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Adam Kempenaar

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Pride & Prejudice (2005) 87% 4.5/5 “"Wright’s filmmaking is elegant, vibrant and prudently ostentatious."” – Filmspotting Apr 13, 2025 Full Review Zodiac Killer Project (2025) 85% 4/5 “ …a deconstruction of true crime… [that] comes around to arriving at some of the same kind of epiphanies that that material, in its best form, often arrives at.” – Filmspotting Mar 3, 2025 Full Review A Different Man (2024) 93% 3.5/5 “Every space around Edward becomes a manifestation of his psychic discontent.” – Filmspotting Feb 23, 2025 Full Review Grizzly Man (2005) 93% 4.5/5 “Timothy Treadwell is the living embodiment of Herzog's ecstatic truth.” – Filmspotting Feb 22, 2025 Full Review Cleo From 5 to 7 (1961) 93% 5/5 “The rebelliousness of the French New Wave, the embrace of invention, are all there. And it’s a work of sophistication and formal elegance.” – Filmspotting Feb 15, 2025 Full Review Emilia Pérez (2024) 72% 3.5/5 “Whatever its failings are as a musical, Emilia Perez makes up for it as a tragic melodrama.” – Filmspotting Feb 15, 2025 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% 5/5 “To behold “The Brutalist” and wish Brady Corbet showed more restraint entirely misses the essence...” – Filmspotting Feb 7, 2025 Full Review Singin' in the Rain (1952) 100% 5/5 “...might be the most magical of movies about movies precisely because it doesn’t insist on the magic of movies.” – Filmspotting Feb 7, 2025 Full Review Presence (2024) 88% 4/5 “Soderbergh remains the consummate tactician. He might be playing with POV, but there’s nothing prankish about his approach, only purposeful.” – Filmspotting Feb 1, 2025 Full Review September 5 (2024) 93% 3.5/5 “Knowing [Munich and One Day in September], the suspense isn’t in the outcome; it’s in the difficult decisions that have to be made by the journalists in the unexpected - and unprepared for - position of covering the story.” – Filmspotting Jan 12, 2025 Full Review Babygirl (2024) 76% 2.5/5 “I don’t think the two films are interested in exploring the exact same questions, nor are they stylistically similar, but Babygirl might’ve evoked more of a sense of Eyes Wide Shut's danger…” – Filmspotting Jan 12, 2025 Full Review A Complete Unknown (2024) 82% 3/5 “On rewatch, some of the usual biopic sins are [still] there... but it was also clearer that the film is consciously constructed around a central question, which, in Dylan’s case, is ‘the’ central question.” – Filmspotting Jan 12, 2025 Full Review Nosferatu (2024) 84% 3/5 “...most entrancing early on during its ominous, dread-soaked set pieces.” – Filmspotting Jan 12, 2025 Full Review The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) 97% 4/5 “Functions as both a searing domestic drama about a contemporary Iranian family and a broader allegory for the enduring cultural struggle against patriarchy and oppression.” – Filmspotting Nov 28, 2024 Full Review Gladiator II (2024) 70% 3/5 “The scale of the distractions correlates to the scale of dissoluteness and corruption. It’s almost as if history repeats itself.” – Filmspotting Nov 28, 2024 Full Review Anora (2024) 93% 4.5/5 “As brazen and unapologetic as many of Baker’s characters are… There is a desperation and a dependency on others that Ani refuses to let define her.” – Filmspotting Nov 23, 2024 Full Review All We Imagine as Light (2024) 100% 4.5/5 “Kapadia doesn’t strain to portray the machinery and frenetic movement of Mumbai; she seeks out the poetry of the city – the physical and emotional spaces in between.” – Filmspotting Nov 23, 2024 Full Review Blitz (2024) 81% 3.5/5 “...the Vermeer-like glow that illuminates [Ronan's] face as the camera tracks toward her across the factory floor. McQueen finds beauty in Rita’s resolve.” – Filmspotting Nov 23, 2024 Full Review Conclave (2024) 93% 3/5 “As with All Quiet On the Western Front, Berger is concerned with machinery and modernity and how they clash with tradition.” – Filmspotting Nov 8, 2024 Full Review The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) 84% 4.5/5 “What makes it so terrifying is how awfully real it all feels.” – Filmspotting Oct 25, 2024 Full Review Saturday Night (2024) 78% 2.5/5 “The cosplay is entertaining (and accurate) enough, but the conceit leaves ensemble members – to borrow the title of Jay Mohr’s book about his two-year stint on SNL – gasping for airtime. Meaningful airtime, anyway.” – Filmspotting Oct 25, 2024 Full Review Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) 31% 2/5 “Dramatically inert, devoting 138 very deliberate minutes to revealing what was undeniable from the first film.” – Filmspotting Oct 11, 2024 Full Review Megalopolis (2024) 45% 4/5 “...unabashedly, absurdly theatrical, with boldly unnatural dialogue and performances, ostentatious imagery, and one extended cross-cutting sequence that’s as potent as any Coppola has produced.” – Filmspotting Oct 4, 2024 Full Review Lady Bird (2017) 99% 5/5 “In every example where resolution or a character epiphany occurs, you can point to how Gerwig undercuts those moments in ways that less honest, conventional movies would.” – Filmspotting Sep 20, 2024 Full Review The Shawshank Redemption (1994) 89% 4.5/5 “Deakins’s work here began his run of 16 Oscar nominations... it’s a crucial part of Shawshank’s enduring legacy.” – Filmspotting Sep 20, 2024 Full Review
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