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Harper's Bazaar is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Candice Frederick, Emma Dibdin, Max Gao, Tomris Laffly, Yasmin Omar, Yolanda Machado.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
Will & Harper (2024) Tomris Laffly Emotional, funny, and charged with a sense of vulnerability, Will & Harper is a beautiful thing.
Posted Feb 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Soundtrack to a Coup d'État (2024) Tomris Laffly What Grimonprez creates here is a mind-blowingly rich tapestry of research, music, and the jazziest history lesson imaginable, with freewheeling beats and riffs echoing into today with urgent purpose.
Posted Feb 05, 2024  Edit critic review
A Real Pain (2024) Tomris Laffly Understated, funny, and gradually heart-swelling, writer-director Jesse Eisenberg’s Chopin-kissed sophomore feature is as graceful as movies come. Expect to hear about this one in the next awards season.
Posted Feb 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Presence (2024) Tomris Laffly Chilling in its freewheeling camerawork and unexpectedly heartbreaking, Soderbergh’s latest takes us back to the timeless cinematic basics of sad ghosts with unfinished business and delivers something formally fresh that renews the supernatural genre.
Posted Feb 05, 2024  Edit critic review
My Old Ass (2024) Tomris Laffly [Megan] Park’s sophomore feature is sweet, locally specific, funny, and gradually heartbreaking in the most inventive fashion (bring tissues), one that maturely celebrates girlhood and young romance shame-free, with disarming sincerity.
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Love Lies Bleeding (2024) Tomris Laffly The infectious wildness of Love Lies Bleeding is simply a turn-on.
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Look Into My Eyes (2024) Tomris Laffly With a cozy but respectful camera, a considerate tone and a profound understanding of urban alienation, Wilson puts forth something that will make every New Yorker—or anyone who’s ever sat with unprocessed grief and suffering—feel a little less alone.
Posted Feb 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Good One (2024) Tomris Laffly Subtly dark, humorous, and wise, Good One leans into its wilderness backdrop in all of its liberating (and, sometimes, paradoxically claustrophobic) properties.
Posted Feb 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Girls Will Be Girls (2024) Tomris Laffly A resonant and impeccably written film on generational female awakening, mother-daughter affection and rivalry, and bodily autonomy, Girls Will Be Girls is exactly the kind of feminine coming-of-age film (for any age) that we need more of.
Posted Feb 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Ghostlight (2024) Tomris Laffly A beautifully woven tale on the constructive ways that life and art reflect, propel, and imitate each other, offering human beings curious enough to welcome artistic pursuits into their lives a path forward.
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Gaucho Gaucho (2024) Tomris Laffly These filmmakers have enormous reserves of love and empathy for traditions that miraculously survive in spite of the modern world. And their compassion has never looked more cinematic.
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Exhibiting Forgiveness (2024) Tomris Laffly Art comes to the rescue, as Exhibiting Forgiveness lends its healing hand on everyone, on and off the screen.
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A Different Man (2024) Tomris Laffly If you’re even remotely beguiled by the enigmatic rhythms and mystery-soaked visuals of David Cronenberg and David Lynch, then allow Aaron Schimberg’s surreal third feature to lure you into its gothic vision of New York City’s artistic underbelly.
Posted Feb 05, 2024  Edit critic review
Daughters (2024) Tomris Laffly It’s hard to imagine a sharper critique of our dehumanizing prison system than this bighearted, deeply empathetic tearjerker by Angela Patton and Natalie Rae.
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Black Box Diaries (2024) Tomris Laffly Black Box Diaries is a generous, courageous, and ultimately hopeful film end to end, cementing Ito—named by Time as one of the world’s most influential people in 2020—as a significant new voice.
Posted Feb 05, 2024  Edit critic review
The Eternal Memory (2023) Tomris Laffly Get tissues ready to witness one of the most selfless and patient forms of love that graced our screens, shared and magnified through pockets of joy that Alberdi’s camera celebrates with a generous side of empathy and sense of humor.
