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Review of La Llorona (2019)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 06 Aug 2020

Its tightening tension seeks to push frayed characters to eventually tell on themselves…

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Review of Unhinged (2020)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 30 Jul 2020

The carnage is the point here, not any of the reasoning behind it, and Borte and Crowe bring it to a suitably frothing, furious head: Some…

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Review of Shine Your Eyes (2020)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 30 Jul 2020

If the setup intrigues slightly more than the payoff, this is still a work of original, crystalline beauty, bursting with restless, refracted ideas…

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Review of Archive (2020)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 09 Jul 2020

The sleek result, like the scientist’s hi-tech Frankenstein creation, impressively looks and sounds the part, without quite having a soul…

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Review of Archive (2020)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 09 Jul 2020

The sleek result, like the scientist’s hi-tech Frankenstein creation, impressively looks and sounds the part, without quite having a soul…

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Review of 7500 (2019)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Jun 2020

For its first half, 7500 is briskly effective in a cold-sweat sort of way, carrying its audience from a smooth takeoff to the first signs of…

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Review of Fourteen (2020)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 18 May 2020

A wise, graceful but viciously felt study of middle-school best friends whose bond becomes a burden the further they recede into adulthood,…

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Review of Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story (2020)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 30 Apr 2020

What begins as seemingly another lurid Netflix true-crime excavation emerges as a considerably more affecting testament to the damage wrought…

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Review of A Secret Love (2020)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 27 Apr 2020

At once a misty-eyed romance and a harsh depiction of the practical and emotional challenges of giving up independent living, A Secret Love…

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Review of Four Kids and It (2020)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 06 Apr 2020

“Careful what you wish for” may have been the essential moral takeaway from the source books, but that wasn’t to discourage wishing for…

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Review of Escape from Pretoria (2020)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 06 Mar 2020

Francis Annan’s film works effectively as a straight-up jailbreak thriller, well-oiled in greasy B-movie tradition…

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Review of Charlatan (2021)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 28 Feb 2020

Caught between a respectful tribute to Mikolášek’s medical achievements and a more salacious examination of his moral transgressions —…

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Review of Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue (2021)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 28 Feb 2020

The result, though intermittently stirring and often luminously shot, represents something of a chore for all but the most ardent Jia completists…

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Review of Funny Face (2021)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 26 Feb 2020

Oddly, Funny Face feels more like a promising but overreaching debut than any of his earlier films, particularly at the level of its slender…

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Review of Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were Made (2020)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 06 Feb 2020

The quiet humanity of McCarthy’s filmmaking meshes oddly with the material’s zanier demands, finally reaching an anodyne middle ground…

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Review of Welcome to Chechnya (2020)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 02 Feb 2020

The ironically inviting title only hints at part of the story in this wholly devastating documentary: The crisis, it turns out, is all around us…

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Review of Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 26 Jan 2020

At once a celebration and a lament, simultaneously jubilant and ineffably sad, it’s a film worth sticking around to see…

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Review of The Murder of Nicole Brown Simpson (2020)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 11 Jan 2020

It’s a cheap, unloving death march of a movie — scarcely made more intriguing by the half-cooked theory it posits as to who (or how many)…

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Review of The Gentlemen (2020)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 19 Dec 2019

The actors, splendidly kitted out in autumnal suiting and knitwear by costume designer Michael Wilkinson, have what fun they can with such…

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Review of My Friend the Polish Girl (2019)

By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 29 Nov 2019

The film grabs at so many thematic strands — further including toxic female friendship, urban alienation and abusive sexual manipulation…

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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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