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Review of The Lighthouse (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 20 May 2019

If the immediate, textural pleasures of the film are such that you can almost miss the deftness of its construction, the skill with which Eggers…

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Review of The Professor (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 May 2019

Despite a tone that oscillates between quirkish and mawkish, it’s yet another warmed-over male midlife crisis movie, given supposedly higher…

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Review of The Third Wife (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 13 May 2019

This is the rare debut that derives its freshness not from inexperience but from a balance between compassion and restraint that most filmmakers…

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Review of Meeting Gorbachev (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 28 Apr 2019

We might have hoped for a more sparky encounter, but Meeting Gorbachev, though consistently engaging, is less a fireworks display than a fireside…

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Review of Piranhas (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Feb 2019

To watch young people fall into old patterns is still to watch those old patterns, and the film cannot escape the familiarity of its archetypal,…

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Review of The Plagiarists (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 15 Feb 2019

Wilfully student-video amateurish in form, but impishly sophisticated in content, a gleeful cultural curiosity fairly crackles off The Plagiarists,…

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Review of Light of My Life (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Feb 2019

Light of my Life is not a bad film, instead it’s a heartfelt, intelligent and earnest one (if a little tidy)…

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Review of Light of My Life (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Feb 2019

Light of my Life is not a bad film, instead it’s a heartfelt, intelligent and earnest one (if a little tidy)…

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Review of styx (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 25 Jan 2019

This is All Is Lost” with a spinning moral compass and a topical dimension that proves even more gripping than its brilliantly achieved visceral…

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Review of Dead Women Walking (2018)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 13 Dec 2018

Ben-Asher, in her fourth feature, strips down the story with serious-minded determination, rigorously defining the film's narrow scope and…

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Review of Museo (2018)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 14 Nov 2018

Ruizpalacios spins an irresistibly inventive and unusually intelligent tall tale from this kernel of truth…

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Review of Blue My Mind (2017)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Nov 2018

Having created a striking and potent allegory in “Blue My Mind,” and explored it with grace, seriousness, and exceptional craft, Brühlmann…

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Review of Life and Nothing More (2018)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 23 Oct 2018

If part of the great power of cinema is in being a visual medium that can somehow give form to the intangible, Esparza’s sophomore film is…

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Review of Generation Wealth (2018)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 22 Oct 2018

What we get is a film that is most fun when observing the cautionary lifestyles of the once-rich and adjacent-to-famous, but most insightful…

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Review of Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 28 Sep 2018

With Bad Times at the El Royale Goddard’s comparatively leisurely pace may disappoint the more impatient, splatter-hungry genre-hounds in…

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Review of Black '47 (2018)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 25 Sep 2018

Daly’s characterful, slow-burn tale is a well-crafted experiment in grafting genre onto disregarded history…

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Review of Hidden Man (2018)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 23 Sep 2018

Long before a rushed finale concludes its unnecessary 134 minutes, you may find yourself engaged by its jokiness, admiring of its action and…

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Review of High Life (2018)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 21 Sep 2018

This kinky, often grotesque melding of genre science-fiction with all-out body horror is an audacious project, but the scope of its ambition…

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Review of J.T. LeRoy (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Sep 2018

A capable film featuring superbly spiky performances…

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Review of High Life (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 10 Sep 2018

This kinky, often grotesque melding of genre science-fiction with all-out body horror is an audacious project, but the scope of its ambition…

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Jessica Kiang has written reviews for:

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The New York Times (9,847)
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BBC.com (1,500)
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