Posted Feb 15, 2023  Edit critic review
Rye Lane (2023) Tomris Laffly Just when everyone’s too eager to declare the eternal demise of rom-coms comes along Raine Allen-Miller’s shimmering Rye Lane, a witty London-set genre entry where the vibrant outfits are as stylish and free-spirited as the movie they dress.
Posted Feb 15, 2023  Edit critic review
Past Lives (2023) Tomris Laffly Telling a delicate tale about missed connections, what ifs and the parts of ourselves we keep buried within, Past Lives might just be the most singularly exquisite film of this year’s Sundance.
Posted Feb 15, 2023  Edit critic review
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (2023) Tomris Laffly Hypnotic, intimate and blisteringly honest. No topic is off limits to [the film's] spiritual sisters as they sweat to cleanse their souls and bodies while also purifying the essence of their viewers.
Posted Feb 15, 2023  Edit critic review
KOKOMO CITY (2023) Tomris Laffly As a Black and trans filmmaker, Smith refreshingly creates the space for [her subjects] to be provocative, raw and daringly glamorous in her taboo-breaking work filmed in gleaming black-and-white and edited with a fiery spirit.
Posted Feb 15, 2023  Edit critic review
Flora and Son (2023) Tomris Laffly An old-school, old-fashioned and beautiful telling of a long-distance romance, but not without something new to say on kinships built in the digital age. This beautiful film will make your heart sing.
Posted Feb 14, 2023  Edit critic review
Fancy Dance (2023) Tomris Laffly Erica Tremblay’s bold and confident debut Fancy Dance immediately cements her as a brand-new Debra Granik or Taylor Sheridan, with an assured voice entirely her own.
Posted Feb 14, 2023  Edit critic review
birth/rebirth (2023) Tomris Laffly A fiendish and atmospheric riff on classic monster legends and a welcome addition to a certain horror sub-genre propelled by brawny but burdened mamas.
Posted Feb 14, 2023  Edit critic review
Beyond Utopia (2023) Tomris Laffly Unforgiving, high-stakes and clear-eyed about the devastatingly brainwashing powers of elongated oppression, Beyond Utopia will be talked about well into the awards season with its extraordinary vision.
Posted Feb 14, 2023  Edit critic review
20 Days in Mariupol (2023) Tomris Laffly Watching Chernov’s film is a humanitarian duty.
Posted Feb 14, 2023  Edit critic review
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt (2023) Tomris Laffly An expressive tone poem and a rural visual tapestry of dreamy richness, Raven Jackson’s unusually assured feature debut grabs you by the heart.
Posted Feb 14, 2023  Edit critic review
Speak No Evil (2022) Tomris Laffly Critiquing forced pleasantries as much as a certain style of parenting guided by kids' irrational tantrums, Tafdrup cements that the age-old parental advice was indeed a very good one: Never talk to strangers.
Posted Feb 02, 2022  Edit critic review
Palm Trees and Power Lines (2022) Tomris Laffly Palm Trees and Power Lines goes somewhere even darker than Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank, with a brave query into the notion of consent and a gut-wrenching parting note that feels like a scream stuck in one's throat.
Posted Feb 02, 2022  Edit critic review
Piggy (2022) Tomris Laffly Pereda fashions a startling character study that veers into grand questions around morality, dejection, revenge, and justice, but one that smartly refuses to deliver easy answers.
Posted Feb 02, 2022  Edit critic review
Mija (2022) Tomris Laffly An aching valentine to the strength of hardworking, undocumented immigrants, as well as a compassionate validation of the pressure their American-born offspring feel on the road to their parents' hard-earned citizenship.
Posted Feb 02, 2022  Edit critic review
Navalny (2022) Tomris Laffly They don't make espionage pictures like they used to. Then again, here's Navalny, which could easily pass for a Costa-Gavras political thriller or the next Bourne chapter.
