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Culture Trip is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Elizabeth Weitzman, Graham Fuller.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Love, Gilda (2018) Graham Fuller Scrapbook-y in design, Love, Gilda sustains an optimistic mood despite its subject's premature death. Above all, it is Gilda Radner's wisdom and self-knowledge that shine through.
Posted Sep 20, 2018  Edit critic review
Lizzie (2018) Graham Fuller This is a genuine pressure-cooker movie in which every sound and footfall is unbearably loud; shrill or keening noises on the soundtrack keep the viewer on edge.
Posted Sep 13, 2018  Edit critic review
Support the Girls (2018) Graham Fuller As scrappy and noisy as it is - Southern rock blares away on the soundtrack - Support the Girls is a laid-back working-class movie that's ideal viewing on a summer Friday night.
Posted Aug 23, 2018  Edit critic review
The Bookshop (2017) Graham Fuller It's an unsentimental - even strangely violent - and affecting movie that speaks to the current siege on reading, literacy and independent bookshops everywhere.
Posted Aug 15, 2018  Edit critic review
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (2018) Graham Fuller The Miseducation of Cameron Post reiterates that Akhavan is carving a niche for the depiction of gay people who won't allow their identities to be undermined or, worse, destroyed.
Posted Aug 08, 2018  Edit critic review
Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017) Graham Fuller A well-constructed film, Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood is likely to elicit a wide array of moral reactions.
Posted Aug 02, 2018  Edit critic review
Wanda (1970) Graham Fuller Just by living an unheroic life as millions of others live it, and by conveying its condition, a maker of art can show what's wrong with a society or culture. This is what Loden does brilliantly...
Posted Jul 16, 2018  Edit critic review
The Vampire Lovers (1970) Graham Fuller The psychology makes up for the fact that the film is terribly acted (Pitt aside) and cheaply staged.
Posted Jul 10, 2018  Edit critic review
Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti (2017) Graham Fuller A moderately satisfying biopic... Whatever satisfactions it affords, however, are compromised by the movie's evasions of the supposed truth.
Posted Jul 05, 2018  Edit critic review
The Looming Storm (2017) Graham Fuller Though grounded in the reality of recent Chinese history, it contrives to make many of the scenes seem like dreams within dreams. In this respect, it's pure cinema.
Posted Jun 29, 2018  Edit critic review
Woman Walks Ahead (2017) Graham Fuller White's atmospherically directed drama is a worthy addition to films that address the US Government's illegal seizure of Native American lands-and its genocidal policies.
Posted Jun 27, 2018  Edit critic review
End of Summer (2017) Graham Fuller End of Summer is deceptively slight and amiable on the surface. It is best understood as an effective three-way coming -of-age drama.
Posted Jun 27, 2018  Edit critic review
Arcadia (2016) Graham Fuller Arcadia is a kaleidoscopic critical commentary on how swathes of the British countryside have been eroded by increasing urbanization, resulting in despair, alienation, and pockets of spiritual malaise.
Posted Jun 20, 2018  Edit critic review
The Wild Boys (2017) Graham Fuller Playful... but also perverse and densely imagistic...
Posted Jun 13, 2018  Edit critic review
Rodin (2017) Graham Fuller They rather miss the point that Doillon presents Rodin and Claudel's relationship as a piece of beautiful marble that is slowly hewn away... Worse than the movie's so-called plodding-ness is its talkiness
Posted Jun 07, 2018  Edit critic review
The Last Witness (2018) Graham Fuller As the movie proceeds, it shrugs off its televisual atmosphere and pacing, becoming a brooding and increasingly fatalistic noir in which Stephen's opportunities for disclosing what he knows diminish until there are none left.
Posted May 24, 2018  Edit critic review
Bobby Robson: More Than a Manager (2018) Graham Fuller The journalistic level of the talking heads interviews in the film-and the anecdotes they come up with-is unusually rich, but that's down to Robson's inspirational quality.
Posted May 24, 2018  Edit critic review
Summer 1993 (2017) Graham Fuller The uncanny performance of Laia Artigas as Frida, who appears in every scene, holds Simon's movie together.
Posted May 23, 2018  Edit critic review
This Is Our Land (2017) Graham Fuller Lucas Belvaux's film about a French town simmering in right-wing hate is a frightening sign of the times.
Posted May 03, 2018  Edit critic review
You Were Never Really Here (2017) Graham Fuller You Were Never Really Here has been beautifully if discordantly crafted.
Posted Apr 12, 2018  Edit critic review
Where Is Kyra? (2017) Graham Fuller Michelle Pfeiffer's raw, lupine portrayal of Kyra captures the slow, miserable grind of creeping poverty and its debilitating effect on reason.
Posted Apr 05, 2018  Edit critic review
5/5
A Quiet Place (2018) Cassam Looch [A Quiet Place] is worth shouting about.
Posted Mar 30, 2018  Edit critic review
Red Sparrow (2018) Graham Fuller Frequently ludicrous, it is a powerful vehicle, nonetheless, for Lawrence as an unbreakable woman.
Posted Feb 21, 2018  Edit critic review
Loveless (2017) Graham Fuller Don't expect an Oliver Twist-like ending.
Posted Feb 16, 2018  Edit critic review
A Fantastic Woman (2017) Graham Fuller It's hard to imagine that a more beautiful screen romance will come along in 2018 than that between A Fantastic Woman's Marina (Daniela Vega) and Orlando (Francisco Reyes).
