Divia (Hreshko, 2025)
It is hard for me to evaluate Divia, since the element I value most in films, narrative, is at best implied and at worst totally absent. The film’s notes describe… Continue reading "Divia (Hreshko, 2025)"
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Good Fortune (Ansari, 2025)
The body-swapping conceit of Good Fortune is tired and overused, but the film’s execution of it is so good that it manages to transcend the constraints of recycling a familiar… Continue reading "Good Fortune (Ansari, 2025)"
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300 Letters (Santa Ana, 2025)
Warning–this review mentions plot points that may be considered spoilers. I wrote in a review of One Big Happy Family that films about groups or cultures to which one does… Continue reading "300 Letters (Santa Ana, 2025)"
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Roofman (Cianfrance, 2025)
Roofman is either a morally confused movie or a morally confusing one. The film opens with Jeffrey Manchester (Channing Tatum) robbing a McDonald’s with some kind of shotgun, marching the… Continue reading "Roofman (Cianfrance, 2025)"
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The War Between (Correa, 2025)
The War Between works slightly better as an illustrated history lesson than as a feature film. Westerns have been a staple of American film since its inception, partially because of… Continue reading "The War Between (Correa, 2025)"
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Naked Ambition (Scholl and Tabsch, 2023
Naked Ambition is an affable documentary that is brimming with interesting tidbits and vignettes about the life and work of model turned photographer Bunny Yeager. What keeps it in the… Continue reading "Naked Ambition (Scholl and Tabsch, 2023"
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Just the Two of Us (Donzelli, 2023)
Just the Two of Us puts the Tolstoy adage about families to the test. The Russian master opined in Anna Karenina that all happy families are alike, while unhappy families… Continue reading "Just the Two of Us (Donzelli, 2023)"
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The Glassworker (Riaz, 2025)
The Glassworker straddles the fence between knock-off and homage. I think it falls on the wrong side of that divide. Show the picture above to a dozen cinephiles, and I… Continue reading "The Glassworker (Riaz, 2025)"
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Suspended Time (Assayas, 2024)
Suspended Time is the first narrative set during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in which I recognized elements of my own experience of the time. The World Health Organization reports that… Continue reading "Suspended Time (Assayas, 2024)"
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Hola Frida (Kadi and Vézina, 2024)
Hola Frida is a film so winsome in its conception that it is almost impossible to criticize it for perceived flaws in its execution. The Frida of the title is… Continue reading "Hola Frida (Kadi and Vézina, 2024)"