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Lara Zarum

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Downhill (2020) 36% 2/4 EDIT “Allow me to save you some time and money: Force Majeure is streaming on Amazon Prime.” – Globe and Mail Feb 24, 2020 Full Review Dolittle (2020) 15% 2/4 EDIT “If the muddled plot and aesthetic chaos of Dolittle leaves a bitter taste in your mouth, seek the antidote - an episode of Planet Earth.” – Globe and Mail Jan 17, 2020 Full Review The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018) 86% EDIT “The film takes a grown-up approach to its young-adult material; this is a somewhat somber YA adaptation, with teenage subjects who are fully formed and all too human.” – Village Voice Jul 31, 2018 Full Review Set It Up (2018) 92% EDIT “Really, though, the movie is cinematic Soylent: flavorless, joyless, and devoid of any surprises. It's a testament to the film industry's years of neglect that we leave feeling full.” – Village Voice Jul 12, 2018 Full Review Whitney (2018) 88% EDIT “It's a well-worn tale, but that doesn't diminish the scale of its tragedy.” – Village Voice Jul 5, 2018 Full Review Hannah Gadsby: Nanette (2018) 100% EDIT “In Nanette, Gadsby strains against the impulse to end every joke with a punchline. To diffuse the tension as such would be a cop-out. She wants the audience to sit with it...powerful, uncomfortable, and searingly angry.” – Village Voice Jun 28, 2018 Full Review Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) 97% EDIT “The documentary is ultimately bittersweet, because it highlights just how alien Fred Rogers' philosophy of television has become today. But the film also functions as a gentle rallying cry.” – Village Voice Jun 4, 2018 Full Review The Tale (2018) 99% EDIT “Survivors of childhood sexual abuse will likely find The Tale a difficult watch. But it's damn near necessary viewing in this age of collective trauma unveiled.” – Village Voice May 23, 2018 Full Review Tiny Shoulders: Rethinking Barbie (2018) 81% EDIT “By two-thirds in, Tiny Shoulders starts to feel like a publicity exercise for the brand - an attempt to humanize the company by showing us the real women behind all that plastic.” – Village Voice Apr 26, 2018 Full Review Mudbound (2017) 97% EDIT “Despite its often brutal realism, Mudbound isn't masochistic; it leaves room for hope, and argues fiercely for love.” – Village Voice Nov 14, 2017 Full Review Too Funny To Fail (2017) 100% EDIT “Too Funny to Fail, which is now streaming on Hulu, is a sprightly and hilarious look at what a title card calls "arguably one of the most spectacular failures in television history."” – Village Voice Nov 8, 2017 Full Review Lady Bird (2017) 99% EDIT “Gerwig's directorial debut is a joy from start to finish, a warm, generous snapshot of teenage vulnerability and exuberance.” – Village Voice Oct 26, 2017 Full Review One of Us (2017) 96% EDIT “The film is a nuanced and moving illustration of the dilemma facing doubting members of the growing Hasidic community in New York City, home to the world's largest population of Jews outside of Israel.” – Village Voice Oct 17, 2017 Full Review Beauty and the Beast (2017) 71% EDIT “The film doesn't need to be given a dark twist like 2012's Snow White and the Huntsman; as with every fairytale, there's enough darkness in this story to begin with.” – Flavorwire Apr 28, 2017 Full Review Beaches (2017) 44% EDIT “A freeze-dried remake that'll leave you wistful for the fresh taste of the original.” – Flavorwire Feb 1, 2017 Full Review Passengers (2016) 30% EDIT “It's a tidy message, if not exactly the one 'Passengers' intends to send home: Man is bored, so man ruins woman's life.” – Flavorwire Dec 20, 2016 Full Review The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (2016) 29% EDIT “The result feels less like a creative reimagining of a classic for a new generation and more like your mom threw you a Rocky-themed birthday party.” – Flavorwire Oct 19, 2016 Full Review Sausage Party (2016) 82% EDIT “By the time it reaches its, heh, climax with a storewide food fuck fest, any attempt at a serious critique of its interpretation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict feels a little ridiculous.” – Flavorwire Aug 11, 2016 Full Review O.J.: Made in America (2016) 100% EDIT “A penetrating look at a fallen hero in the context of race and police brutality in Los Angeles and the country as a whole.” – Flavorwire Jun 8, 2016 Full Review Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016) 65% EDIT “'Sorority Rising' is a broad summer comedy that has an unapologetically feminist message and is also hilarious. See? That wasn't so hard.” – Flavorwire May 19, 2016 Full Review Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (2016) 86% EDIT “'Norman Lear' paints a picture of a long-lost time when a sitcom could start a national debate - because the entire nation was watching.” – Flavorwire May 17, 2016 Full Review Spring Broke (2016) EDIT “Despite the film's promisingly cheeky beginning, it quickly settles into a fairly conventional documentary, and bypasses the opportunity to tell a more interesting and culturally relevant story about spring break.” – Flavorwire May 5, 2016 Full Review Everybody Wants Some!! (2016) 87% EDIT “The "some" that everybody wants here is plainly sex, but the gang engages in enough undergraduate philosophizing to suggest that they're hoping to get more than just laid.” – Flavorwire May 5, 2016 Full Review Confirmation (2016) 84% EDIT “HBO's original film about the 1991 Clarence Thomas hearings is a quietly powerful portrait of institutional dysfunction in the face of an uncomfortable truth.” – Flavorwire May 5, 2016 Full Review Me Him Her (2015) 45% EDIT “Me Him Her has an admirably buoyant energy but a murky message and shortage of laughs.” – Village Voice Mar 8, 2016 Full Review
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