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Piers Marchant

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Anatomy of a Fall (2023) 96% EDIT “It's the director's commitment to eschew many of the trappings of its form that makes the film so resonant.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Jan 6, 2024 Full Review Napoleon (2023) 58% 82/100 EDIT “For all the film's refusal to canonize its protagonist, it doesn't have terribly much to offer beyond its mocking portrayal of the former general, and the peppering in of expansive battle sequences in between.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Nov 27, 2023 Full Review The Exorcist: Believer (2023) 22% 82/10 EDIT “The film's reasonably creepy first act laboriously sets up what might have been something good and jarring, only for the script to become a mishmash of barely considered ideas that mostly end up as demonic-hued piffle.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Oct 6, 2023 Full Review Gran Turismo: Based on a True Story (2023) 65% 82/100 EDIT “The film goes down relatively smoothly, albeit blunt as a mallet to the skull, even as it never lets us forget for a second the corporation behind it all.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Aug 19, 2023 Full Review The Gullspång Miracle (2023) 95% EDIT “It doesn't solve any crimes, but it certainly offers a lot about human nature and our ability to cram the round peg of belief through the narrow square space of reality.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Jun 30, 2023 Full Review One Night with Adela (2023) 70% EDIT “Creating an atmosphere of dank dread is an accomplishment, but this one won't stay with you very long.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Jun 30, 2023 Full Review Rather (2023) 94% EDIT “Follows the greatest hits format, but hopscotches around between archived news clips from different eras, contemporary interviews with Rather and some of his professional associates, to produce an encapsulation of his life that feels properly vetted.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Jun 30, 2023 Full Review Asteroid City (2023) 76% 86/100 EDIT “To be certain, there is still a lot to savor for Anderson fans, but with this film, he has reached a new level of complexity that might have plunged his already teetering emotional ratio into much less accessible territory.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Jun 23, 2023 Full Review Past Lives (2023) 95% EDIT “In Song's impossibly adept debut, she's able to find balance and harmony in the chaos of an ever-surging society.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Jun 23, 2023 Full Review The Blackening (2022) 87% 85/100 EDIT “The movie is a pip, a bracing rush of originality that gives one hope for the oncoming summer deluge. ” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Jun 16, 2023 Full Review Elemental (2023) 73% 80/100 EDIT “A film that maintains a sloppy grasp of its own basic mechanics, en route to a well-worn story that feels laden down with its own attempts at Deeper Meaning.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Jun 16, 2023 Full Review Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) 95% 90/100 EDIT “The combination of art and story produce an extraordinarily entertaining spectacle.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Jun 2, 2023 Full Review Fast X (2023) 56% 78/100 EDIT “Dom -- and the film -- are so relentless with the notion of whatever family means, it all begins to feel like so much sentimentalist drivel, a colorfully patterned carpet designed to distract you from all the people losing money at the slot machines.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette May 19, 2023 Full Review Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) 82% 87/100 EDIT “This "Guardians" doesn't come with the same verve and moxie as the first two, but there is, at least, a sense of growth.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette May 5, 2023 Full Review Beau Is Afraid (2023) 67% EDIT “It's not a film about all the things that actually happen as much as it's a film about the feelings these events conjure up in us, the way they stir and poke at our own subconscious' terrors. ” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Apr 28, 2023 Full Review Chevalier (2022) 76% 85/100 EDIT “It favors quick resolution and dramatic encapsulation to depth, a treatment that hardly does justice to Bologne. For a man who once bested no less than Mozart in musical combat, it's hard not to feel he deserves better.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Apr 21, 2023 Full Review Air (2023) 93% 87/100 EDIT “[Air] at least seems to understand exactly what it is: an amusing time capsule, steeped in the irony that we all know just how pivotally successful this venture eventually becomes” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Apr 7, 2023 Full Review John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) 94% 86/100 EDIT “The film feels a good deal less inspired than in some of the series’ previous efforts. Instead, we get a sort of greatest hits medley, most of which feels pretty played out long before we finally reach the final, final, final confrontation.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Mar 24, 2023 Full Review Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (2023) 46% EDIT “Quantumania is a lifeless, mirthless CGI saturnalia that dispenses almost entirely with the emotional core of its characters. In its place, Peyton Reed and his production team have resorted to the worst sort of empty spectacle filmmaking.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Mar 3, 2023 Full Review Skinamarink (2022) 73% EDIT “I don't expect such a peculiar film will be for everyone, but for those of us still stuck with a potent sense of childhood dread, it's a sort of horrific revelation.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Feb 10, 2023 Full Review You Hurt My Feelings (2023) 94% EDIT “Collectively, these exquisitely rendered moments begin to form a much greater whole, creating a sense of the world for [Nicole Holofcener's] characters that somehow expands far beyond what we actually see of them.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Feb 10, 2023 Full Review Eileen (2023) 81% EDIT “Not everything works precisely, especially when the film takes its unexpected turn, but much of the groundwork is excellent, allowing it a wider than usual sort of berth. ” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Feb 10, 2023 Full Review Cat Person (2023) 47% EDIT “It moves from figurative to literal, in a way that actually reduces the tension, letting the audience off the hook, essentially, and dulling its resonance.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Feb 10, 2023 Full Review Magazine Dreams (2023) 80% EDIT “Watching the film is a bit like viewing a man barely holding onto a steel girder high off the ground, losing his grip finger by agonizing finger. ” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Feb 3, 2023 Full Review Fair Play (2023) 86% EDIT “Domont's film is about as pitiless as many of its characters, putting toxic masculinity under an unflinching microscope.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Feb 3, 2023 Full Review
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