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Kill Your Darlings

Kill Your Darlings is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Anwen Crawford, Lauren Carroll Harris, Rochelle Siemienowicz.

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Acute Misfortune (2018) Lauren Carroll Harris [It] explores both the destructive masculinity upon which Cullen built his personal mythology, and the way Australian culture romanticises blokey dysfunction.
Posted Jun 03, 2019  Edit critic review
Let the Sunshine In (2017) Lauren Carroll Harris Stay open to life, never close down. To me, Let The Sunshine In seems a great film.
Posted May 01, 2019  Edit critic review
Vox Lux (2018) Lauren Carroll Harris I suspect, however, that Corbet's aims are actually more modest than many critics have credited: to create a fun, irony-drenched visual story that skips through a frenzied life with the rhythm of a video clip.
Posted Feb 22, 2019  Edit critic review
Unsane (2018) Lauren Carroll Harris Its stalker logic feels real and converges its form with its content: medical industry connivances conspire with the perversion of romantic love
Posted May 03, 2018  Edit critic review
Drinking Buddies (2013) Rochelle Siemienowicz Surprisingly wise.
Posted Oct 26, 2017  Edit critic review
Le Week-End (2013) Rochelle Siemienowicz Beautifully written and performed, there are biting truths here that will resonate with anyone who's lived in a long term relationship.
Posted Oct 26, 2017  Edit critic review
All Is Lost (2013) Rochelle Siemienowicz Powerful.
Posted Oct 25, 2017  Edit critic review
Nebraska (2013) Rochelle Siemienowicz Nebraska manages to maintain a perky outlook, while still being bleakly realistic about ageing and the experience of living with persistent regrets and disappointments.
Posted Oct 25, 2017  Edit critic review
The Past (2013) Rochelle Siemienowicz A superb and engrossing relationship drama.
Posted Oct 25, 2017  Edit critic review
Enough Said (2013) Rochelle Siemienowicz Enough said hits all the right buttons.
Posted Oct 25, 2017  Edit critic review
Muppets Most Wanted (2014) Rochelle Siemienowicz Cheesy but heart-warming.
Posted Oct 25, 2017  Edit critic review
The LEGO Movie (2014) Rochelle Siemienowicz Colourful, inventive and action-packed.
Posted Oct 25, 2017  Edit critic review
52 Tuesdays (2013) Rochelle Siemienowicz The desire to look - at others and at oneself - is taken for granted as a natural and healthy one in 52 Tuesdays.
Posted Oct 25, 2017  Edit critic review
Young & Beautiful (2013) Rochelle Siemienowicz It made me squirm.
Posted Oct 25, 2017  Edit critic review
Child's Pose (2013) Rochelle Siemienowicz A gripping and thought-provoking drama that touches on the nature of grief and class corruption in the new Romania, the heart of Child's Pose is nevertheless its convincing study of a power struggle between mother and adult child.
Posted Oct 25, 2017  Edit critic review
The Babadook (2014) Rochelle Siemienowicz Jagged thrusts of dark humour pepper the scary stuff and will appeal to any less-than-perfect mother who has 'lost it' in the heat of the moment.
Posted Oct 25, 2017  Edit critic review
Noah (2014) Rochelle Siemienowicz This Noah, embodied by [Russel] Crowe, is a pure Aronofsky monster.
Posted Oct 25, 2017  Edit critic review
Nymphomaniac: Volume I (2014) Rochelle Siemienowicz The absurd (sometimes frankly adolescent and silly) digressions and increasingly complex interplay between Joe and her patient listener allow for an exploration of guilt, compulsion and the nature of evil, in ways we've never seen before.
Posted Oct 25, 2017  Edit critic review
Nymphomaniac: Volume II (2013) Rochelle Siemienowicz The most interesting pieces of art are often the messy, dirty ones; the canvases we're not sure whether to ridicule for their lunacy or embrace for their sheer, inspired originality.
Posted Oct 25, 2017  Edit critic review
Boyhood (2014) Rochelle Siemienowicz Boyhood is a sublime meditation on childhood, parenting, and the passing of time.
