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Janet Smith

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Crash (1996) 64% “The film is still eerily prescient about the way technology numbs us. Some of Crash's near-surgical aesthetic and harder-edged sex feel more stuck in the '90s. But the fetishized car culture? It's still very much with us.” – Georgia Straight Aug 18, 2020 Full Review Arab Blues (2020) 92% “Selma, so magnetically inhabited by Farahani, is a very different kind of female character than we're used to seeing from the Arab world: strong, complex, happy to be single, and equal parts wry, smart, and anxious.” – Georgia Straight Jul 30, 2020 Full Review Piano to Zanskar (2018) 100% “The result is a breathtakingly shot journey where the piano seems in constant peril.” – Georgia Straight Jul 27, 2020 Full Review Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful (2020) 78% “As this spirited bio pic reveals, the reality of the man and his work is infinitely more complex. Like sex itself, it's complicated.” – Georgia Straight Jul 20, 2020 Full Review American Woman (2019) 57% “Chau is strong enough to bring a compelling new perspective to this bizarre chapter of history -- and to the entire idea of the identity of the "American woman".” – Georgia Straight Jul 6, 2020 Full Review Landfall (2020) 92% “Aldarondo's impressionistic, kaleidoscopic take offers a more accurate picture of the chaos than any standard narrated documentary ever could.” – Georgia Straight Jun 12, 2020 Full Review Birth Wars (2019) “Aside from capturing the miracle of birth from every possible angle, the film offers an unfussy, keenly observed look at a messy situation.” – Georgia Straight Jun 12, 2020 Full Review Forget Me Not (2019) “Social strictures leave a legacy of pain that forever links child and parent, and you'll feel it viscerally long after the film ends.” – Georgia Straight Jun 12, 2020 Full Review The King of Staten Island (2020) 76% “Maybe it's just that the film has caught the same laid-back listlessness of its antihero, refusing to work too hard for laughs. There's heart here, but not a lot of energy.” – Georgia Straight Jun 10, 2020 Full Review “The poetic, mystical touches that have made B.C. Métis artist Marie Clements's plays so striking find vivid new expression on film.” – Georgia Straight Mar 12, 2020 Full Review Lie Exposed (2020) 0% “Lie Exposed is ambitious, but it's never quite as shocking, raw, or life-changing as it wants to be. The overall impression, to steal from Lana Del Rey, is beautiful people with beautiful problems.” – Georgia Straight Mar 5, 2020 Full Review One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk (2019) “A slow, blackly comic, and intensely important study in all that got lost in translation.” – Georgia Straight Feb 27, 2020 Full Review 1917 (2019) 88% “A picture that blends the surreal nightmarescape of Apocalypse Now with the journey-quest of Saving Private Ryan, torqued up by a race against time -- and, of course, by the rush of watching the filmmakers pull this off on a sheer technical level.” – Georgia Straight Jan 13, 2020 Full Review And the Birds Rained Down (2019) 89% “Louise Archambault's gently paced and unexpectedly deep new film has a kind of tenderness you don't often experience in the movies.” – Georgia Straight Jan 9, 2020 Full Review Klaus (2019) 95% “A gritty origin story probably isn't on a lot of people's wish list this holiday season.” – Georgia Straight Nov 6, 2019 Full Review The King (2019) 71% “It's brutal, deglamorized, and horrifyingly spectacular.” – Georgia Straight Oct 31, 2019 Full Review For Sama (2019) 98% “This isn't polished stuff...but no other documentary out there has captured the human cost of the Syrian crisis with such clarity.” – Georgia Straight Oct 16, 2019 Full Review Fast Color (2018) 83% “It's a strange and enticing mix: a superhero origin story and sci-fi paranormal effects mix with apocalyptic allegory.” – Georgia Straight Aug 15, 2019 Full Review The Queen (1968) 96% “The movie is by turns a historic document, a milestone of queer filmmaking...” – Georgia Straight Aug 14, 2019 Full Review Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable (2018) 73% “Hamilton is a fearless risk-taker...the film about her? Not so much.” – Georgia Straight Jul 26, 2019 Full Review Anna (2019) 34% “Anna looks Euro-slick, but feels like a creepy showcase for the director's own fetishes.” – Georgia Straight Jun 28, 2019 Full Review Black Mother (2018) 97% “A viscerally poetic portrait of a country that's full of contradictions.” – Georgia Straight May 21, 2019 Full Review Poms (2019) 36% “While there are a few touching strides for senior sisterhood here, many of the women are too faintly sketched to avoid stereotypes.” – Georgia Straight May 16, 2019 Full Review Pomelo (2018) “Rubble has never been shot so beautifully, the directors finding a kind of moving poetry in the chaos here...” – Georgia Straight May 8, 2019 Full Review Toxic Beauty (2019) 100% “By the end of the hard-hitting, wide-ranging exposé, you'll understand the fuller implications of words you already know-phthalates, parabens, endocrine disruptors.” – Georgia Straight May 4, 2019 Full Review
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