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Los Angeles Review of Books

Los Angeles Review of Books is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Asher Luberto, Elissa Suh, Jourdain Searles, K. Austin Collins, Lili Loofbourow, Manuel Betancourt, Natalia Winkelman, Sarah Fonseca.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Babygirl (2024) Jourdain Searles American cinema has always had a prudish approach to sexuality on-screen, linking kinks with villainy and mental instability. But Kidman has long gravitated toward sexual characters, and Babygirl is an ideal showcase for her fearless physicality.
Posted Feb 21, 2025  Edit critic review
Past Lives (2023) Asher Luberto Past Lives is a film about time, missed opportunities and enduring connections, and Song ably juxtaposes private reflection with romantic longing.
Posted Aug 08, 2023  Edit critic review
Drive My Car (2021) Elissa Suh In Drive My Car, Japanese director Rysuke Hamaguchi pressurizes the foundering emotional isolation in the Haruki Murakami story on which it is based to create an absorbing and discursive melodrama about communication, passivity, and regret.
Posted Mar 02, 2022  Edit critic review
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019) Natalia Winkelman A heart-warmer and well-timed balm with a homespun quality that's hugely endearing.
Posted Dec 26, 2019  Edit critic review
Lost & Found (2017) Charles Taylor "The trick is just in understanding how to invite the spirit into the reality of each situation." Forty-seven years after it was filmed, this is the possibility of deliverance that Amazing Grace holds out to us.
Posted Jun 24, 2019  Edit critic review
Spotlight (2015) Charles Taylor Spotlight joins the ranks of the great American muckraking pictures, from I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang to On the Waterfront, All the President's Men, and The Border.
Posted Jan 18, 2019  Edit critic review
Paterson (2016) Charles Taylor Driver marries the surface stoicism of the classic male hero with the rich inner life of a man of deep feeling. And that's why we feel so close to him.
Posted Jan 18, 2019  Edit critic review
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) Charles Taylor Malek holds the movie together through its shaky passages.
Posted Jan 18, 2019  Edit critic review
Vox Lux (2018) Natalia Winkelman It succeeds in spinning an audacious and provocative pop tale, and one that, incidentally, stands in opposition to the mushy earworm of a moral offered up in A Star is Born.
Posted Jan 14, 2019  Edit critic review
Roma (2018) Scout Tafoya Roma is a colossal mistake, a series of miscalculations born of unchecked hubris and hideous classism, the kind of film that drags the rest of its director's body of work down with it.
Posted Jan 10, 2019  Edit critic review
The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) Max Nelson What redeems the film, to my mind, is the productive tension it sets up between its melancholic picture of Europe in decay and the manic, whiz-bang adventure story that makes up its central narrative.
Posted Aug 08, 2018  Edit critic review
Chi-Raq (2015) K. Austin Collins This is no mere thought experiment. Can satire stop a bullet? Likely not. But it can provoke those of us who haven't, and can.
Posted Aug 09, 2017  Edit critic review
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