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Review of Wounds (2019)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 02 Feb 2019

Voracious genre consumers should get off on trying to decipher the densely textured film's murky ambiguities…

Review of I Am Mother (2019)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 02 Feb 2019

The problem is that despite his considerable skills, Sputore is so caught up with the cool technology he loses his grip on both the suspense…

Review of Give Me Liberty (2019)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 01 Feb 2019

Mikhanovsky and Austen train an affectionate gaze on their characters, both as individuals and as part of distinct groups that intersect and…

Review of Official Secrets (2019)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 01 Feb 2019

Hood (Eye in the Sky), his co-screenwriters Sara and Gregory Bernstein and a seasoned ensemble of Brit stage and screen pros deliver a straightforward,…

Review of Clemency (2019)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 01 Feb 2019

It's the humanity and compassion invested across all the principal characters that makes this contemplative examination of the terrible weight…

Review of The Lodge (2020)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 01 Feb 2019

While the filmmakers' control of mood, menacing atmosphere and unsettling spatial dynamics remains arresting, their story sense grows shaky…

Review of Light from Light (2019)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 01 Feb 2019

Modest in scale but rich in sensitivity, this is an unassuming film, made all the more transfixing by its defining delicacy and understatement…

Review of The Farewell (2019)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 01 Feb 2019

Wang shows an assured grasp of tone, a pleasing eye for unforced composition and a persuasive understanding of the immigrant cultural experience,…

Review of After the Wedding (2019)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 29 Jan 2019

Bart Freundlich's American remake of the Bier film flips the gender of the main characters, yielding predictably strong performances from Julianne…

Review of Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

By David Rooney (943) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 12 Dec 2018

Sticking close to the enduring classic's template while injecting plenty of freshness to give the follow-up its own distinct repro vitality,…

Review of Hits (2014)

By David Rooney (943) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 19 Nov 2018

Hits: a frequently funny but easy-prey satire about America's obsession with fame, displaying a small-screen sensibility that extends from…

Review of The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 31 Oct 2018

It's a Frankenstein's monster…

Review of What You Gonna Do When the World's on Fire? (2019)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 15 Sep 2018

This is in many ways a frustrating film, its commitment admirable but its execution chaotic…

Review of Our time (2019)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 12 Sep 2018

This navel-gazing epic is maddeningly distancing at almost every turn, lacking the spiritual and existential breadth of even Reygadas’ most…

Review of J.T. LeRoy (2019)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 11 Sep 2018

For a movie about what’s going on under the elaborately staged surface, it’s pretty much all surface, right down to its shallow observations…

Review of Life Itself (2018)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 10 Sep 2018

It’s contrived at every turn and talky like a French film, though 100 percent American indie in its earnest conviction that it’s saying…

Review of If Beale Street Could Talk (2018)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 09 Sep 2018

If the movie’s slow burn seems to build toward a powerful release that doesn’t materialize, the sheer beauty of its craft and the heartfelt…

Review of Charlie Says (2019)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 07 Sep 2018

As a portrait of bogus revolutionary rhetoric used to undermine and control women, it’s thoughtful and provocative…

Review of The Nightingale (2018)

By David Rooney (943) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 05 Sep 2018

If The Nightingale doesn’t quite fulfill the high expectations for Kent’s sophomore feature, it still shows a director with a muscular…

Review of 22 July (2018)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 04 Sep 2018

It's both a pulse-pounding depiction of the deadly attacks that shook Norway in 2011 and a sober investigation of the aftermath, evolving into…

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