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The Count of Monte Cristo
(2024)
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Lisa Nesselson
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Bottomlessly juicy.
Posted Jul 09, 2024
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Plastic Guns
(2024)
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Lisa Nesselson
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It's a black comedy that is not for the squeamish or the easily offended. It is very, very French.
Posted Jul 09, 2024
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Joan Baez I Am a Noise
(2023)
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Lisa Nesselson
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Baez is a class act, and so is this film.
Posted Jul 09, 2024
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Kinds of Kindness
(2024)
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Lisa Nesselson
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If you're new to this director, I wouldn't tell you to start here with this one.
Posted Jul 09, 2024
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
(2024)
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Lisa Nesselson
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At 79, Australian George Miller remains an action maestro.
Posted May 30, 2024
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White Dog
(2022)
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Lisa Nesselson
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It tackles how racist attitudes can be inculcated and through hard work tentatively reversed...
Posted May 30, 2024
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Marcello Mio
(2024)
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Lisa Nesselson
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There's a lot of bold experimentation afoot here...
Posted May 30, 2024
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The Belle from Gaza
(2024)
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Lisa Nesselson
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The film gives us often surprising insights into trans lives.
Posted May 30, 2024
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The Vanishing Soldier
(2023)
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Lisa Nesselson
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The film is very deft... It shows how one private poor decision can take a life of its own, and how the media and the military don't always get things right.
Posted May 07, 2024
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Bushman
(1971)
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Lisa Nesselson
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This is a truly special time capsule awash and still pertinent in aspects that society needs to improve after almost 50 years [since] it was shot. It's entertaining, fascinating, and leads to a melancholy real-life twist... [Full review in Spanish]
Posted May 07, 2024
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Back to Black
(2024)
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Lisa Nesselson
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You needn't be a fan to find this interesting, even rewarding.
Posted May 07, 2024
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Out of Season
(2024)
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Lisa Nesselson
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Even large bodies of water have better things to do than provide a backdrop for this tepid tale.
Posted Apr 02, 2024
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The Sweet East
(2023)
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Lisa Nesselson
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From all reports, Sean Price Williams is a real sweetheart in real life and there is no arguing with his proven talents as a cinematographer... but this film is disappointing and tedious.
Posted Apr 02, 2024
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There's Still Tomorrow
(2023)
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Lisa Nesselson
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The director is skilled at episodic sketch comedy and she finds a real balance between dire circumstances and ironic dark humor.
Posted Apr 02, 2024
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Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros
(2023)
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Lisa Nesselson
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Nobody wants flies in their restaurant... but Wiseman's style in his often lengthy documentaries has always been fly-on-the-wall.
Posted Jan 03, 2024
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Priscilla
(2023)
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Lisa Nesselson
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The film shows us that the romance was as genuine as it was confining.
Posted Jan 03, 2024
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Feathers
(2021)
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Lisa Nesselson
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Less of a feel-good movie, more of a feel-bored movie. Which is unfortunate, because it really does get off to a fetching start in the first 15 minutes or so.
Posted Apr 15, 2022
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Broken Keys
(2020)
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Lisa Nesselson
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Jimmy Keyrouz draws inspiration from true events in Syria for his début feature, while providing a hopeful perspective on the battle between religious extremism and the arts.
Posted Apr 15, 2022
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Vortex
(2021)
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Lisa Nesselson
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Vortex discovers how the gentle decline of an intellectual couple prompts poignant questions about our own existence.
Posted Apr 15, 2022
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Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
(2021)
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Lisa Nesselson
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It offers terrific insights into the lives of its women characters.
Posted Apr 15, 2022
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Arthur Rambo
(2021)
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Lisa Nesselson
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I was disappointed to the point of irritation. It should be real food for thought but comes off as didactic and wearisome.
Posted Feb 25, 2022
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Persian Lessons
(2020)
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Lisa Nesselson
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Nahuel Pérez Biscayart puts his polyglot talents to good use...
Posted Feb 01, 2022
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C'mon C'mon
(2021)
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Lisa Nesselson
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A touching adult-child relationship develops in Mike Mills' latest film with a low-key plot and an aesthetic appeal...
Posted Feb 01, 2022
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Spencer
(2021)
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Lisa Nesselson
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Stewart captures the essence of being in an oppressive environment.
