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Spencer Kornhaber

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A Complete Unknown (2024) 82% “Timothée Chalamet does excellent work striking Dylan’s balance of unworldliness and humanity. Yet no movie about unconventionality should be as blandly conventional as this one is.” – The Atlantic Dec 28, 2024 Full Review Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) 31% “The musical performances are underpowered, lacking much movement, personality, or surprise. In fact, the film’s problems are so glaring that one can’t help but wonder about what happened behind the scenes.” – The Atlantic Oct 4, 2024 Full Review NBC's Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony in IMAX (2024) 43% “The energy was low, the pacing bizarre, and the execution patchy. Paris tried to project itself as a modern, inclusive hub of excitement -- but it mostly just seemed exhausted.” – The Atlantic Aug 2, 2024 Full Review This Is Me... Now: A Love Story (2024) 75% “As in so many superhero movies, the overall effect is hyperactive yet deadened, causing the viewer’s gaze to bounce off the screen rather than be drawn into it.” – The Atlantic Feb 19, 2024 Full Review Tár (2022) 91% “Tár’s mostly riveting two-and-a-half-hour saga turned out to be oddly clarifying. The film does tell its story in an elliptical, at times confounding way, but that stylistic choice shouldn’t be mistaken for moral indecision.” – The Atlantic Nov 21, 2022 Full Review Fire Island (2022) 94% “The film uses cliché and wackiness cleverly, as a cover for bittersweet realism.” – The Atlantic Jun 3, 2022 Full Review Mayor Pete (2021) 71% “Mayor Pete ends up suggesting that his alleged roboticism, and all the things it implies but doesn't say, is a feature and not a bug of his political potency” – The Atlantic Nov 17, 2021 Full Review The Velvet Underground (2021) 98% “Told largely with archival footage presented in split-screen, it is a swirling, 110-minute collage with a consistent, humming rhythm.” – The Atlantic Oct 19, 2021 Full Review Taylor Swift: Miss Americana (2020) 91% “Here is the engine of Swift's narrative: Swift's desire to be liked colliding with people not liking her. It's the ultimate celebrity problem, but the doc is smart about injecting it with social meaning by making the case that it stems from gender.” – The Atlantic Jan 31, 2020 Full Review Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé (2019) 98% “A career-defining document.” – The Atlantic Apr 19, 2019 Full Review The Dirt (2019) 38% “The danger of a document like The Dirt is in showing pigheadedness as not only fun and cool, but also elemental, inexplicable, and unstoppable. Boys will be boys, boys, boys.” – The Atlantic Mar 22, 2019 Full Review Springsteen on Broadway (2018) 96% “An absorbing viewing experience, one that comes with the warm, accumulating feeling that while under Bruce Springsteen's tutelage, everything makes sense.” – The Atlantic Dec 17, 2018 Full Review Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (2018) 90% “[Stephen] Loveridge's movie is a fantastic and kinetic fulfillment of Maya Arulpragasam's desire, back then, to be heard as more than an entertainer.” – The Atlantic Apr 2, 2018 Full Review George Michael: Freedom (2017) 69% “The documentary's heavy emphasis on the early-to-mid '90s has the marked feel of someone taking stock of their memories and curating their desired legacy. Which, of course, is the prerogative of an authorized, posthumous, hour-and-a-half documentary.” – The Atlantic Oct 23, 2017 Full Review Gaga: Five Foot Two (2017) 72% “... for now, Gaga is asking not for applause but understanding.” – The Atlantic Sep 25, 2017 Full Review Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland (2017) “They seem earnest in their avowals to do right by Jackson, and [it] is indeed a gentle portrayal...; Searching for Neverland mourns the exploitation of him in his final years; its very existence also, necessarily, exploits his final years.” – The Atlantic May 26, 2017 Full Review Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (2015) 97% “Cobain's life has been chronicled in scores of books and documentaries, but Montage of Heck feels fresh in the scope of material it includes, the way it's presented, and the things it emphasizes.” – The Atlantic Jan 3, 2016 Full Review Ricki and the Flash (2015) 65% “Just when the story beats start to feel unbearably obvious, the film changes keys, becoming less family dramedy than a concert film.” – The Atlantic Aug 7, 2015 Full Review Bessie (2015) 91% “At nearly two hours, Bessie feels a lot like any other 온라인카지노추천 biopic, with unspectacular production values and a mostly chronological story structure. But it's hard not to be moved by the woman it portrays, and by the point of view it shares with her.” – The Atlantic May 19, 2015 Full Review
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