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Forrest Cardamenis

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Rei (2024) 80% B “The actors sell the big emotional beats, and nobody could accuse Tanaka of being unclear in a quieter sequence or failing to undersell the film’s numerous shifts in tone. ” – The Film Stage Feb 7, 2024 Full Review Shadow of Fire (2023) 86% B- “Just as Shadow of Fire is at its best when its setting is more constrained, Tsukamoto is at his most resourceful when he has less to work with.” – The Film Stage Feb 2, 2024 Full Review Dunkirk (2017) 92% “Dunkirk, like Interstellar before it, fails not because it errs too far in one direction, but because of the same fundamental flaw — Nolan is not a gifted enough filmmaker to justify these films' more demanding conceits.” – Vague Visages Dec 6, 2023 Full Review The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) 93% “Working for the first time without his brother Ethan, Coen's film adaptation, featuring Denzel Washington as Macbeth, embraces the text with unusual faithfulness.” – Hyperallergic Jan 4, 2022 Full Review Uppercase Print (2020) 83% “Uppercase Print (and Jude's work more generally) succeeds because of its specificity, which never falls into didacticism or condescension.” – Hyperallergic Jan 4, 2022 Full Review Bulletproof (2020) 100% “Chandler's filmmaking betrays nothing.” – Hyperallergic Nov 8, 2021 Full Review The Velvet Underground (2021) 98% “With dense split-screen use of period artifacts and a killer Velvets soundtrack, Todd Haynes's documentary is a loving tribute to his favorite band.” – Hyperallergic Oct 18, 2021 Full Review Heimat is a Space in Time (2019) 100% “It is both aesthetically daring and narratively riveting, and the film maintains this feeling for the nearly three hours that follow.” – Hyperallergic Feb 28, 2020 Full Review Young Ahmed (2019) 58% “The Dardennes can't be bothered to gesture toward systemic and institutional factors that affect this community.” – Hyperallergic Feb 28, 2020 Full Review Zombi Child (2019) 85% “An insightful critique of colonialism and an exploration of the contradictions that liberalism and history create for liberty and revolution.” – Hyperallergic Feb 28, 2020 Full Review The Wild Goose Lake (2019) 91% “Wild Goose is as sly and serious as a classic noir, all flashbacks and fatalism punctuated by cigarette breaks and romps through seedy alleyways, scheming lovers, and a seemingly endless array of double-crossings.” – Hyperallergic Feb 28, 2020 Full Review The Irishman (2019) 95% “It...forces us to reconsider a body of work that is far more expansive than it is often given credit for by changing the template of his previous mob films and foregrounding questions of aging both in its text and its production.” – MUBI Dec 12, 2019 Full Review Joker (2019) 68% “Joker is replete with the signifiers of great cinema, all dialed up so heavily that they could denote parody if the film were not so serious.” – MUBI Oct 8, 2019 Full Review Hotel by the River (2018) 96% “Hotel by the River is undoubtedly a quiet film, but only appears gentle because its characters, equal parts depraved and deprived, lack the honesty or emotional freedom to avert, even acknowledge, tragedy.” – MUBI Mar 8, 2019 Full Review Risk (2016) 80% “A living, breathing portrait of a filmmaker and journalist struggling to compartmentalize-a self-portrait by necessity.” – Brooklyn Magazine May 5, 2017 Full Review A Tale of Love and Darkness (2015) 72% “A Tale of Love and Darkness might not say quite what it wants to, but that's because it has so much on its mind.” – Brooklyn Magazine Aug 16, 2016 Full Review My King (2015) 72% “My King is a reminder that even stories of the grandest, most exuberant aspects of life sometimes find truth in the smallest of details.” – Brooklyn Magazine Aug 11, 2016 Full Review Europa Report (2013) 81% B “Despite tried-and-true formula (technical failure, one-by-one pick-offs, etc.), a number of creative enhancements make for an original and appropriately-scaled film.” – The Film Stage Jun 29, 2016 Full Review The Bronze (2015) 37% “[The Bronze has] a tendency not to create a universe and drama, but to impose events, however unlikely and incongruous they may be, to fulfill a pre-determined arc.” – Brooklyn Magazine Jun 28, 2016 Full Review Cemetery of Splendor (2015) 97% “Apichatpong's unique breed of not-quite Magical Realism, then, enables his politics, rather than vice-versa. Even so, those who have trouble with Apichatpong's unusual formalism can grasp something more tangible this time around.” – Brooklyn Magazine Jun 28, 2016 Full Review Wiener-Dog (2016) 74% “Though Solondz ultimately fails to provide the insight that once came with horrifying ease, the visibility of his struggle is its own form of honesty.” – Brooklyn Magazine Jun 24, 2016 Full Review Child of God (2013) 42% B “Child of God toes the line between success and failure - but, ultimately, leans into success, and occasionally threatens to leap into it entirely.” – The Film Stage Jun 23, 2016 Full Review Captain Phillips (2013) 93% B- “Captain Phillips may be a thinly scoped story with tried-and-true themes, but the acting turns it into a surprisingly captivating story of heroism.” – The Film Stage Jun 23, 2016 Full Review Omar (2013) 90% C- “Omar is an obvious political thriller which consistently, insistently attempts to steer us in a particular direction.” – The Film Stage Jun 22, 2016 Full Review A Touch of Sin (2013) 95% B+ “The wuxia killings elevate A Touch of Sin into the territory of great revenge pictures, even as its ideology proves less than discernible.” – The Film Stage Jun 22, 2016 Full Review
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