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Review of Master Gardener (2023)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 17 Sep 2022

Master Gardener is all fingers and thumbs for much of its running time, kept sporadically in order only by the stern, trusty presence of Edgerton…

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Review of The Silent Twins (2022)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 14 Sep 2022

Layering one wild formal flourish over another — from macabre stop-motion animation to elaborately choreographed musical fantasies — to…

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Review of The Banshees of Inisherin (2022)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 05 Sep 2022

The result feels closer than any of his previous films to the barbed, intimate lyricism of McDonagh’s work as a playwright, and more deeply,…

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Review of A Couple (2022)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 04 Sep 2022

The final film is elegant and empathetic, but never quite emotionally involving: For all its rich, heightened articulation of a woman’s distress…

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Review of Argentina 1985 (2022)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 04 Sep 2022

That Argentina, 1985 managed to toggle between such emotionally raw material and more amped-up, tension-driven subplots — as Strassera and…

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Review of Instinct (2022)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 31 Jul 2022

For anyone who’s forgotten the extent of van Houten’s skill set, actress-turned-filmmaker Halina Reijn’s impressive, icily disciplined…

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Review of Joyride (2022)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 29 Jul 2022

Joyride needs some deft actors driving it, and it has lucked out: An up-for-anything Olivia Colman and scrappy newcomer Charlie Reid make for…

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Review of Purple Hearts (2022)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 29 Jul 2022

This glossy but gloopy Netflix original is primarily out to serve its leading lady’s legions of fans, some of them perhaps young enough not…

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Review of The Railway Children Return (2022)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 27 Jul 2022

Effectively piling nostalgia upon nostalgia upon nostalgia into a triple-layered Victorian sponge of particularly English sweetness, this good-natured,…

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Review of Fire Island (2022)

By Guy Lodge (731) for The Guardian (2,969) on 02 Jun 2022

The film’s moments of truth or constantly countered by moments of compromise: for every wicked detail targeted directly at the queer target…

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Review of Fire Island (2023)

By Guy Lodge (731) for The Guardian (2,969) on 02 Jun 2022

The film’s moments of truth or constantly countered by moments of compromise: for every wicked detail targeted directly at the queer target…

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Review of God's Creatures (2022)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 28 May 2022

The film’s formal flourishes are modest, centering the actors ahead of all else…

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Review of Nostalgia (2023)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 26 May 2022

Even in its more generic stretches, Martone’s latest feels both inviting and convincingly inhabited, a siren song to the past that confronts…

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Review of Stars at Noon (2022)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 26 May 2022

Trish is the plum part here, and a sensational Qualley — cycling through a ragged thrift-store wardrobe, with a lavish halo of dark curls…

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Review of Aftersun (2022)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 22 May 2022

Aftersun thus works elegantly as a kind of dual coming-of-age study, perfectly served by Mescal’s signature brand of softboi gentleness —…

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Review of One Fine Morning (2022)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 22 May 2022

It knows the fragility of quiet, which is sometimes the sound of inner peace, and sometimes, per that Prévert poem, the echoing unrest of…

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Review of Aftersun (2022)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 22 May 2022

Aftersun thus works elegantly as a kind of dual coming-of-age study, perfectly served by Mescal’s signature brand of softboi gentleness —…

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Review of The Bad Guys (2022)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 28 Mar 2022

Cheery and diverting as The Bad Guys is, it has all the emotional weight of a few crisp, stolen Benjamins…

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Review of You Are Not My Mother (2022)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 25 Mar 2022

Steeped in local folklore, it lets mythic and mind-based terrors exist side by side, allowing the viewer to interpret and believe what they…

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Review of How to Survive a Pandemic (2022)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 24 Mar 2022

Smart, humane and gripping even as it rakes over events all too fresh in our memories, How to Survive a Pandemic ends with plenty yet to be…

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Guy Lodge has written reviews for:

Los Angeles Times (12,977)
Variety (12,700)
Time Out (7,510)
Guardian (4,584)
Rolling Stone (4,035)
The Playlist (3,871)
Empire (3,446)
Empire Magazine (3,326)
The Guardian (2,969)
London Evening Standard (2,015)

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