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Lisa Kennedy

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Soul Patrol (2026) EDIT “The credits begin their roll with Jimmy Ruffin’s aching ballad “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted?” playing. Like Emanuel and his comrades, Harper and his film go a meaningful way in asking and offering an answer to that plaint.” – Variety Jan 27, 2026 Full Review All That's Left of You (2025) 100% EDIT “In depicting scenes of dispossession and fraught encounters with soldiers, the filmmaker offers a saga of trauma that has antecedents in dramas set during previous mass conflicts like Apartheid as well as in the Jim Crow South. ” – New York Times Jan 8, 2026 Full Review The Dutchman (2025) 57% EDIT “As with the play (and its 1967 film adaptation), the sexual politics here are messy. What isn’t is the filmmakers’ bold dive into the archives of the nascent Black Arts Movement for a throughline.” – New York Times Jan 2, 2026 Full Review Merv (2025) 36% EDIT “Merv proves less a character than a catalyst in a film that’s content to have its treat and eat it, too.” – New York Times Dec 10, 2025 Full Review Rosemead (2025) 89% EDIT “In its march toward resolution, “Rosemead” never falters in its compassion, and asks the same of us. ” – New York Times Dec 4, 2025 Full Review The Family Plan 2 (2025) 31% EDIT “Director Simon Cellan Jones and the writer David Coggeshall return for this better executed, equally goofball follow-up. ” – New York Times Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Rebuilding (2025) 93% EDIT “One could surmise that it takes a village of women to save a stubbornly reticent man. But the lesson of “Rebuilding” is gentler, broader and timelier: Accepting help is a necessary step toward offering it to others in lasting ways.” – New York Times Nov 13, 2025 Full Review Christy (2025) 67% EDIT “[Sweeney] settles into Christy’s heft but never overthinks her character, whose innate skills are decades ahead of her self-esteem. ” – New York Times Nov 6, 2025 Full Review Ruth & Boaz (2025) EDIT “The real hiccup in this retelling — directed by Alanna Brown — is the way the screenwriters lean on familiarity with the source material and hurry the love story. ” – New York Times Sep 26, 2025 Full Review The Summer Book (2024) 83% EDIT “The Summer Book offers a loving portrait of budding and fading.” – New York Times Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Happyend (2024) 98% EDIT “Sora deftly calibrates the angst of his young characters — and the collective edginess of a nation, while nodding to the joys of the teen genre.” – New York Times Sep 11, 2025 Full Review Love, Brooklyn (2025) 69% EDIT “But, like its characters, it’s a little too comfortable with being betwixt and between.” – New York Times Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Songs from the Hole (2024) 88% EDIT “Visually fluid and emotionally complex, the nonfiction hybrid Songs From the Hole, directed by Contessa Gayles, offers viewers their own portal: into James’s anguished reckoning, but also into bedeviling questions about crime, punishment and forgiveness.” – New York Times Aug 14, 2025 Full Review Architecton (2024) 95% EDIT “Architecton is as gorgeous as it is grave. The score (by Evgueni Galperine) and sound design (by Aleksandr Dudarev) contribute mightily to the film’s heavy lifting.” – New York Times Jul 31, 2025 Full Review Sunday Best (2023) 100% EDIT “Illuminating and so entertaining, “Sunday Best” nevertheless elicits a mournful pang. ” – New York Times Jul 22, 2025 Full Review Finally Dawn (2023) 36% EDIT “Finally Dawn is at its most intriguing as Costanzo entrusts his curly haired, wide-eyed naïf to maneuver the looking glass of Italian versus Hollywood cinema. Hint: Italy comes off more soulful.” – New York Times Jul 17, 2025 Full Review Brick (2025) 44% EDIT “Make sure to watch this thriller in its original German. Dubbed into English, it goes from mildly diverting to landing like a ton of, well ….” – New York Times Jul 10, 2025 Full Review Ride or Die (2025) EDIT “There’s a deep yearning and caring at work here that is the film’s idiosyncratic strength, but also may be its weakness, plausibility-wise.” – Variety Jun 16, 2025 Full Review Will (1981) EDIT “With its rough-hewed realism, “Will” is remarkable not so much for its craft as for its philosophical depth in portraying the tensions between a struggling individual and his community, which can be both supportive and enabling.” – New York Times Jun 12, 2025 Full Review She Runs the World (2025) EDIT “One of the many lessons of “She Runs the World” is that taking it easy isn’t what Allyson Felix is about. This is a portrait of a world-record holder who became a world-class advocate.” – Variety Jun 11, 2025 Full Review STRAW (2025) 53% EDIT “Henson — so deeply committed to her character’s emotional cratering — still makes us care.” – New York Times Jun 9, 2025 Full Review Electra (2024) 50% EDIT “From its title sequence to its languid eying of the palazzo’s suggestive artworks, “Electra” declares its affinity for visual (and sonic) swagger.” – New York Times May 1, 2025 Full Review Queens of Drama (2024) 86% EDIT “With playful visual flourishes, a willfully garish palette and winks galore, Langlois’s debut has stylistic ambition for days.” – New York Times Apr 17, 2025 Full Review Viet and Nam (2024) 98% EDIT “The film makes clear that even though Nam and Viet must be wary they are also achingly in love.” – New York Times Mar 27, 2025 Full Review Picture This (2025) 44% EDIT ““Picture This,” keeps it light, never letting the sharp edges of potential failure come into focus.” – New York Times Mar 6, 2025 Full Review
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