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Flow (2024) 97% “The fluidity of life runs through Flow, a marvelous animated movie from Latvia.” – NPR Mar 1, 2025 Full Review I'm Still Here (2024) 97% “It's one measure of Latin America's arduous history that it has spawned so many books and movies about dictatorship... What they share is the awareness that history hurts. Few films have shown this with more delicate intelligence than I'm Still Here.” – NPR Feb 11, 2025 Full Review Babygirl (2024) 76% “Babygirl's problem is not Romy's desire to be dominated. It's making her erotic liberation so triumphant that the story's sexual politics don't matter.” – NPR Jan 8, 2025 Full Review Emilia Pérez (2024) 72% “Although Saldana has never been better, the movie finally belongs to Gascon. Knowing this story from the inside, she gives Emilia and the yearning Manitas a gravity and conflicted complexity the story doesn't always earn.” – NPR Nov 13, 2024 Full Review A Real Pain (2024) 96% “Eisenberg uses this cockeyed version of a road movie to tell a funny, moving, casually profound story about family, friendship, the weight of the Jewish past, the weight of everyone’s past and the different ways one deals with suffering.” – NPR Oct 30, 2024 Full Review Wolfs (2024) 67% “Clooney and Pitt are such deft, charismatic actors that, even in a lazy, low-key picture like this one, you get a lot of pleasure from their barbed asides and mocking silences. It’s clear why they’ve been stars for three decades.” – NPR Oct 4, 2024 Full Review ¡CASA BONITA MI AMOR! (2024) 100% “The movie’s a treat, weaving together great archival footage, excerpts from South Park and Elvis’ movie Fun in Acapulco, plus countless scenes of Parker and Stone’s amused horror.” – NPR Sep 16, 2024 Full Review Bright Lights, Big City (1988) 57% “For despite its glitzy subject matter, the story is utterly conventional. ” – L.A. Weekly Aug 21, 2024 Full Review Beetlejuice (1988) 83% “Here [Burton] encourages Michael Keaton to strut his stuff, and this crack comic actor gives Beetlejuice the kind of quicksilver lift that can only come from actors, never from effects. ” – L.A. Weekly Aug 21, 2024 Full Review The Instigators (2024) 41% “Back in the 1970s, The Instigators would probably have been the second or third best movie coming out on any given week. In 2024, it’s Hollywood’s best movie this month, at least for viewers who don’t marvel at Marvel.” – NPR Aug 9, 2024 Full Review Aliens (1986) 94% “A noisy, hectoring, mechanical piece of filmmaking. It beats you like a drum, but there's no resonance.” – L.A. Weekly Jul 30, 2024 Full Review Twisters (2024) 75% “[Powell is] a confident actor who seems to think there’s an Academy Award for Smugness. That’s not a swipe, at least not completely. Carrying himself like a movie star in a world of extras, he boasts the energy and charisma to make the love story work.” – NPR Jul 19, 2024 Full Review Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara (2023) 86% “Now, at moments Kidnapped feels old-fashioned. Yet Bellocchio never falls into boring costume drama realism. Working in a painterly style, he pushes things toward the operatic.” – NPR May 31, 2024 Full Review Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023) 97% “Clocking in at a resolutely unboring two hours and 40 minutes, the movie crackles with brains, obscenity, political anger and jokes that had me laughing out loud.” – NPR Mar 22, 2024 Full Review Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) 92% “Although it promises to be a frothy tour de force, this Mike Newell movie can't live up to its formal conceit. It cheats on its premise and falls back on the most sodden sodden clichés of English comedy.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 29, 2024 Full Review Quiz Show (1994) 97% “Bouncy and enjoyable, the movie is Robert Redford's best work in over a decade, and it's not hard to understand why. How could a blond icon like Redford not be fascinated by the tale of his alter ego, a disgraced golden boy like Van Doren?” – Vogue Feb 13, 2024 Full Review Natural Born Killers (1994) 51% “A big, dazzling, monstrously violent comedy that is probably the most extreme movie ever made in Hollywood. Psychedelic and assaultive, it's like a fever dream snatched from the skull of Charles Manson.” – Vogue Feb 13, 2024 Full Review Tótem (2023) 97% “Avilés moves from character to character with enormous delicacy, revealing gossamer threads of personal connection and, like a crack portraitist, catching faces at their most revealing.” – NPR Jan 25, 2024 Full Review Anselm (2023) 98% “Anselm offers both a thrilling portrait of the artist at work and, with the aid of terrific archival footage, lets us see what infuses his work with such intensity.” – NPR Dec 7, 2023 Full Review R.M.N. (2022) 97% “In its furious disputes over immigration, vanishing jobs, nationalism and enlightenment values, R.M.N. depicts a reality that, like it or not, hits very close to home.” – NPR's Fresh Air Dec 6, 2023 Full Review Fallen Leaves (2023) 97% “A sentimental tale saved from soppiness by its rigorously dry style.” – NPR Nov 27, 2023 Full Review Hard-Boiled (1992) 92% “Director John Woo's fifth collaboration with Hong Kong superstar Chow Yun-Fat is so deliriously action-packed that it verges on, and sometimes succumbs to, self-parody.” – L.A. Weekly Jul 27, 2023 Full Review The Color Purple (1985) 73% “As an admirer of [Steven Spielberg's] earlier work, I have been waiting for him to stretch his talent... In The Color Purple he tries to tell an adult story, and the result is one of the most embarrassing and spacious movies in years. ” – L.A. Weekly May 25, 2023 Full Review The Night of the 12th (2022) 94% “Focusing on a single, real-life murder investigation she covers, Moll has created a film that keeps looking like the conventional police procedural that it actually isn't.” – NPR May 17, 2023 Full Review How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022) 95% “The abiding flaw of political movies is that the filmmakers are so busy promoting their beliefs they forget to make a good movie. How to Blow Up a Pipeline doesn't fall into that trap.” – NPR Apr 12, 2023 Full Review
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