Posted Feb 02, 2022  Edit critic review
Cha Cha Real Smooth (2022) Tomris Laffly This delicate and unadulteratedly pro-romance film makes the ultimate statement on the idea of soul mates, mourning the tragedy of letting go of one with an abundant side of optimism.
Posted Feb 02, 2022  Edit critic review
Fire of Love (2022) Tomris Laffly With its quirky New Wave-adjacent cadences, Sara Dosa's sizzling Fire of Love proves that no one can narrate a fiery romance better than Miranda July's airily ethereal voice.
Posted Feb 02, 2022  Edit critic review
Descendant (2022) Tomris Laffly A disquieting film with enduring significance [that] brings a sense of historical closure and validation to its [subjects].
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All That Breathes (2022) Tomris Laffly Humanity comes in its most selfless in All That Breathes, [which adopts] the interconnectedness of nature and mankind as a guiding principle.
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After Yang (2021) Tomris Laffly A meditative, low-key sci-fi of soulful gestures and grand existential probes.
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Watcher (2022) Tomris Laffly A stunning gaslighting whodunit, [with] a blood-curdling villain for the ages.
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A House Made of Splinters (2022) Tomris Laffly With a camera that feels both urgent and unassuming, Wilmont proves he's unambiguously earned the trust of his tiny subjects of colossal worries-a feat on so many different levels that concerns both outstanding filmmaking and exemplary humanism.
Posted Feb 02, 2022  Edit critic review
A Love Song (2022) Tomris Laffly Both Dickey and Studi deliver deeply spiritual performances, harmonizing their gazes and bodily moves in an achingly restrained dance, against nature's mystical grandeur.
Posted Feb 02, 2022  Edit critic review
5/5
William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet (1996) Yasmin Omar This glitter bomb of a film explodes the play and builds it back up again... result[ing] in a truly unforgettable cinematic experience.
Posted Nov 05, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
Spencer (2021) Yasmin Omar The film is a celebration of a woman who refused to colour within the lines and let her rainbow shine forth, consequences be damned.
Posted Nov 05, 2021  Edit critic review
3/5
Last Night in Soho (2021) Yasmin Omar A thoroughly entertaining descent into the squalor lurking behind London's thrumming nightlife.
Posted Oct 29, 2021  Edit critic review
3/5
Black Widow (2021) Yasmin Omar Black Widow is not a bad film, nevertheless it feels like a wasted opportunity.
Posted Jul 05, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
Bridesmaids (2011) Yasmin Omar With laugh-out-loud displays of pettiness, pride and passive-aggression, the movie incisively examines the delicate dynamics of a female friendship group.
Posted Jun 25, 2021  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Girls Trip (2017) Yasmin Omar Expect start-to-finish hilarity, of both a sexual and scatological nature.
Posted Jun 25, 2021  Edit critic review
5/5
Lady Bird (2017) Yasmin Omar Saoirse Ronan's stunning portrayal of adolescence is completely lacking in vanity.
Posted Jun 25, 2021  Edit critic review
5/5
Call Me by Your Name (2017) Yasmin Omar The blossoming romance between these two men, that unfurls over six sun-dappled weeks in northern Italy, is utterly ravishing.
Posted Jun 25, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
The Shape of Water (2017) Yasmin Omar Without making a sound, Hawkins delivers a moving, entirely gestural performance that has charmed critics.
Posted Jun 25, 2021  Edit critic review
4/5
The Post (2017) Yasmin Omar Meryl Streep, as we have come to expect, is a force to be reckoned with in The Post, spitting out mile-a-minute dialogue and wrestling with the moral dilemma of printing the Pentagon Papers.
Posted Jun 25, 2021  Edit critic review
4.5/5
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) Yasmin Omar This is a flashy filmic landscape of expertly choreographed fight sequences and bubble-written onomatopoeia splattered across frames.
Posted Jun 25, 2021  Edit critic review
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