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David Walsh

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Born in New York City, David Walsh has written on film and other artistic matters for the World Socialist Web Site and its print predecessor since 1991.

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http://www.wsws.org/sections/category/arts/films.shtml

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It Ends With Us (2024) 54% “The vacuous character of the Lively-Baldoni warfare speaks to the largely barren state of mainstream filmmaking, dominated by conglomerates, billionaire CEOs and a handful of enormously wealthy performers.” – World Socialist Web Site Apr 21, 2025 Full Review Anora (2024) 93% 2/4 “Baker’s watchword, as it were, is no indictment, no condemnation. When it comes to Ani, that’s fine. When it comes to the social order, that turns into artistic and social negligence.” – World Socialist Web Site Apr 21, 2025 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% “The Brutalist is a historical film with almost no concrete history or historical reference points, taking place during a period...of explosive developments...; a film about artists and intellectuals who barely discuss art and intellectual problems.” – World Socialist Web Site Apr 21, 2025 Full Review The Mother of All Lies (2023) 100% “The filmmaker’s approach is unusual, to a certain extent perhaps forced upon her by circumstances. For political reasons, it remains difficult to confront the crimes committed by Hassan II (whose son, Mohammed VI, is the nation’s present ruler).” – World Socialist Web Site Jan 13, 2025 Full Review My Old Ass (2024) 90% 2/4 “It doesn’t take that much to be more interesting. Simply a certain social insight and sympathy. Contemporary cinema is capable of that too.” – World Socialist Web Site Jan 13, 2025 Full Review Kinds of Kindness (2024) 71% “The characters are all deluded and continuously pushed around, under external control of various kinds and in love with that control. They want to be enslaved and abused, they long or even beg for it. It is the only source of genuine pleasure for them.” – World Socialist Web Site Jan 13, 2025 Full Review Megalopolis (2024) 45% “A confused, shallow mess. It intends to be a broad statement about contemporary American life, culture and politics, but it fails in any meaningful sense along those lines.” – World Socialist Web Site Oct 17, 2024 Full Review Wicked Little Letters (2023) 80% 3/4 “Wicked Little Letters loses a certain amount of strength as it goes along, through no fault of Colman, Spall, Buckley, Atkins .... It loses force in proportion to the filmmakers’ attempt to turn the work into a critique of patriarchy and misogyny.” – World Socialist Web Site Aug 26, 2024 Full Review Fallen Leaves (2023) 97% 2/4 “Fallen Leaves has humorous and moving moments, but they are too few in number. In general, the self-consciously restrained style is irritating, not illuminating. It closes the film off to life, rather than opening it up. ” – World Socialist Web Site Aug 26, 2024 Full Review To a Land Unknown (2024) 97% 4/4 “To a Land Unknown is able to draw power and significance from contemporary events because it is already oriented toward the great questions of our time.” – World Socialist Web Site Aug 26, 2024 Full Review The Killer (2023) 85% “The Killer is not a good film, it is misguided from beginning to end. Why should anyone care about the central character or most of the others?” – World Socialist Web Site Jul 11, 2024 Full Review Hit Man (2023) 95% 2/4 “What Hit Man entirely fails to examine is the more obvious, glaring matter: the intense brutality of American life.” – World Socialist Web Site Jul 3, 2024 Full Review Emily the Criminal (2022) 94% 2/4 “Writer-director Ford, who introduces intriguing social facts into his work, seems unclear himself about the driving forces in the drama.” – World Socialist Web Site Jul 3, 2024 Full Review Art College 1994 (2023) 89% “Liu is an intelligent and thoughtful artist, and, as the portrait of a group of artists as young people, his film is charming and amiable, occasionally moving and unsettling. The central problem ... lies in its essential intellectual amorphousness.” – World Socialist Web Site Jun 5, 2024 Full Review Woodland (2023) 83% “Woodland ... imagines it can deal in a genuinely meaningful manner with the consequences of a terrorist attack as a purely personal psychological event, without ever exploring ... the nature ... of the attack or the character of the society... ” – World Socialist Web Site May 30, 2024 Full Review Sidonie In Japan (2023) 50% 2/4 “It’s difficult to imagine an artist in any earlier period praising incomprehension as “a good thing.” Aside from a passing reference to the family of Sidonie’s Japanese publisher having “died in Hiroshima,” there is not much of substance here. ” – World Socialist Web Site May 30, 2024 Full Review Agent of Happiness (2024) 95% “Objectively speaking, the people in Bhutan are no happier than people anywhere else living in an economically unequal, unjust and oppressive society ... the responses ... are not so different than one would expect to find in any part of the world.” – World Socialist Web Site May 30, 2024 Full Review Heartless (2023) “The scenes between Heartless and her (real-life) widowed father are the strongest, most moving in the film. When he sees her attempting to mend a net, he grabs it out of her hands ... this unforgiving life is the opposite of what he wants for her.” – World Socialist Web Site May 30, 2024 Full Review Coup de Chance (2023) 83% “With extraordinary hypocrisy and dishonesty, Hollywood, well-known for its high ethical standards and sexual piety, has blacklisted Allen, along with French-Polish director Roman Polanski. ” – World Socialist Web Site May 30, 2024 Full Review Joan Baez I Am a Noise (2023) 94% “I Am a Noise sheds relatively little light on Baez’s artistic and social development, and what light it sheds on her inner life seems distorted. It is even less illuminating in regard to the period in which the singer came to prominence, the early 1960s.” – World Socialist Web Site Mar 29, 2024 Full Review Poor Things (2023) 93% “Bella comes to identify herself and her possibilities ... in accordance with Goethe’s notion that “Man knows himself only inasmuch as he knows the world … Each new object truly recognized, opens up a new organ within ourselves.”” – World Socialist Web Site Feb 2, 2024 Full Review Napoleon (2023) 58% “Napoleon is a shallow collection of impressions, “psychological” insight of the dime-store variety and brief battle scenes, which are not even presented so as to explain Napoleon’s military prowess.” – World Socialist Web Site Feb 2, 2024 Full Review Past Lives (2023) 95% “This is not a bad film, but it is an intensely and conspicuously middle class film.” – World Socialist Web Site Feb 2, 2024 Full Review May December (2023) 91% 2/4 “There are intriguing and subtle observations here about the self-centeredness of certain social layers, but not much more.” – World Socialist Web Site Dec 30, 2023 Full Review Between Two Worlds (2021) 79% 2/4 “Overall, although Between Two Worlds is sincere enough, it has a rather tepid, unadventurous character. The subject matter is worthwhile, but the film is hardly ground-breaking.” – World Socialist Web Site Nov 2, 2023 Full Review
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