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Review of The Hate U Give (2018)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 09 Sep 2018

Without compromising the complexity of the issues raised, or condescending to the youth of its protagonists, The Hate U Give strides with absorbing,…

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Review of Life Itself (2018)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 08 Sep 2018

It is sentimental and sprawling, which are not necessarily bad things, but also manipulative and contrived, which very much are…

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Review of Charlie Says (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 07 Sep 2018

The film Harron delivers is so ambivalent as to be frustratingly gun-shy about truly asserting a point of view, or adding anything meaningful…

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Review of The Sisters Brothers (2018)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Sight and Sound (827) on 07 Sep 2018

A loose-limbed, mournfully comic western that gets better the further off-trail it goes…

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Review of The Nightingale (2018)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 07 Sep 2018

With all this evocative material available it’s unfortunate that Kent lavishes so much of the overgenerous runtime on repetitive and redundant…

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Review of 22 July (2018)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 04 Sep 2018

Crudely put: it is distancing to hear people cry for help or speak anguished, halting truths from their hearts in a second language, and for…

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Review of Vox Lux (2018)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 03 Sep 2018

Wrapped up in Portman’s like-it-or-loathe-it-you-cannot-ignore-it performance (I love it, for the record) and Corbet’s astonishingly confident…

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Review of Suspiria (2018)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 31 Aug 2018

It’s a long, deliriously filmic, primal banshee-howl of macabre imagination that leaves us hormonal and drunk on delusion: the beautiful,…

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Review of The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 30 Aug 2018

Taken individually, there are cherishable moments and performances scattered throughout “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” like so many flecks…

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Review of A Star Is Born (2018)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 30 Aug 2018

The star that is truly born here is Cooper as a director…

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Review of The Favourite (2018)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 29 Aug 2018

This time the irony is of the tragic kind, and the stinging, wicked wit is tinctured with wholly new notes of tenderness…

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Review of Roma (2018)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 29 Aug 2018

This is personal filmmaking taken to such an extremely minute level that at times it can almost feel prurient, like we’re accidentally eavesdropping…

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Review of First Man (2018)

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

Steering an astonishingly accomplished path between the small steps and the giant leaps of the Apollo 11 mission, reigning Best Director Damien…

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Review of The Little Mermaid (2018)

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

Creaky visual effects, slapdash plotting and a script drunk on cliché: There’s pretty much nothing but cheap parlor trickery here…

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Review of Grass (2018)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 02 Aug 2018

The black-and-white Grass is a deceptively potent entry in the canon, a thimbleful of purest, concentrated Hong-brand soju…

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Review of Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms (2018)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 20 Jul 2018

It’s possible that the film’s passing pleasures are so rich that we don’t even notice how deep Okada has driven her storytelling dagger…

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Review of Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind (2018)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 18 Jul 2018

This affectionate portrait avoids the major pitfall of comparable docs like Asif Kapadia‘s “Amy” or Kevin Macdonald‘s recent “Whitney”…

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Review of 3 Faces (2018)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 01 Jul 2018

With 3 Faces, the caged Panahi is determined to sing someone else's song, and in times like these, such generosity of spirit is its own quietly…

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Review of The Man Who Killed Don Quixote (2018)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 17 May 2018

Neither as bad as you fear nor as good as it deserves to be given the sheer effort of will that went into getting it made, it is enough that…

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Review of Under the Silver Lake (2018)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 16 May 2018

With Under the Silver Lake Mitchell saw all the lights on the long highway to success turn green, and in the full flush of all that indulged…

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Jessica Kiang has written reviews for:

Los Angeles Times (12,977)
Variety (12,700)
The New York Times (9,847)
Rolling Stone (4,035)
The Playlist (3,871)
Indiewire (3,631)
BBC.com (1,500)
Sight and Sound (827)

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