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Jen Chaney

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The Black Sea (2024) 92% EDIT “If Harden weren’t such a naturally magnetic presence, The Black Sea would not work nearly as effectively as it does. But he’s fascinating and unpredictable to observe, carrying the entire film on his shoulders as if it weighs nothing at all.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Nov 21, 2024 Full Review Harold and the Purple Crayon (2024) 27% EDIT “Harold and the Purple Crayon makes the classic Hollywood mistake of taking a story that was lovely because of its concision and simplicity and turns it into a movie that is overly long and complicated for no good reason. ” – New York Magazine/Vulture Aug 5, 2024 Full Review Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024) 67% EDIT “Despite its reliance on the familiar, Axel F actually is largely a good time, so breezy and insistent on not taking itself too seriously that you can’t even get mad when the dialogue occasionally sounds like it got pumped out by ChatGPT.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jul 9, 2024 Full Review Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023) 99% EDIT “Guggenheim makes it clear from the very beginning of this clear-eyed, honest, and cleverly edited Apple TV+ film that he understands the through-lines in Fox’s life.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jan 3, 2024 Full Review Cat Person (2023) 47% EDIT “The movie, naturally, wants to tell us more than a roughly 7,000-word work of short fiction can. But this examination of the personalities and emotions we project onto others forgets to leave some space unfilled.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 6, 2023 Full Review Cassandro (2023) 91% EDIT “Cassandro may muscle and wink his way into the spotlight, but nothing about the effort is easy. This film is as interested in the struggle as it is in the moments of triumph.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Sep 15, 2023 Full Review My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3 (2023) 31% EDIT “In keeping with My Big Fat Greek Wedding tradition, if a joke is mildly amusing, it will be repeated until it makes you want to jam your head into the cup holder attached to your stadium seat.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Sep 7, 2023 Full Review Disenchanted (2022) 38% EDIT “This isn’t an organic continuation of Giselle’s story so much as an uninspired knockoff of the original, yet another attempt to use existing IP to attract viewers and subscribers besotted by the prospect of watching something familiar on a Friday night.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Nov 18, 2022 Full Review Hellraiser (2022) 68% EDIT “Gestures at similar ideas and borrows familiar plot points but makes the classic reboot mistake of adding too much story to what should have been a more concentrated reimagining of the Pinhead universe.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 7, 2022 Full Review Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. (2022) 72% EDIT “Honk for Jesus gets as lost in its search for a message as Lee-Curtis and Trinitie do in their quest for redemption. It’s a film whose prayers never lead to an answer.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Sep 2, 2022 Full Review Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022) 87% EDIT “One may rightfully ask whether the world needs another Downton Abbey movie, to which I would respond in my best Violet Crawley “What is a weekend?” voice: “What is need?”” – New York Magazine/Vulture May 19, 2022 Full Review The King's Man (2021) 41% EDIT “A dreary knock-off in period costume that doubles as an embarrassing work of wish fulfillment for anyone who just wishes Bond could be more overtly royalist.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Dec 22, 2021 Full Review The Tender Bar (2021) 51% EDIT “A sweet, pat, unchallenging coming-of-age story that resembles a lot of coming-of-age stories you've seen before, but with less depth.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Dec 22, 2021 Full Review The Humans (2021) 92% EDIT “Karam has translated his stage work into a film that never feels static. It lives somewhere in the genre space between indie drama and thriller, smack-dab between the surreal and the all too real.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Nov 24, 2021 Full Review Britney Vs Spears (2021) 60% EDIT “Britney vs. Spears has a harder time contextualizing and making these broader connections... The result is a piece that's more personal, but also not as rigorous and objective.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Sep 30, 2021 Full Review The Many Saints of Newark (2021) 72% EDIT “A movie that is fascinating to study and consider, but not nearly as good as the television series that made us wish for this movie to exist.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Sep 30, 2021 Full Review Queenpins (2021) 48% EDIT “Bell and Howell-Baptiste have an enjoyable and natural chemistry together, but the movie keeps changing its mind with regard to how it feels about them.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Sep 10, 2021 Full Review Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend (2020) 94% EDIT “What has always been true about Kimmy Schmidt remains true here: both she, and the series/interactive special she inspired, have sensibilities and minds very much of their own.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Aug 9, 2021 Full Review Friends: The Reunion (2021) 67% EDIT “As reunions go, the whole thing is warm, funny, entertaining, and a little too treacly at times - but that's how Friends was, too, so it feels right.” – New York Magazine/Vulture May 26, 2021 Full Review Tina (2021) 92% EDIT “A beautiful, moving film that feels like a summation of who Tina Turner is, yet also still leaves viewers wanting just a little bit more.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Mar 24, 2021 Full Review Moxie (2021) 70% EDIT “Moxie is a story of teen feminist rebellion with a screenplay that plays every moment just a little too safe.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Mar 3, 2021 Full Review The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart (2020) 96% EDIT “This is a rock documentary that doesn't just recount a band's rise, breakup, and successful reunion, though it does do that. It invites its audience to see the band's success from a deeper, more contextualized point of view.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Dec 11, 2020 Full Review LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special (2020) 74% EDIT “Ultimately, The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special doesn't so much tell a story as spit out callbacks that seem to have come from a random Star Wars reference generator.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Nov 17, 2020 Full Review The Glorias (2020) 67% EDIT “With a runtime of two and a half hours, it lasts too long and doesn't go deeply enough to register the way it should.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Oct 1, 2020 Full Review Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Candace Against the Universe (2020) 100% EDIT “While the movie follows the usual Phineas and Ferb formula, it also builds on those formulas and allows certain relationships to evolve.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Aug 26, 2020 Full Review
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