Posted Jan 31, 2018  Edit critic review
Vazante (2017) Graham Fuller It has the aura of a foundation myth-at times beautiful, at time squalid.
Posted Jan 18, 2018  Edit critic review
Faces Places (2017) Graham Fuller ... watching Faces Places is a reminder that there is a real country behind the fantasy one found in tourist brochures, or that of the haute, intellectual Paris.
Posted Jan 18, 2018  Edit critic review
4/5
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) Cassam Looch Prepare to be blown away by John Wick: Chapter 2 - easily better than the first film, even if it is just as incomprehensibly cool.
Posted Dec 28, 2017  Edit critic review
Darkest Hour (2017) Graham Fuller A stirring but flawed World War II film.
Posted Nov 30, 2017  Edit critic review
Mudbound (2017) Graham Fuller Except in one instance, the story is not overtly sentimentalized. Rees has been well served in this by her excellent ensemble.
Posted Nov 21, 2017  Edit critic review
Song of Granite (2017) Graham Fuller Song of Granite was filmed in black and white by Richard Kendrick and is staggeringly beautiful.
Posted Nov 16, 2017  Edit critic review
4/5
Call Me by Your Name (2017) Cassam Looch Arguably the most effective scene actually plays out over the end credits. We get to see the effect of all of this intense drama on Elio, but you'll have to see the film to find out how it all ends... and you won't regret it for a second.
Posted Nov 02, 2017  Edit critic review
Daughter of the Nile (1987) Graham Fuller [Hou Hsia-hsein's] observation of the fading, if garish, Taipei of the 1980s through the eyes of an as-yet-unformed young woman who has suffered tragedy and expects to suffer more endows the film with special poignancy.
Posted Nov 01, 2017  Edit critic review
2/5
Baby Driver (2017) Cassam Looch An irritating lead character, irritating use of music and an irritatingly smug tone throughout, all result in a deeply irritating film.
Posted Oct 24, 2017  Edit critic review
Atomic Blonde (2017) Cassam Looch Atomic Blonde is the clearest example in recent memory of a film that suffers for lack of a female director.
Posted Oct 24, 2017  Edit critic review
Thor: Ragnarok (2017) Cassam Looch Both [Cate] Blanchett (who is having a 'hela' good time as the Goddess of Death) and Tessa Thompson (as warrior Valkyrie) stand out in the male-dominated arena.
Posted Oct 19, 2017  Edit critic review
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) Graham Fuller Because Farrell, bushy-bearded here, clearly wasn't allowed to act sympathetically, it's hard to feel much empathy for Steven-a fatal error.
Posted Oct 19, 2017  Edit critic review
First They Killed My Father (2017) Marissa Carruthers Harrowing but moving, First They Killed My Father tells history through the innocent eyes of a child. The silence in the film is often over-powering, the scenes haunting and the enormity of what happened during these four years almost incomprehensible.
Posted Oct 12, 2017  Edit critic review
Lady Bird (2017) Graham Fuller A film of tenderness and wit, Lady Bird astutely captures the nature of the internecine warfare that habitually exists between girls in late adolescence and their mothers.
Posted Oct 12, 2017  Edit critic review
4/5
Blade Runner 2049 (2017) Cassam Looch As a one-two combination though, Blade Runner is a knockout masterpiece.
Posted Oct 05, 2017  Edit critic review
4/5
mother! (2017) Cassam Looch Mother! is going to mean different things to different people. Usually, a statement as broad as that feels like a cop out, but in this case it is not only true but clearly what the director himself wants the reaction to be.
Posted Sep 07, 2017  Edit critic review
Lemon (2017) Graham Fuller The button-pushing indie comedy Lemon seems like a character study of an obnoxious loser, but it's much more than that.
Posted Sep 07, 2017  Edit critic review
Polina (2016) Graham Fuller As a movie about finding your feet-in holding on to your essential self and relocating your mislaid artistic integrity-Polina is ultimately en pointe.
Posted Aug 25, 2017  Edit critic review
Crown Heights (2017) Graham Fuller This is a timely film about institutionalized racism in America, and related issues of ghettoization and violence within black communities. It won't get as much fanfare as Moonlight, but it needs to be seen.
Posted Aug 24, 2017  Edit critic review
The Only Living Boy in New York (2017) Graham Fuller Marc Webb's The Only Living Boy in New York is an Oedipal drama if ever there was one.
Posted Aug 17, 2017  Edit critic review
Dunkirk (2017) Graham Fuller Despite its underpopulated canvas, Dunkirk is an object lesson in vivid, non-gratuitous pictorialism.
Posted Jul 28, 2017  Edit critic review
To the Bone (2017) Graham Fuller It's the mesmerizing Collins, though, who holds the film together and makes it one of Netflix's most urgent. If you're a teenager, or have got teenage relatives, it's a must-see.
Posted Jul 14, 2017  Edit critic review
Lady Macbeth (2016) Graham Fuller As a reflection of the sick past in the cruel present, it glowers warningly -- an instant classic.
Posted Jul 13, 2017  Edit critic review
Crested Ibis (2017) Tom Birchenough One of the undoubted strengths of Qiao Liang's otherwise modest Crested Ibis is its sense of place.
Posted Jul 13, 2017  Edit critic review
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk (2016) Graham Fuller Never mind the technical innovations, Stewart and the affecting newcomer Alwyn are the two main reasons why Billy Lynn deserves our votes this week.
Posted Jun 28, 2017  Edit critic review
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