Posted Oct 25, 2017  Edit critic review
Force majeure (2014) Rochelle Siemienowicz Bursts of intense Vivaldi underline the crisis as deadly serious, while also making fun of it. The way the conflict plays out in conversations between the couple and their friends over dinners and drinks is side-splittingly funny.
Posted Oct 25, 2017  Edit critic review
Maps to the Stars (2014) Rochelle Siemienowicz It's bleak, funny and twisted.
Posted Oct 25, 2017  Edit critic review
Gone Girl (2014) Rochelle Siemienowicz And while nobody is going to call Gone Girl a commentary on modern marriage, like all good horror stories, it pokes and punctures familiar anxieties, providing a pleasurable lancing of the psychic boils that plague us.
Posted Oct 25, 2017  Edit critic review
Whiplash (2014) Rochelle Siemienowicz Without guns, knives or fistfights, Whiplash manages to be explosive and yes, dramatically violent - it's just that the violence is largely emotional, and often self-inflicted.
Posted Oct 25, 2017  Edit critic review
Nightcrawler (2014) Rochelle Siemienowicz Nightcrawler [works] as a stylish and exciting thriller.
Posted Oct 25, 2017  Edit critic review
Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014) Rochelle Siemienowicz The real problem I had with Scott's Exodus however, was with the film's depiction of God - admittedly never an easy character to get right.
Posted Oct 24, 2017  Edit critic review
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) Anwen Crawford A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night deftly mixes genre tropes while creating its own singular, surreal universe. I've never seen another a film where a female vampire dressed in a chador rides a skateboard, that's for sure.
Posted Sep 12, 2017  Edit critic review
Macbeth (2015) Anwen Crawford This is a Macbeth that retains Shakespeare's language but makes free and easy with edits, rearrangements, and a few bold reinterpretations of key scenes.
Posted Sep 12, 2017  Edit critic review
Selma (2014) Anwen Crawford Selma gives back to the Civil Rights movement its urgent and motivating anger, when too often the movement has been misrepresented as a cause of infinitely patient, infinitely forbearing martyrs.
Posted Sep 12, 2017  Edit critic review
The Gift (2015) Anwen Crawford The Gift is efficiently and quite memorably chilling.
Posted Sep 12, 2017  Edit critic review
Sherpa (2015) Anwen Crawford In [Jennifer] Peedom's film we see a mountain that is both workplace and sacred site, integral to both the economic livelihood and the religious beliefs of the surrounding Sherpa community.
Posted Sep 12, 2017  Edit critic review
Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) Anwen Crawford Borrow a young relative for cover if you must, but believe me, you are not too cool for a kid's movie when it's this much fun.
Posted Sep 12, 2017  Edit critic review
A Most Violent Year (2014) Anwen Crawford A Most Violent Year is uneven in pace and tone, as events threaten to erupt and then simmer down again, but despite its flaws, it lingers in the mind.
Posted Sep 12, 2017  Edit critic review
It Follows (2014) Anwen Crawford It Follows is unnerving without being bloody, and more than this, that it cleverly inverts the sexual politics on which so much popular culture, most especially the horror film, often depends.
Posted Sep 12, 2017  Edit critic review
Killing Ground (2016) Lauren Carroll Harris I can't help but think that Killing Ground leans on the concept of spiritual comeuppance for Indigenous genocide as a potent but lazy background theme with which to bolster an otherwise rote narrative and set of filmmaking choices.
Posted Sep 06, 2017  Edit critic review
Joe Cinque's Consolation (2016) Lauren Carroll Harris Perhaps it's not possible to translate the gonzo narrator, leading us into a dark-edged forest and getting lost with us, to cinema. Perhaps the material really cried out for a documentary treatment.
Posted Jul 19, 2017  Edit critic review
Lion (2016) Lauren Carroll Harris What Lion does is take a culturally rich story and apply the conventions of middlebrow Western, feel-good cinematic storytelling.
Posted Jul 19, 2017  Edit critic review
Casting JonBenét (2017) Lauren Carroll Harris By setting aside an objective notion of the truth, Green's hybrid work is simultaneously more fantastical and closer to the truth than anything made with traditional documentary techniques.
Posted Jul 19, 2017  Edit critic review
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