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Virginia Quarterly Review

Virginia Quarterly Review is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Michelle Orange.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Honeyland (2019) Michelle Orange Merging a vérité ethos with hyperpolished execution, the intimacy of the filmmakers' access and a painterly, chiaroscuro aesthetic invite a particular type of wonder.
Posted Dec 04, 2020  Edit critic review
What Is Democracy? (2018) Michelle Orange One could imagine the place of Taylor's film in the classroom, though one would first have to imagine the kind of classroom this country appears bent on destroying.
Posted Aug 29, 2019  Edit critic review
The Tale (2018) Michelle Orange The framing of what happened to Jenny is flexible, expansive, interested in complication; the perspective is enigmatic, deeply personal, at once singular and manifold, insular and diffuse.
Posted Dec 07, 2018  Edit critic review
Voyeur (2017) Michelle Orange Voyeur makes apt use of a storytelling device more commonly associated with fiction: the unreliable narrator.
Posted Aug 28, 2018  Edit critic review
Risk (2016) Michelle Orange Poitras lacked either the nerve or the time to make of herself a truly unreliable narrator, and so a film with the potential for two unreliable narrators falters for having none.
Posted Aug 21, 2018  Edit critic review
Heart of a Dog (2015) Michelle Orange Nonlinear and exploratory, Heart of a Dog is elusive by design.
Posted Sep 11, 2017  Edit critic review
No Home Movie (2015) Michelle Orange ... the director's need for her subject carries an almost physical throb. Natalia is so richly anticipated in every patiently wrought, exquisitely framed tableau that her actual arrival within each one is almost beside the point.
Posted Sep 11, 2017  Edit critic review
Author: The JT LeRoy Story (2016) Michelle Orange ... the film's lack of a critical, considered perspective on the madness, some persuasive idea of [Laura] Albert and her coup, leaves the viewer feeling had.
Posted Sep 11, 2017  Edit critic review
Weiner (2016) Michelle Orange ... an otherwise riveting film, precisely because it engages in a form of documentary politics, wherein the identification and accounting for a subject's pathology constitutes drama, and drama's resolution.
Posted Sep 11, 2017  Edit critic review
Elle (2016) Michelle Orange ... Elle's success on the narrative high wire between daring psychodrama and rape-mongering is bound quite strictly to Huppert's performance as an act of repossession.
Posted Sep 11, 2017  Edit critic review
Toni Erdmann (2016) Michelle Orange Writer-director Maren Ade (Everyone Else) complicates her career woman, allowing her both cold-eyed pragmatism and very real potential for injury, blood that spurts red.
Posted Sep 11, 2017  Edit critic review
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