Youth (Spring) (2023)
86%
“Wang’s ambitions in this first part of a planned Zhili trilogy seem greater than just reminding Western audiences of the human cost behind the bargains on Shein.” –
Screen Slate
Oct 2, 2023
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The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
93%
“It's a Macbeth reliant instead on psychological darkness where longing and complacency are the real lurking spooks.” –
The Week
Dec 28, 2021
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Eternals (2021)
47%
“Eternals is an uncharacteristically sloppy misfire.” –
The Week
Nov 5, 2021
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The French Dispatch (2021)
75%
“I find that The French Dispatch is best appreciated like An Editor's Burial, as a collection of charming stories for the reader whose only interest is in that one all-important Andersonian question: What happens next?” –
The Week
Oct 22, 2021
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Dune (2021)
83%
“Perhaps it's not that Dune is cursed -- it's that we haven't managed to take its caution against hero-worship to heart: Villeneuve should have realized idolizing Herbert's story would only lead him astray.” –
The Week
Oct 14, 2021
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The Tale of King Crab (2021)
90%
“Like many of the best things in life, The Tale of King Crab owes its existence to a really good story, a little exaggeration, and the enthusiastic consumption of alcohol.” –
Screen Slate
Oct 10, 2021
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Lamb (2021)
86%
“There's no getting around it: Lamb is totally nuts. It seems destined to achieve a cult following.” –
The Week
Oct 8, 2021
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Bergman Island (2021)
84%
“[Bergman Island] will delight optimists and Bergman diehards both.” –
Screen Slate
Sep 24, 2021
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CODA (2021)
94%
“CODA isn't just authentic with its subjects in terms of their disability -- it's authentic with the treatment of their emotions, too.” –
The Week
Aug 13, 2021
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Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021)
91%
“Even if Roadrunner refrains from hagiography, never pulling back from the knotty puzzle of Bourdain, it also fails to fully grasp why the chef and storyteller meant so much to so many people.” –
The Week
Jul 19, 2021
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Black Widow (2021)
79%
“Without needing to be the "first" of anything this time around, Black Widow became something else: the first superhero movie I've loved in years -- no "female" qualifier needed.” –
The Week
Jul 8, 2021
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In the Heights (2021)
94%
“If you have any doubt about the theatrical movie-going experience, In the Heights is the film to assuage it. It's big, it's beautiful, and it'll make you believe.” –
The Week
May 21, 2021
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Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)
93%
“Raya and the Last Dragon isn't great because it's a glittery story of female empowerment that shows young girls that they can grow up to be heroes, too. It's great simply because it never expected them to be anything else.” –
The Week
Mar 6, 2021
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Cherry (2021)
37%
“Frenzied edits don't convey the characters' drug-addled agitation so much as they seem to expose directors who are never quite sure what they're doing with a shot.” –
The Week
Feb 25, 2021
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Summertime (1955)
92%
“Anchored by Katharine Hepburn giving one of her all-time great performances as a lonely American yearning for a "wonderful, mystical, magical miracle" in Venice, it is a surprisingly perfect celebration of the seasons of love.” –
The Week
Feb 17, 2021
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The Mauritanian (2021)
75%
“It would have been one thing for The Mauritanian to be a movie about legal rights, but the surreal torture sequence makes it something closer to protest art.” –
The Week
Feb 17, 2021
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Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
58%
“Wonder Woman 1984 doesn't pander or condescend to its female audience members, and for that I applaud it. But it does something that, upon reflection, is perhaps even more unforgivable: it shows little interest in them at all.” –
The Week
Dec 29, 2020
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
97%
“Watching Ma Rainey's Black Bottom is extraordinary, not just because it feels like a gift -- one last performance from Boseman, and his best yet -- but because it feels like a eulogy, too.” –
The Week
Dec 18, 2020
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Mank (2020)
83%
“Mank, more than it has any loyalty to accuracy, functions as Fincher's reminder of the responsibility of the movies, and the funny way moving images have of superseding the truth.” –
The Week
Dec 4, 2020
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Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square (2020)
64%
“Even when Parton is playing a character whose one-dimensional goodness would make you groan and roll your eyes if another actress were playing the part, she seems to actually believe her own words.” –
The Week
Nov 23, 2020
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Rebecca (2020)
37%
“It is so utterly an "airplane movie" in every respect that I almost recommend against watching it if you're on the ground... Wheatley's Rebecca is trashy and fun to look at, even if it might not stick with you beyond the tarmac.” –
The Week
Oct 21, 2020
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The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
89%
“While The Trial of Chicago 7 got lucky with its release date, the film's relevance is owed to the endurance of the belief it's trying to tear down.” –
The Week
Oct 19, 2020
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Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)
99%
“As upsetting as the topic might be, there is profound joy, humor, and humanity in the exercise of Dick Johnson Is Dead.” –
The Week
Oct 2, 2020
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Nomadland (2020)
93%
“Nomadland is a deeply internal and even mournful film in this regard, and asks its viewers to pause and reflect, like the listeners of a eulogy.” –
The Week
Sep 29, 2020
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She Dies Tomorrow (2020)
84%
“Most of us are well acquainted with anxiety... If I had to explain to an enviably pacific alien what precisely this feels like, I'd show them Amy Seimetz's sophomore feature, She Dies Tomorrow.” –
The Week
Aug 7, 2020
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