Joan Juliet Buck
Joan Juliet Buck's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
The Blue Kite (1993)
100%
“The film is remarkable, particularly for the intense, relived quality of daily life.” –
Vogue
Feb 29, 2024
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The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (1993)
96%
“The movie star who embodied the ideals of a nation hungry for myth and then became one of the prime creators and promoters of that myth, Leni Riefenstahl is the most fascinating and weirdly engaging monster ever recorded on film.” –
Vogue
Feb 29, 2024
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The Hudsucker Proxy (1994)
64%
“The film doesn't have anything you'd recognize as content, but it is as precisely made as a wonderful machine, funny in a mode of zany giddiness, and boasts both a German expressionist sensibility and an angel who smokes a cigar. ” –
Vogue
Feb 29, 2024
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Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
92%
“Hugh Grant and Andie MacDowell are charmingly almost believable; Kristin Scott Thomas is catty and sly as a best-dressed, lovelorn rich girl; and Simon Callow breaks through the screen with a merry selection of waistcoats and an air of enjoying himself.” –
Vogue
Feb 29, 2024
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Thelma & Louise (1991)
86%
“Ridley Scott has managed, through cliché, through seductions of landscape, and through two extraordinary performances, to make a load of a hooey with feminist icing into a noble black odyssey that... everyone in Hollywood has been waiting for. ” –
Vogue
Mar 2, 2023
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Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
90%
“This is a rare and moving film about marriage, divorce, child custody, and changing sex roles. It is also a film above love. ” –
Vogue
Aug 5, 2022
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Mississippi Masala (1991)
92%
“Nair's movie is good-hearted and optimistic; it has an off-kilter charm, because it is as much about displacement and homesickness as it is about love.” –
Vogue
Apr 13, 2022
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The Joy Luck Club (1993)
86%
“This may sound complicated, but Wayne Wang's tour de force is not only in telling the separate stories so that they are powerfully distinct but in perfectly orchestrating the performances of an astonishing cast of women.” –
Vogue
Dec 17, 2020
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