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Review of Downsizing (2017)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 29 Aug 2017

Heady, bold statements about humankind are both the film’s best aspect and its chief flaw: There are just so many of them…

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Review of What Happened to Monday (2017)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 06 Aug 2017

Wirkola’s film is set apart by its almost heroic lack of self-awareness: Not only does it not realize how dumb it is, there’s a real sense…

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Review of Lemon (2017)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Jul 2017

Lemon is too in love with being oddball to really have any connection to the real, non-quirky world…

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Review of Columbus (2017)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 22 Jun 2017

A gentle but sharply defined story, brimming with grace, compassion and performances of perfect naturalism, it is unashamedly intellectual…

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Review of Who's Gonna Love Me Now? (2016)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 12 Jun 2017

Although the issues it tackles are troublesome and heartsore, the film is anything but morose, as though it emanates from the engaging Saar…

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Review of Moscow Never Sleeps (2017)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 08 Jun 2017

The various story currents move swiftly but don’t run particularly deep, so the film works better as a kind of best-foot-forward overview…

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Review of Happy End (2017)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Sight and Sound (827) on 07 Jun 2017

It's a film whose themes put it squarely within the continuum of Haneke's filmography, yet it also distinguishes itself from much of it in…

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Review of You Were Never Really Here (2017)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 27 May 2017

The entire, whippet-lean film feels like an experiment in impressionist condensation, as though Ramsay is testing the limits of how little…

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Review of Loveless (2011)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 26 May 2017

This is the downer as an art form, a feelbad film of gargantuan reach and effect, and a brave, horrified commentary on a whole nation…

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Review of Loveless (2017)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 26 May 2017

This is the downer as an art form, a feelbad film of gargantuan reach and effect, and a brave, horrified commentary on a whole nation…

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Review of I Am Not a Witch (2017)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 26 May 2017

It's rare and exhilarating that a new filmmaker arrives on the scene so sure of herself and so willing to take bold, counter-intuitive chances…

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Review of The Square (2017)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 24 May 2017

An excoriating razor-burn of a movie that deploys drollery like an instrument of torture…

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Review of Good Time (2017)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 24 May 2017

A high watermark in the fusion of genre and arthouse, and an anthemic, youthful blast of generational pop art, “Good Time” is a 100 minute-long…

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Review of The Beguiled (2017)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 23 May 2017

The Beguiled only ever lets its freak flag fly at half mast, and until the end where some very enjoyable archness is allowed to creep in, this…

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Review of The Florida Project (2017)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 22 May 2017

The infectious joy of a long childhood summer is brilliantly and boldly brought to life, unfolding, like Baker’s vital last film “Tangerine,”…

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Review of The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) (2017)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 22 May 2017

The amiable and undemanding Meyerowitz evokes so many other media — television, short story, theater — that it’s a little unclear as…

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Review of Ava (2017)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 22 May 2017

Mysius’ startlingly assured, exquisitely shot “Ava” is a film that doesn’t simply explore the textural possibilities of 35mm film for…

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Review of The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 May 2017

The Killing of a Sacred Deer is Lanthimos with the gloves off, and it makes the absurd, amazing “The Lobster” seem like a warm and cuddly…

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Review of Okja (2017)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 18 May 2017

This is a gorgeously realized popcorn movie of the most satisfying, comforting, restorative kind: full as its heart is, it has a lot on its…

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Review of Wonderstruck (2017)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 17 May 2017

Wonderstruck lives in the glory of its filmmaking — its photography, its costuming, its set design, its brilliantly variegated Carter Burwell score…

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Jessica Kiang has written reviews for:

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BBC.com (1,500)
Sight and Sound (827)

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