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Literary Hub

Literary Hub is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer^® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Elissa Suh.

Rating	Title \| Year	Author	Quote
	The Beast (2023)	Elissa Suh	Bonello wrings from James’s tale of fate and loneliness something suitably grotesque, oblique, and at times even trollish—wholly resonant with our times. Posted Oct 20, 2023 Edit critic review
	The Pigeon Tunnel (2023)	Elissa Suh	The Pigeon Tunnel, Errol Morris’s documentary about spy novelist John le Carré, is best seen as a supplementary B-sides or bonus accompaniment to the author’s works. Posted Oct 20, 2023 Edit critic review
	Janet Planet (2023)	Elissa Suh	Annie Baker nimbly evokes the specificities of setting—early 90s Western Mass, awash in gentle hippiedom with transcendentalist puppeteers and earnest contra dances—but stumbles to coax out the intricate particulars of her vision onto the screen. Posted Oct 19, 2023 Edit critic review
	Orlando, My Political Biography (2023)	Elissa Suh	Preciado skillfully fashions a collective portrait of transness that refuses easy categorization. Posted Oct 19, 2023 Edit critic review
	Poor Things (2023)	Elissa Suh	The maximalist ride is mostly a confection, lacking the full political bearing of the novel. Posted Oct 19, 2023 Edit critic review
	Saint Omer (2022)	Elissa Suh	Saint Omer, a nominal courtroom drama, is a multifaceted and astounding gem of a film, posing moral and political quandaries that generate a wealth of intellectual and emotional consequences for viewer and character alike. Posted Oct 02, 2023 Edit critic review
	A Normal Family (2023)	Elissa Suh	Hur Jin-ho’s commendably chilling adaptation of The Dinner by Herman Koch is a marked improvement from the high-strung but tonally manic American version starring Richard Gere. But fans of the spiky novel will still perceive a certain void. Posted Oct 02, 2023 Edit critic review
	Gonzo Girl (2023)	Elissa Suh	This adaptation of Cheryl Della Pietra’s novel, directed by Patricia Arquette, stumbles inelegantly and becomes entangled in a clunky script that mirrors limitations of its source material. Posted Oct 02, 2023 Edit critic review
	American Fiction (2023)	Elissa Suh	Percival Everett’s novel, Erasure doesn’t quite fit the comedic mold portrayed in its movie adaptation, American Fiction...Ultimately and not insignificantly, Jefferson has crafted a work distinct enough from the book to call his own. Posted Oct 02, 2023 Edit critic review
	The Critic (2023)	Elissa Suh	Any traces of mirth found in Anthony Quinn’s novel Curtain Call have been bled dry in its adaptation The Critic, which lacks comedic instincts and rejects any semblance of pastiche found in its source material. Posted Oct 02, 2023 Edit critic review
	Wildcat (2023)	Elissa Suh	An inventive cinematic biography of Flannery O’Connor Posted Sep 22, 2023 Edit critic review
	The Eight Mountains (2022)	Elissa Suh	The Eight Mountains is a skilled adaptation of Paolo Cognetti’s 2016 novel that adheres strictly to both the book’s tone and the author’s intent, with nary the kind of adjustments that might anger devoted readers. Posted May 05, 2023 Edit critic review