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Rebecca Harrison

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Biography:

I am a freelance film critic based in the UK. My main outlet is Sight & Sound, were I provide film reviews and festival coverage. Additionally, I have bylines for film-related content in Birth, Movies, Death; The New Statesman; Little White Lies; The Conversation; and The Mary Sue. In the past twelve months I've also begun working as a critic for BBC Scotland, with 온라인카지노추천 appearances and now regular reviewer appearances on BBC Radio Scotland's The Afternoon Show. Based on my work as a critic and film researcher I've been commissioned to write a book on The Empire Strikes Back for the British Film Institute's Film Classics Series.

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2073 (2024) 48% “While there’s much to admire in its form, 2073 leaves the viewer with the overwhelming sense that we’ve already run out of road.” – Sight & Sound Feb 22, 2025 Full Review My Stolen Planet (2024) “It’s not the violence that sparks the greatest emotional response. It’s the hope. It's the beauty of Sharifi's filmmaking, insisting that their story is told, and the Super-8 film that survives, moving those dancing women on and on through the ages.” – Writing on Reels Oct 27, 2024 Full Review The Balconettes (2024) 70% “Given that Merlant has important things to say (and that the film is in places very funny), The Balconettes is underwhelming. I wanted to like it. I wanted to love it. But for all its stylish art direction and smart cinematography, it didn’t move me.” – Writing on Reels Oct 27, 2024 Full Review Back to Black (2024) 35% “Like Winehouse herself, the film teeters on the edge, hovering restlessly between genre-subversive brilliance that complicates celebratory narratives about artistic genius, and well-worn, re-hashed tropes about tragic women. ” – Sight & Sound Apr 21, 2024 Full Review Cat Person (2023) 46% “A messy adaptation that never commits to its central argument and does a disservice to the younger audience that it’s striving to reach. The filmmakers may have done all the background reading, but nevertheless spectacularly missed the point.” – Sight & Sound Apr 21, 2024 Full Review Celluloid Underground (2023) 100% “Khoshbakht’s personal insights are what make Celluloid Underground really sing, reassuring us that the idea of cinema and its power to make us feel will remain, even after we are gone. ” – Sight & Sound Apr 21, 2024 Full Review Shabu (2021) 91% “Culminating in a carnival-esque party for the local residents, Shabu tells a story about what it means to say sorry and do the right thing by the people that matter – and that’s something many of us could learn from, no matter our age.” – Sight & Sound Apr 21, 2024 Full Review Polite Society (2023) 91% “Polite Society playfully expands the parameters of the kitchen-sink family melodrama, wresting the kitchen sink from the wall and throwing it full force at the audience.” – Sight & Sound Jun 8, 2023 Full Review Call Jane (2022) 82% “If Call Jane’s narrative is largely paint-by-numbers, its closing scene eschews narrative conventions. We are left with names, circumstances, the then-as-now cries for help, and the knowledge that there is so much more still to burn.” – Sight & Sound Dec 17, 2022 Full Review Meet Me in the Bathroom (2022) 74% “For fans of 00s post-punk, Meet Me in the Bathroom’s intimate archive footage will scratch a nostalgic itch. But given that the film trades on the spectacle of pain rather than saying anything meaningful about it, I couldn’t help asking, ‘Is this it?’” – Sight & Sound Oct 18, 2022 Full Review She Said (2022) 88% “As the camera lingers on the dreadful scenes of an abuser’s hotel room, women’s voices fill the space he once inhabited. Survivors become bigger, louder, and more powerful, with their own enduring cinematic legacy.” – Sight & Sound Oct 18, 2022 Full Review Girls Can't Surf (2020) 100% “Girls Can’t Surf makes for a bittersweet historical record that will ensure women surfers’ contributions to the sport are never wiped out.” – Sight & Sound Sep 9, 2022 Full Review Bullet Train (2022) 53% “It’s a shame that the filmmakers didn’t trust the spatial and dramatic tensions provided by the train journey, and opted instead for seen-it-all-before spectacle.” – Sight & Sound Sep 9, 2022 Full Review True Things (2021) 79% “An uneasy psychological character study, the film brings the audience tantalisingly close to its protagonist and has them share her experiences of joy, depression and grief. ” – Sight & Sound Jul 20, 2022 Full Review Railway Children (2022) 57% “If young people can cope with war they can surely understand the complexities of their own identities and pasts. It’s a shame, then, that the film goes so hard on pushing the myth of a progressive England that it sells its audience short.” – Sight & Sound Jul 20, 2022 Full Review House of Gucci (2021) 62% “The film is a tragi-comic triumph of operatic proportions. Thanks in no small part to stand-out star Lady Gaga, House of Gucci has made melodrama fashionable again.” – Sight & Sound Nov 25, 2021 Full Review Limbo (2020) 93% “Look beyond your limited worldview, Limbo says, and see the bigger, more beautiful, and more complicated picture.” – Sight & Sound Nov 2, 2021 Full Review Clueless (1995) 81% “With a huge impact on popular culture thanks to its fashion, performances, and stand-out soundtrack, Clueless is far smarter and wittier in its commentary on gender and class than its title would have you think.” – The Afternoon Show Aug 27, 2020 Full Review Tenet (2020) 70% “Tenet is a complex and yet deceptively simple film that has the capacity to leave you loving and loathing it at the same time. As it is so hellbent on telling us: yes, we can have it both ways.” – Screen Queens Aug 27, 2020 Full Review Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) 64% “A tedious and entirely predictable film that in spite of its super-sonic hedgehog lead manages to feel dull and slow. A wasted Jim Carey fails to save a movie in which none of the characters inspires any sympathy.” – The Afternoon Show Aug 27, 2020 Full Review Vivarium (2020) 73% “A postmodern mash-up of genres and aesthetic styles, Vivarium is a suburban horror story ideal for our capitalist - and pandemic - age.” – The Afternoon Show Aug 27, 2020 Full Review The Perfect Candidate (2019) 93% “A powerful film about systems of oppression and personal emancipation with glorious cinematography and a stand-out lead performance.” – The Afternoon Show Aug 27, 2020 Full Review Little Women (2019) 95% “A warm-hearted adaptation that sees the talented Gerwig directing with a keen eye for the parallels between women's lives in the 19th and 21st centuries. With stand-out performances from a wonderful cast, this is a charming and fresh take on Little Women.” – The Afternoon Show Dec 19, 2019 Full Review The Two Popes (2019) 88% “A surprisingly humorous film that reflects on power and how people use and abuse it, The Two Popes delivers stand-out performances from Hopkins and Pryce while never quite succeeding in shedding the feeling of an over-long stage play.” – The Afternoon Show Dec 19, 2019 Full Review Honey Boy (2019) 95% “Alma Har'el's exquisite direction creates dreamy transitions between Otis's past and present in a meditation on cinema's power both to trigger and to heal.” – The Afternoon Show Dec 19, 2019 Full Review
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