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Review of Everybody's Talking About Jamie (2021)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 26 Aug 2021

There’s abundant joy, spirited resilience and sweet humor on tap that should be especially infectious for young LGBTQ audiences, or anyone…

Review of Demonic (2021)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 26 Aug 2021

In the end, Demonic is all simulation, no real scares…

Review of Everybody's Talking About Jamie (2021)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 26 Aug 2021

There’s abundant joy, spirited resilience and sweet humor on tap that should be especially infectious for young LGBTQ audiences, or anyone…

Review of Candyman (2021)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 25 Aug 2021

Director Nia DaCosta, working from a script she wrote with Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld, uses Bernard Rose’s 1992 film as a jumping-off…

Review of Reminiscence (2021)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 18 Aug 2021

In a movie this overloaded with plot, the revelations are like a leaky faucet, just like that purple voiceover…

Review of Respect (2021)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 08 Aug 2021

A powerful account of self-actualization spanning 20 formative years, Liesl Tommy’s biopic is also an intimate gift of love, rich in complexity,…

Review of Pray Away (2021)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 06 Aug 2021

The film is measured yet forceful, never strident in making its point…

Review of Beckett (2021)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 04 Aug 2021

Directed with a workmanlike lack of style by Ferdinando Cito Filomarino and written by Kevin A…

Review of Jungle Cruise (2021)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 27 Jul 2021

The absence of a light touch here means that even the teasing banter and sexual tension between appealing leads Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt…

Review of LAMB (2021)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 26 Jul 2021

Lamb is a disturbing experience but also a highly original take on the anxieties of being a parent, a tale in which nature plus nurture yields…

Review of The Green Knight (2021)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 26 Jul 2021

It embraces the strange remoteness of myth and Middle Ages lore on its own terms and creates something quietly dazzling and new…

Review of Lamb (2021)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 26 Jul 2021

Lamb is a disturbing experience but also a highly original take on the anxieties of being a parent, a tale in which nature plus nurture yields…

Review of A Chiara (2021)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 17 Jul 2021

Wrapping up his stories is never Carpignano’s strong point and at two full hours, this one could have used greater economy…

Review of Memoria (2021)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 17 Jul 2021

The beautiful closing landscape shots of the jungles and mountains suggest that memory extends even beyond the human dimension…

Review of The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 16 Jul 2021

Bursting at the seams with hand-crafted visual delights and eccentric performances from a stacked ensemble entirely attuned to the writer-director’s…

Review of Blue Bayou (2021)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 16 Jul 2021

There’s enormous heart behind Justin Chon’s drama, and wrenching performances full of feeling from the writer-director and his co-star…

Review of Red Rocket (2021)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 14 Jul 2021

At a little over two hours, Red Rocket suffers mildly from prolix stretches, and just like The Florida Project, it could have used some tightening…

Review of Compartment No. 6 (2021)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 12 Jul 2021

As dour as it often seems with its reek of stale booze and cigarette smoke, there’s joy here for patient audiences willing to find it, and…

Review of The Velvet Underground (2021)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 12 Jul 2021

Making ingenious use of split-screen, experimental montage and densely layered images and sound over two fabulously entertaining hours, Haynes…

Review of Flag Day (2021)

By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 10 Jul 2021

It’s just too bad there’s not more of a personal stamp on the material to rescue it from its indie-film clichés…

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