INTERVIEW with Warren Beatty’s Reds historical consultant, Robert A. Rosenstone

Bergman Island

Passing

The Lost Daughter

Belfast

tick, tick...BOOM!

The Power of the Dog

Pig

The French Dispatch

Bad Attitude: The Art of Spain Rodriguez

The Souvenir (Part One)

Dune

Black Bear

No Time to Die

Acasă, My Home (“Acasă”)

No Sudden Move

Quo Vadis, Aida?

Shiva Baby

The Green Knight

White on White

The Truffle Hunters

Zola

In the Heights

Riders of Justice

A Quiet Place Part II

There Is No Evil

Syndrome K

The Forty-Year-Old Version

Judas and the Black Messiah

Crip Camp

The Father

Promising Young Woman

News of the World

Nomadland

Minari

Another Round ("Druk")

Some Kind of Heaven

The White Tiger

One Night in Miami

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Mangrove

Mank

You Never Had It: An Evening with Bukowski

The True Adventures of Wolfboy

The Vast of Night

Martin Eden

Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful

The Wild Goose Lake

Cuties ("Mignonnes")

I'm Thinking of Ending Things

The Assistant

Palm Springs

Sorry We Missed You

The Painted Bird

The Truth

Bacurau

Da 5 Bloods

Beanpole

Tommaso

L'Innocente ("The Innocent")

The Painter and the Thief

Bad Education

Until the Birds Return

The Two Popes

The Lighthouse

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Midsommar

Ford v Ferrari

American Factory

First Cow

Seberg

Ordinary Love

Portrait of a Lady on Fire

The Traitor/Il Traditore

Uncut Gems

Les Misérables

The Last Black Man in San Francisco

Bombshell

1917

Knives Out

Little Women

Marriage Story

Queen & Slim

The Irishman

Cold Brook

Jojo Rabbit

Parasite

Joker

Ad Astra

Pain and Glory

First Love

Downton Abbey

Monos

The Goldfinch

Late Night

Good Boys

The Farewell

Yesterday

Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood

They Shall Not Grow Old

Toy Story 4

Bad Times at the El Royale

Bob Wilson's Life and
Death of Marina
Abramovic

The Sisters Brothers

Gloria Bell

Us

Won't You Be My
Neighbor

Never Look Away

Capernaum

Everybody Knows

Shoplifters

Three Identical Strangers

Minding the Gap

Cold War

The Favourite

Creed II

If Beale Street Could Talk

Roma

Can You Ever Forgive Me

Green Book

The House with a Clock in its Walls

Wildlife

The Kindergarten Teacher

Free Solo

A Star is Born

Museo

Eighth Grade

BlacKkKlansman

Sorry to Bother You

A Ciambra

The First Purge

Piazza Vittorio

Loro 1

My Cousin Rachel

Black Panther

Marshall

Call Me By Your Name

I, Tonya

Mudbound

The Darkest Hour

The Post

The Shape of Water

Indiscretion of an American Wife (Stazione Termini)

Downsizing

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

INTERVIEW with "Blade Runner" Screenwriter Hampton Fancher

Lady Bird

Rome Adventure

Last Flag Flying

Mother!

Blade Runner 2049

Logan Lucky

Wonder Woman

Dunkirk

The Beguiled

Berlin Syndrome

Facing Windows

Baby Driver

Personal Shopper

INTERVIEW with "John Wick" Screenwriter Derek Kolstad

I Am Not Your Negro

Sing

Get Out

The Salesman

Toni Erdmann

Hacksaw Ridge

Hidden Figures

Fences

Arrival

Elle

Lion

La La Land

Hell or High Water

Manchester by the Sea

Moonlight

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

Doctor Strange

Florence Foster Jenkins

Demon

Mia Madre

Indignation

Captain Fantastic

Weiner

2 FILM CRITICS

Bill and Dianne's Excellent Adventure

Reviewing Films, Together

4 STARS

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