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Devika Girish

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I am an Indian freelance film critic based in Los Angeles. I contribute regularly to Film Comment Magazine and have also written for publications such as the (erstwhile) Village Voice, Reverse Shot, MUBI? Notebook, Fandor, Vague Visages, Kinoscope, SVLLYWOOD, and Film Companion. Additionally, I edit the online arts-and-culture magazine Ampersand. I grew up in Nagpur, in central India, and moved to the U.S. to study film. My criticism is deeply influenced by my transatlantic experiences? I like to explore issues of politics, identity, and postcoloniality through my film writing. I am an alum of the 2017 NYFF Critics Academy and one of 8 critics selected for the Berlinale Talents program at the upcoming Berlin International Film Festival. I have also forayed into audio criticism? last December, my audio story? Demystifying Bollywood? won the L.A. Press Club? National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Award for soft news feature--radio.

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Twice Colonized (2023) 100% “If it can feel haphazard and narratively unsatisfying at times, it’s also thrilling in the way it matches Peter’s rhythms, refusing to sand down her defiant complexity.” – New York Times Jul 12, 2024 Full Review The Young Wife (2023) 90% “These are familiar, even hackneyed themes, which make the film’s relentless theatrics feel gratuitous and somewhat exhausting. Style overpowers substance, though Poe’s fantastic eye for composition and Clemons’s vivacious screen presence are undeniable.” – New York Times May 31, 2024 Full Review Egoist (2022) 73% “As the film leans into melodrama, it loses both its friction and frisson, and a steaming-hot premise turns into something cold to the touch.” – New York Times Apr 19, 2024 Full Review Marriage Story (2019) 95% “Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson's performances and charm make this film intensely watchable.” – Firstpost Mar 26, 2024 Full Review Shirley (2024) 74% “A drama that is too content with telling rather than showing.” – New York Times Mar 21, 2024 Full Review The Space Race (2023) 88% “For the most part, “The Space Race” doesn’t quite interrogate these tokenizing narratives, leaving the central question unaddressed: Can the glorified achievements of a few result in change for the many?” – New York Times Feb 14, 2024 Full Review Tully (2018) 87% “There’s a calculated precision to both Reitman’s direction and Cody’s screenplay. The film is perfectly paced and cut, and moves with a rat-a-tat rhythm; the writing is sharp and specific, with a zinger in every other line.” – Vague Visages Feb 6, 2024 Full Review The Feeling of Being Watched (2018) 94% “Unlike many documentaries of its ilk, The Feeling of Being Watched is not weighed down by doomsaying or sensationalism; instead, the picture it paints of community organization is genuinely hopeful.” – Vague Visages Feb 6, 2024 Full Review Disobedience (2017) 84% “Esti plunges herself into the terrifying uncertain place between obedience and disobedience, and it is her courage to stay there — to be defiantly out-of-sync — that powers Lelio’s arresting film.” – Vague Visages Feb 6, 2024 Full Review Lemonade (2018) 90% “Lemonade makes palpable the psychological experience of immigration and the constant, self-effacing guardedness it encourages.” – Vague Visages Feb 6, 2024 Full Review The Breaking Ice (2023) 91% “A film that, in its best moments, feels as light and refreshing as a cool breeze.” – New York Times Jan 18, 2024 Full Review First Reformed (2017) 94% “...a purposeful tackiness that somehow befits the issue of the earth’s disintegration...” – Vague Visages Dec 6, 2023 Full Review Against the Tide (2023) 95% ““Against the Tide, ” Sarvnik Kaur’s breathtaking documentary about Indigenous fishermen in Mumbai, India, dispels the myth that cinematic beauty has to do with the power of the camera or the glossiness of the image.” – New York Times Nov 25, 2023 Full Review The Disappearance of Shere Hite (2023) 100% “Nicole Newnham’s film recoups Hite’s story from the margins of feminist history with both style and substance, taking its cue from its subject.” – New York Times Nov 16, 2023 Full Review To Kill a Tiger (2022) 100% ““To Kill a Tiger” is a film bristling with such invigorating defiance.” – New York Times Oct 19, 2023 Full Review Radical Wolfe (2023) 68% “Richard Dewey’s staid, by-the-book documentary can hardly match the flair with which Wolfe lived and wrote.” – New York Times Sep 14, 2023 Full Review The First Year (1972) “Guzmán’s documentary is a people’s microhistory of a nation in transition.” – New York Times Sep 7, 2023 Full Review Shortcomings (2023) 85% “The movie is funny and touching, with a star-making performance by Min and a script full of lovely, self-aware little touches...” – New York Times Aug 3, 2023 Full Review The Water (2022) 100% ““El Agua” succeeds as a portrait of the village’s traditions, both manual and cultural, brought to life by a largely nonprofessional cast.” – New York Times Jul 27, 2023 Full Review While We Watched (2022) 91% “Kumar’s humility and eloquence ensure that the film never slips into hagiography — instead, it lingers as a lament and a battle cry.” – New York Times Jul 20, 2023 Full Review Anthem (2023) 63% “Where the film’s archival footage demonstrates the limits of respectability politics, Anthem ends up being overly respectable -- and inevitably reductive.” – New York Times Jun 29, 2023 Full Review The Stroll (2023) 95% “It’s the rare movie that allows transgender sex workers to speak for themselves without sanitizing or sensationalizing their experiences.” – New York Times Jun 22, 2023 Full Review Users (2021) 56% “The film is at its best when it allows its images and sounds to let us feel things without naming them.” – New York Times Jun 8, 2023 Full Review Winter Boy (2022) 77% ““Winter Boy” shines when it allows its actors to quietly play out family dynamics, with Lacoste, Binoche and especially Kircher wearing the many shades of grief with effortless, endearing naturalism.” – New York Times Apr 27, 2023 Full Review Trenque Lauquen: Part II (2022) 100% ““Trenque Lauquen” undermines the hubris of discovery — a distinctly masculine impulse, and a narrative principle we often take for granted.” – New York Times Apr 20, 2023 Full Review
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