Posted Jan 19, 2022
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Nightmare Alley
(2021)
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Lisa Nesselson
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It's hard to recommend this film when I found the 1947 version (even its poster) to be so much more satisfying.
Posted Jan 19, 2022
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West Side Story
(2021)
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Lisa Nesselson
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When Spielberg makes a film, it's a film all the way.
Posted Dec 30, 2021
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The Card Counter
(2020)
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Lisa Nesselson
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Intelligent, rich, pertinent, tense storytelling for grownups. The stakes feel real.
Posted Dec 30, 2021
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Spider-Man: No Way Home
(2021)
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Lisa Nesselson
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I think Holland is incredibly talented...
Posted Dec 30, 2021
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A Hero
(2021)
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Lisa Nesselson
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Farhadi, who already made an instant classic...has found enormous success.
Posted Dec 30, 2021
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Aline
(2021)
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Lisa Nesselson
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The concept is almost psychedelic, with the matter-of-fact bending of time and space...this shouldn't work, but it does, and in my opinion, beautifully and with humor.
Posted Nov 24, 2021
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Magnetic Beats
(2021)
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Lisa Nesselson
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The freedom is extraordinary...intoxicating...
Posted Nov 24, 2021
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Cry Macho
(2021)
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Lisa Nesselson
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At 91 years old, actor and director Clint Eastwood is still bringing his quiet intensity to the big screen, in stories that explore the dustier corners of the American experience.
Posted Nov 10, 2021
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Three Floors
(2021)
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Lisa Nesselson
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I don't particularly enjoy Moretti's movies, and I don't think this one is very good...but there is one device that really got to me...
Posted Nov 10, 2021
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No Time to Die
(2021)
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Lisa Nesselson
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It entertains and it's definitely worth a trip to the theater...sampling itself while straddling old and new...
Posted Oct 06, 2021
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Flag Day
(2021)
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Lisa Nesselson
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Mysterious is fine, but frustratingly opaque is not.
Posted Oct 06, 2021
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City of Lies
(2018)
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Lisa Nesselson
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A complex tale about a still-unsolved homicide.
Posted Sep 21, 2021
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Dune
(2021)
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Lisa Nesselson
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The case can be made that it's women who really run this universe...
Posted Sep 21, 2021
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The Night House
(2020)
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Lisa Nesselson
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Rebecca Hall does a very, very good job, and this is genuinely scary.
Posted Sep 21, 2021
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Supernova
(2020)
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Lisa Nesselson
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A modest but absolutely loving film that's very involving thanks to wonderful performances...
Posted Sep 21, 2021
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Pleasure
(2021)
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Lisa Nesselson
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The involving and edifying tale of a young woman..,.
Posted Sep 21, 2021
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JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass
(2021)
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Lisa Nesselson
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An extremely rigorous and amazingly-interesting film.
Posted Sep 21, 2021
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Ahed's Knee
(2021)
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Lisa Nesselson
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Fans who love this director's work really love it. I'm not one of them yet, but he's unquestionably a gifted filmmaker with strong personal ideas to convey...
Posted Sep 21, 2021
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Charlatan
(2020)
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Lisa Nesselson
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The acting and production design are both top-notch.
Posted Jul 27, 2021
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French Tech
(2020)
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Lisa Nesselson
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Bruno Podalydès skewers the jargon-infested, productivity-obsessed contemporary world of work in French Tech...
Posted Jul 27, 2021
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Teddy
(2020)
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Lisa Nesselson
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The brothers are definitely talents to watch...
Posted Jul 27, 2021
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Helmut Newton: The Bad and the Beautiful
(2020)
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Lisa Nesselson
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It's clear Newton was a considerate man and a superb collaborator...really entertaining film.
Posted Jul 27, 2021
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Titane
(2021)
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Lisa Nesselson
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The film is leveled by its humor...
Posted Jul 27, 2021
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Memoria
(2021)
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Lisa Nesselson
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Meditations on nature, our place in the world, where time sort of stops.
Posted Jul 27, 2021
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My Octopus Teacher
(2020)
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Lisa Nesselson
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The footage is magnificent, and over the entire running time, I never grew tired of it.
Posted May 04, 2021
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
(2020)
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Lisa Nesselson
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A Black story for a Black ensemble, well-made and true to the material.
Posted May 04, 2021
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