Courtney Duckworth
Courtney Duckworth's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Stars at Noon (2022)
62%
“Stars at Noon suggests a scrambled firmament where once-fixed waymarks falter, winking hazily in the wrong light.” –
Screen Slate
Oct 2, 2022
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The Calming (2020)
90%
“Buried within The Calming is an observation, if not a Jia-style critique, of how modern atomization ruptures a sense of community.” –
Cinema Scope
Jul 12, 2021
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Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
99%
“This pressurization and sense of purpose makes Never Rarely very different from Hittman's other work...” –
Cinema Scope
Sep 17, 2020
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Nobadi (2019)
60%
“While it at first feels welcome that the film doesn't slide into the easy grooves of a "common-ground" story that doesn't reflect lived realities, Makovics has only replaced that rote narrative with a litany of empty hatred.” –
Cinema Scope
Sep 7, 2019
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Too Late to Die Young (2018)
96%
“"As in the films of Lucrecia Martel, it is hard to pin down who belongs to who, but the muddled relationships only heighten the sense of a sprawling utopia."” –
Screen Slate
May 31, 2019
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High Life (2018)
83%
4/5
“Denis sidesteps the genre's blood-curdling tensions (Alien) and atmospheric grandeur (2001: A Space Odyssey), instead focusing on beautifully hypnotic sequences that owe a clear debt to Andrei Tarkovsky's dreamlike Solaris.” –
Time Out
Apr 5, 2019
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An Elephant Sitting Still (2018)
94%
“Traces of Béla Tarr (2011's The Turin Horse), who mentored [director] Hu Bo, imbue some of these camera movements too, but Hu's is ultimately a singular vision: less pendular and severe than kinetic, curious.” –
Artforum
Mar 14, 2019
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The Favourite (2018)
93%
“Often accused of ham-fisted endings, Lanthimos triumphs here.” –
Cinema Scope
Jan 24, 2019
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At Eternity's Gate (2018)
79%
“At Eternity's Gate is more tactile and spare. Schnabel seeks his elusive subject, by proxy, through the lucid textures around him: monumental stalks of dried sunflowers, wheat blue in the dusk, pink petals unfurling from a vase...” –
Reverse Shot
Dec 6, 2018
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Grass (2018)
92%
“Hong at his trickster best.” –
Reverse Shot
Oct 12, 2018
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Hotel by the River (2018)
96%
“Hotel by the River... finds Hong in a melancholy mood. He avoids the puckish pirouettes in time and the structural games of last year's films for something more subtle and spare.” –
Reverse Shot
Oct 12, 2018
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Some Girl(s) (2013)
53%
“The weight of dull clichs only makes the stilted dialogue harder to stomach.” –
Film Comment Magazine
Nov 4, 2013
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Lovelace (2013)
53%
“By aiming for the audience's sympathy, Lovelace tidies and ultimately silences the star it tries to redeem.” –
Film Comment Magazine
Nov 4, 2013
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