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Caroline Tsai

Caroline Tsai's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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The Divide (2021) 75% C EDIT “In this strange carnivalesque blend of seriousness and inconsequentiality, Corsini loses her message, and her audience.” – The Playlist Jul 26, 2021 Full Review Mothering Sunday (2021) 77% B+ EDIT “Filmmaker Eva Husson offers us a maid, a trio of bourgeois families, and a lush yet ultimately bleak view of post-World War I England.” – The Playlist Jul 20, 2021 Full Review Hold Me Tight (2021) 86% B EDIT “Such is the nature of grief, and though the power of viral meme-hood has thoroughly ironized the sentiment, "Hold Me Tight" reaffirms it: What is grief, if not love persisting?” – The Playlist Jul 20, 2021 Full Review New Worlds: The Cradle of Civilization (2021) 100% B EDIT “"New Worlds" is an undeniable reminder of live music's irreplaceable magic-and an entreaty not to forget it.” – The Playlist Jul 20, 2021 Full Review The Innocents (2021) 97% C+ EDIT “A violent nightmare of a film, "The Innocents," follows a posse of elementary-school-aged children who discover that they have telekinetic powers.” – The Playlist Jul 20, 2021 Full Review Ali & Ava (2021) 94% B+ EDIT “The aftertaste of "Ali & Ava" is sweet, like the last fading beats of a dance song.” – The Playlist Jul 20, 2021 Full Review A Hero (2021) 97% B EDIT “In "A Hero" ("Ghahreman"), Asghar Farhadi blurs the line of innocence and guilt in a fraught drama about the true weight of a good deed.” – The Playlist Jul 20, 2021 Full Review Paris, 13th District (2021) 83% B+ EDIT “"Paris, 13th District" feels like Audiard's attempt to inaugurate a Millennial New Wave, "Jules and Jim," but with a synth-pop soundtrack.” – The Playlist Jul 20, 2021 Full Review Memoria (2021) 90% A- EDIT “Weerasethakul delivers an experience that is meditative and existentially transcendent, a long, hard look at the scope of human life and its place on a global timeline.” – The Playlist Jul 20, 2021 Full Review Nitram (2021) 92% B EDIT “Caleb Landry Jones is a master of character work in both subdued scenes and intense ones; he evokes the erraticism of a ticking time bomb.” – The Playlist Jul 20, 2021 Full Review Blue Bayou (2021) 75% A- EDIT “Chon treats the subjects of Blue Bayou with real, considered intimacy in a way that suggests lived experience.” – AwardsWatch Jul 15, 2021 Full Review Annette (2021) 72% B EDIT “"Fame is like a flame," Adam Driver's Henry McHenry says wistfully in his stand-up routine, before a rapt audience. "Glorious, superfluous..." It's the thesis of Annette, the campy rock opera whose characters never find a healthy balance with their fame.” – AwardsWatch Jul 14, 2021 Full Review The French Dispatch (2021) 75% B+ EDIT “Perhaps The French Dispatch isn't an entirely new flavor. But Anderson can't help but indulge, and neither can we.” – AwardsWatch Jul 14, 2021 Full Review Cow (2021) 96% A- EDIT “It's telling that, for a film that never once mentions meat-eating, Cow is very effective propaganda for vegetarianism.” – AwardsWatch Jul 14, 2021 Full Review Stillwater (2021) 75% C+ EDIT “"It gestures feebly at political commentaries with jokes about Trump and gun ownership but never sticks the landing."” – The Playlist Jul 9, 2021 Full Review Ahed's Knee (2021) 74% B EDIT “No character in "Ahed's Knee" is simplistically good, nor simplistically evil, disrupting what would have otherwise been an easy moral binary.” – The Playlist Jul 8, 2021 Full Review Frankie (2019) 57% C EDIT “An overstuffed family drama that somehow stifles the great Isabelle Huppert.” – The Playlist May 26, 2019 Full Review Nina Wu (2019) 81% B EDIT “Clearly, the director takes great risks off-screen. If only they were as great on the screen.” – The Playlist May 26, 2019 Full Review Matthias & Maxime (2019) 63% B+ EDIT “"Matthias and Maxime" ticks almost every checkbox of a Xavier Dolan movie.” – The Playlist May 26, 2019 Full Review Mektoub, My Love (2018) 10% F EDIT “After about 30 minutes of twerking and its controversial sex scene, "Mektoub, My Love: Intermezzo" begins to feel like a human rights violation.” – The Playlist May 26, 2019 Full Review Les misérables (2019) 88% B+ EDIT “Ladj Ly's Les Misérables gives audiences a beautiful, tense modern-day revolution that takes root in the banlieues of Paris.” – The Playlist May 21, 2019 Full Review Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) 97% A EDIT “Sciamma has a magnificent capability for elegant prose that wouldn't feel out of place in a classic novel, the kind of dialogue that simmers long after it is spoken.” – The Playlist May 21, 2019 Full Review A Brother's Love (2019) 75% B EDIT “A Brother's Love boasts an impressive aesthetic palette, from visuals to sound, and a showstopping lead performance, which salvages its subpar latter half.” – The Playlist May 21, 2019 Full Review Little Joe (2019) 67% B- EDIT “Barring a few short-sighted misfires, Little Joe remains an arresting film with a novel imagination of a presently relevant issue.” – The Playlist May 21, 2019 Full Review Lux Æterna (2019) 64% B- EDIT “There's something frustrating about Noé's approach in Lux Æterna, but also an undefinably admirable quality to the extremity of his showmanship.” – The Playlist May 21, 2019 Full Review
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