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Ken Eisner

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What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) 90% “This emphasis on character and texture is full of pleasurable rewards-especially when the astonishing DiCaprio is on-screen-and there's enough growth and compassion to keep it from being a Diane Arbus freak show come to life.” – Georgia Straight Mar 22, 2021 Full Review “Although it starts out engagingly enough, King of the Ants can't decide whether it wants to be a horror flick, a neo-noir crime caper, or psychological thriller with slasher inclinations. The genre confusion is fatal.” – Variety Aug 21, 2020 Full Review Keepers of the Magic (2016) “An endlessly fascinating, if initially somewhat disorganized, tour of key image makers of the past 50 years.” – Georgia Straight Jun 17, 2020 Full Review Listen Up Philip (2014) 82% “An odd vagueness of intention dissipates the energy of this initially bracing study of a novelist.” – Georgia Straight May 6, 2020 Full Review Beanpole (2019) 93% “The movie's fluid camerawork, set detail, and deeply saturated greens and shocking reds help mitigate the gloom. And the acting is top-notch, especially considering that most of the players are non-professionals.” – Georgia Straight Mar 13, 2020 Full Review To Live to Sing (2019) 100% “It's essentially a "let's put on a show to save our beloved roller rink" story, given fresh life in a classical setting. Mainly, it gives us a chance to observe the quirky relationships between the players.” – Georgia Straight Mar 12, 2020 Full Review The Whistlers (2019) 83% “A delightful mixtape of a movie you'll want to whistle along with more than once.” – Georgia Straight Mar 12, 2020 Full Review Hope Gap (2019) 63% “There's considerable wit on display, but little in the way of character detail and background that would distinguish this marital breakdown from countless others.” – Georgia Straight Mar 12, 2020 Full Review Sorry We Missed You (2019) 88% “For Ken Loach, now 82 but still tirelessly documenting the underclass, indentured servitude is a subject that never gets old, since it constantly assumes new forms.” – Georgia Straight Mar 5, 2020 Full Review Greed (2019) 50% “It's a testimony to Coogan's comic talents and our unhealthy fascination with unbridled wealth that we somehow keep rooting for the guy, even as every layer of the monetary onion is pulled back by writer-director Michael Winterbottom.” – Georgia Straight Mar 5, 2020 Full Review I Was at Home, But (2019) 88% “Too much of this stilted installation piece is like a Jeff Wall photograph come to life, delivering details that mostly prove to be less interesting than what your imagination would have supplied.” – Georgia Straight Mar 5, 2020 Full Review Vitalina Varela (2019) 95% “Everyone is hitting their marks just so, in order to create the perfect doorway silhouette and such -- the kind of thing that has vast power in a still photograph but somehow loses its magic when you see exactly what went into it.” – Georgia Straight Mar 5, 2020 Full Review The Twentieth Century (2019) 95% “90 whirligig minutes of confusingly titled cinematic madness for the fatally discriminating viewer.” – Georgia Straight Feb 27, 2020 Full Review The Jesus Rolls (2019) 20% “There are perhaps worse ideas than spinning off side characters from the Coen brothers' cult fave The Big Lebowski. But why it needed to be hair-netted bowling bully Jesus Quintana is known only to John Turturro.” – Georgia Straight Feb 27, 2020 Full Review EMMA. (2020) 86% “The two-hour tale lurches from farce to darkish social satire to thoughtful character study with few indicators that the main narrative can support that kind of carriage-shifting.” – Georgia Straight Feb 27, 2020 Full Review Ordinary Love (2019) 93% “It's startling how many tones, textures, and rhythms the filmmakers find within a narrow range of settings... This adds up to a surprisingly fleet 90 minutes, although the film's satisfying pull is ultimately down to the leads.” – Georgia Straight Feb 20, 2020 Full Review Botero (2018) 75% “Makes a pretty good case for taking the artist more seriously. For one thing, his political art gets a necessary airing here.” – Georgia Straight Feb 18, 2020 Full Review Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) 97% “Céline Sciamma, who previously assayed more contemporary studies with Tomboy and Girlhood, here strikes the perfect balance between smart social parable, formal composition, and soulful contemplation of the tools -- and limits -- of art itself.” – Georgia Straight Feb 13, 2020 Full Review The Assistant (2019) 93% “It's just one person going through the motions in an unspecified place and time. But The Assistant speaks eloquently to the Right Now.” – Georgia Straight Feb 13, 2020 Full Review The Traitor (2019) 86% “A satisfying saga from the great Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio... First and foremost, the film benefits from the riveting performance of Pierfrancesco Favino.” – Georgia Straight Feb 6, 2020 Full Review 2020 Oscar Nominated Shorts - Documentary (2020) 100% “Viewers of this Oscar program should listen to a girl in that opening skateboarding flick, who advises, "Don't act fragile. This is a place for tough people!"” – Georgia Straight Feb 4, 2020 Full Review 2020 Oscar Nominated Shorts - Live Action (2020) 89% “Many forms of sibling fealty are tested in this gratifyingly consistent batch of scripted shorts, clocking in at roughly 20 solid minutes each.” – Georgia Straight Feb 3, 2020 Full Review Corpus Christi (2019) 98% “Corpus Christi is surprisingly entertaining, sometimes funny fare, with a soft colour palette, smart dialogue, and enough graceful repose to provoke deeper thought.” – Georgia Straight Jan 30, 2020 Full Review Quezon's Game (2018) 45% “Limits to the budget and acting ability dampen its vision, but the script is surprisingly frank about the island-packed country's rocky road to independence.” – Georgia Straight Jan 30, 2020 Full Review 2020 Oscar Nominated Shorts - Animation (2020) 95% “With any luck, this curiously uneven program will be capped by the terrific "Maestro", a French-made two minutes of Italian opera performed by nocturnal forest animals.” – Georgia Straight Jan 30, 2020 Full Review
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