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Review of Falling for Figaro (2021)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Oct 2021

Expect no surprises in Falling for Figaro, a corny, cute-enough carpe diem comedy, in which it’s a lovable ensemble — led by Danielle Macdonald,…

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Review of The Blazing World (2021)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Oct 2021

Ambitious but tediously precious, sincerely conceived but derivatively realized, The Blazing World throws an ornate heap of production design…

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Review of Luzzu (2021)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 14 Oct 2021

An honest, affecting slab of working-class portraiture, altogether bracing with its thorny labor politics and salty sea air…

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Review of The Scary of Sixty-First (2021)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Oct 2021

A brash, gutsy, morbidly funny first feature from actor-filmmaker-podcaster Dasha Nekrasova, it runs on a premise that could have been written…

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Review of Knocking (2021)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 07 Oct 2021

Crisply made and gutsily performed as it is, this slender 78-minute film too often feels like pointed social allegory in search of a really…

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Review of Only You (2019)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 18 Sep 2021

It might do writer-director Harry Wootliff a disservice to call her mature, thoughtfully conceived debut feature Only You one of the latter,…

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Review of True Things (2022)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 18 Sep 2021

Harry Wootliff’s jaggedly grown-up psychological drama True Things thrives on the hot, tense chemistry between its two excellent leads: It’s…

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Review of The Starling (2021)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Sep 2021

Suffice it to say that The Starling’s emotional arcs are as narratively complete as they are psychologically dashed-off…

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Review of 7 Prisoners (2021)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 11 Sep 2021

7 Prisoners’ unfolds satisfyingly, precisely by not offering us complete satisfaction or certainty…

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Review of Boiling Point (2021)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 05 Sep 2021

There’s a barreling momentum to the filmmaking that feels true to the cut and thrust of restaurant life, regardless of the script’s digressions…

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Review of Best Sellers (2021)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 05 Sep 2021

Its portrait of an easy-target industry goes soft just when it needs a little added spine, while the film’s abrupt tonal transitions from…

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Review of Last Night in Soho (2021)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 04 Sep 2021

Wright’s particular affections for B-movies, British Invasion pop and a fast-fading pocket of urban London may be written all over the film,…

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Review of Julia (2021)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 03 Sep 2021

Julia offers us glimpses of a complex, brittle personality beneath the robust persona, but is either too cautious or too genuinely besotted…

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Review of Deception (2022)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 31 Aug 2021

Arnaud Desplechin’s Deception is a strange, stifling but frequently intriguing attempt to find a cinematic match for the literary voice of…

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Review of Deception (2022)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 31 Aug 2021

Arnaud Desplechin’s Deception is a strange, stifling but frequently intriguing attempt to find a cinematic match for the literary voice of…

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Review of The Night House (2021)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 23 Aug 2021

Screenwriters Ben Collins and Luke Piotrowski lay the foundations for a conventionally well-built haunted-house chiller…

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Review of Swan Song (2021)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 09 Aug 2021

An otherwise mild-mannered diversion from the American indie hinterland, Swan Song is the rare film to give this cult actor the center-stage…

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Review of Twist (2021)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 29 Jul 2021

Carol Reed’s “Oliver…

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Review of Blue Bayou (2021)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Jul 2021

Blue Bayou holds little back as it rails against the cruelties and hypocrisies of American immigration law to stirring effect — though this…

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Review of Drive My Car (2021)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 11 Jul 2021

Hamaguchi’s filmmaking, always accomplished, reaches new heights of refinement and sensory richness here, principally via Shinomiya’s immaculate,…

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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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