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Arlin Golden

Arlin Golden's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes (2018) 95% EDIT “The label is generally considered unparalleled in its impact on music, singular catalogue, and the artistic freedom it afforded its musicians. Or should I say affords, since the film makes abundantly clear that Blue Note is very much alive and well.” – Film Inquiry Aug 10, 2019 Full Review The Hidden City (2018) 100% EDIT “If you can settle into its groove and accept its aesthetic of abstraction, The Hidden City will be an entrancing watch.” – Film Inquiry Apr 27, 2019 Full Review Hail Satan? (2019) 96% EDIT “Hail Satan? will likely rest with your feelings about its subject, as the film often feels like a promotional film for The Satanic Temple. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, as the tenets of the nascent religion cum political movement are solid.” – Film Inquiry Apr 27, 2019 Full Review Central Airport THF (2018) 100% EDIT “It is an experience characterized by persistent ennui, which perhaps doesn't make for the most engaging film, but it's valuable nonetheless for illuminating this hidden world.” – Film Inquiry Apr 27, 2019 Full Review Meeting Gorbachev (2018) 86% EDIT “It's a valuable summary of a uniquely transformative global figure about whom I knew very little.” – Film Inquiry Apr 27, 2019 Full Review The Nightingale (2018) 87% EDIT “The Nightingale is well crafted, well acted, well written, and well shot, so could justifiably be classified as a good movie maybe even a really good one. Even so, there is very little to enjoy in the film, a relentlessly unpleasant affair.” – Film Inquiry Apr 27, 2019 Full Review Well Groomed (2019) 95% EDIT “Introducing audiences to the burgeoning world of creative dog grooming, Well Groomed is a ceaseless joy.” – Film Inquiry Apr 27, 2019 Full Review Grass is Greener (2019) 100% EDIT “I'm glad what will inevitably be referred to as "the Netflix weed doc" is largely about the war on drugs' outsized effect on radicalized communities and the current intense discrimination with regards to the burgeoning legal market.” – Film Inquiry Apr 27, 2019 Full Review The Elephant Queen (2018) 91% EDIT “The Elephant Queen is an anthropomorphized epic that's aimed at young children, yet features a surprising amount of hard truths about life and nature.” – Film Inquiry Apr 27, 2019 Full Review Jawline (2019) 97% EDIT “Mandelup somehow manages to entirely resist ridicule on all fronts of this weird new world by highlighting the yearning and desperation familiar to anyone who was ever a teenager.” – Film Inquiry Apr 27, 2019 Full Review Honeyland (2019) 100% EDIT “Honeyland is a microcosmic tale of a woman whose entire way of life is threatened by leeching men and free-market capitalism. Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov bring us perhaps the documentary protagonist of the year.” – Film Inquiry Apr 27, 2019 Full Review Walking on Water (2018) 88% EDIT “An undeniably enjoyable film, more than anything it was just nice to see the 83-year old artist on the screen once again, like checking in with an old kooky friend.” – Film Inquiry Apr 27, 2019 Full Review The Seer and the Unseen (2019) 82% EDIT “Sara Dosa chose a wonderful premise for this unique spin on the standard enviro-doc.” – Film Inquiry Apr 27, 2019 Full Review Always in Season (2019) 83% EDIT “Always in Season demonstrates with pain and sensitivity that history is never past.” – Film Inquiry Apr 27, 2019 Full Review Midnight Traveler (2019) 98% EDIT “Quite simply, this is the best refugee documentary I've ever seen.” – Film Inquiry Apr 27, 2019 Full Review Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements (2019) 85% EDIT “As tempting as it might be to get mired in those issues of ethics and objectivity, I was happy to take Midnight Sonata mostly at face value and vicariously enjoy the love so apparent on the screen.” – Film Inquiry Apr 27, 2019 Full Review Pahokee (2019) 100% EDIT “Lucas and Bresnan have crafted a unique paean to the forever unrecoverable feeling of wrapping up your childhood with a world of possibilities yet to be lived.” – Film Inquiry Apr 27, 2019 Full Review American Factory (2019) 95% EDIT “The latest from Julia Reichert and Steven Bognar features no shortage of cultural misunderstandings, and there is a lot of fruit borne from this collision of Chinese-style capitalism and blue collar America.” – Film Inquiry Apr 19, 2019 Full Review The Grand Bizarre (2018) 100% EDIT “An exercise in aesthetic aesthetics with undertones of colonialism and globalization, should you have an opportunity to see it, The Grand Bizarre is not to be missed.” – Film Inquiry Apr 19, 2019 Full Review Midnight Family (2019) 97% EDIT “The film owes its success to its engaging and entertaining protagonists, its high-stakes context, and Lorentzen's skilled editing. The whole film is really a virtuoso demonstration of craft.” – Film Inquiry Apr 19, 2019 Full Review One Child Nation (2019) 98% EDIT “The strength of the film lies in its intimacy, prioritizing the recollections of Wang's own family and community members to build the bulk of its narrative.” – Film Inquiry Apr 19, 2019 Full Review Aquarela (2018) 87% EDIT “Aquarela goes a different tract, one based on emotion and scale, to engage the audience on a deeper, existential level.” – Film Inquiry Apr 19, 2019 Full Review Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (2019) 91% EDIT “Though one could be justified doing an entire feature on each of Miles' distinct eras, Cool is sure to be an easy entry point for the uninitiated.” – Film Inquiry Apr 19, 2019 Full Review In My Room (2018) 80% EDIT “In My Room is a slow burn for sure, but its commitment to character development over exposition makes it worthwhile.” – Film Inquiry Apr 19, 2019 Full Review Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (2019) 97% EDIT “Greenfield-Sanders' signature style of shooting interviews helps keep Pieces from suffering the fate of sheer rote-ness that befalls so many biographical documentaries.” – Film Inquiry Apr 19, 2019 Full Review
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