Blink Twice (2024)
75%
“One of Kravitz’s major accomplishments in the movie is how she and the cinematographer, Adam Newport-Berra, make an island paradise feel like hell on Earth. ” –
The Atlantic
Dec 6, 2024
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Sorry/Not Sorry (2023)
82%
“Sorry/Not Sorry skates over much of this recent history without really analyzing it. ” –
The Atlantic
Jul 15, 2024
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Last Summer (2023)
86%
“Last Summer is my favorite of Breillat’s movies to date, because its allegiance to aesthetics collides with its story in a way that feels bracingly confrontational and unrepentant. ” –
The Atlantic
Jul 1, 2024
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The Contestant (2023)
92%
“What’s most remarkable about The Contestant now is how its subject managed to regain his faith in human nature, despite everything he endured.” –
The Atlantic
May 20, 2024
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The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)
95%
“It’s thrilling to be distracted by really good storytelling. But it’s more thrilling to be provoked, or even altered by it.” –
The Atlantic
Oct 16, 2023
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Anna Nicole Smith: You Don't Know Me (2023)
38%
“Smith’s life was sad, in many ways -- but it was also significant in so many other ways that this bumpy, questionable portrait doesn’t begin to unpack.” –
The Atlantic
May 24, 2023
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The Wonder (2022)
85%
“The blessing of The Wonder is how it acknowledges the things we most want to believe and still proposes, in the end, that human acts and faith in others can be the most miraculous things of all.” –
The Atlantic
Dec 1, 2022
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The Janes (2022)
100%
“The lesson from The Janes is that, in the absence of justice and political power, there's enormous potential for collective action. ” –
The Atlantic
Jun 30, 2022
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Four Hours at the Capitol (2021)
89%
“Four Hours lets its subjects speak without interjection or correction, a decision that seems to respect its audience's ability to reason out the logical gaps.” –
The Atlantic
Oct 22, 2021
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Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain (2021)
91%
“"I want to make a film about why he was who he was"... For the next two hours, Roadrunner seems to dodge all the parts of its subject's life that might offer concrete answers to Neville's question.” –
The Atlantic
Jul 26, 2021
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Lady Boss: The Jackie Collins Story (2021)
100%
“Lady Boss is piercing, snappy, and seemingly devoted to its subject, whose personal archives provide a trove of insight.” –
The Atlantic
Jun 28, 2021
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Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn (2019)
74%
“If the movie tends to dart around Cohn as a subject rather than fully expose him, it captures in emotional detail the enduring chaos and grief he inflicted on others.” –
Wall Street Journal
Jun 18, 2020
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Marc Maron: End Times Fun (2020)
71%
“It's consoling to watch Maron dismantle this particular moment in history so ruthlessly -- refusing to allow for the possibility of absolution, but still crankily taking the turmeric anyway.” –
The Atlantic
Mar 12, 2020
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Daniel Sloss: X (2019)
“Sloss knows that these confrontations are necessary, tedious, and painful. Rarely are they funny at all. That he manages to make X consistently so is a remarkable feat.” –
The Atlantic
Nov 6, 2019
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Downton Abbey (2019)
84%
“I, too, got swept up in this Disney-movie fantasia of benevolent, gracious aristocrats and their plucky servants all working together to... serve dinner to the king. Downton does that to you.” –
The Atlantic
Sep 16, 2019
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Share (2019)
83%
“In Barreto, a 21-year-old British unknown, Bianco has an actor who's persuasively ordinary as a teenager, but also totally hypnotic.” –
The Atlantic
Jul 29, 2019
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My Dad Wrote a Porno (2019)
“Accidental work of art? Yes. Successful crossover into mainstream culture? Affirmative... Belinda Blinked might secretly be an elaborate work of satire riffing on everything eroticized fiction does wrong.” –
The Atlantic
May 15, 2019
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At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal (2019)
100%
“What Carr manages to indict in the film is both a specific environment and a more general culture disinclined to believe what women say about their own body.” –
The Atlantic
May 3, 2019
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Brexit (2019)
80%
“That Graham has managed to make a functioning drama out of Brexit, let alone such a riveting one, feels a little bit miraculous.” –
The Atlantic
Feb 21, 2019
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Abducted in Plain Sight (2017)
74%
“It unpacks too many bizarre events in a short time frame to allow for much additional analysis. And the Broberg family, confessional to a fault, are primed more for honesty than for self-inspection.” –
The Atlantic
Feb 7, 2019
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Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists (2018)
100%
“Has the passionate, thunderous, and occasionally weepy tone of a good barroom eulogy.” –
The Atlantic
Jan 30, 2019
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Dumplin' (2018)
87%
“Dumplin' isn't a story that uses a skinny, conventionally pretty protagonist to pick apart a realm that rewards women exactly like her. It's more imaginative than that, open to the idea that beauty itself is more expansive and subjective.” –
The Atlantic
Dec 13, 2018
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Mitt (2014)
83%
“It's this ambivalence toward actually being President that comes across as one of the most revealing parts of Mitt.” –
The Washingtonian
Aug 22, 2018
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Minding the Gap (2018)
100%
“The emotional intelligence Liu, Keire, and Zack demonstrate in their moments of self-analysis is what leaves Minding the Gap ending with something a lot like hope.” –
The Atlantic
Aug 20, 2018
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Like Father (2018)
48%
“Clearly, given its algorithmic knowledge, Netflix knows things we don't... It doesn't quite explain why a film so willing to check all the comedy-cliché boxes would commit to humor least of all, particularly given how well standard fare can do.” –
The Atlantic
Aug 7, 2018
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