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Review of Mediterranea (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 Nov 2015

For the most part an assured film, confident in both the drama and the truth of the scenario it observes, this ground-level view of the immigrant…

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Review of In the Basement (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 05 Nov 2015

Seidl uses the peculiar relationship of Austrians to their basements as a way to pick away at the cracks between our public and our most private…

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Review of Love (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 30 Oct 2015

While the sexuality is pushed far too far for mainstream audiences, it's also true that Noe's conception of sentiment and romance pulls the…

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Review of Asthma (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 Oct 2015

The problems run far deeper than craft — it is simply a film that has no reason to be made, a story without point or insight or drive…

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Review of The Pearl Button (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 29 Sep 2015

Guzmán's essential thesis seems to be that, in turning its back on the ocean, modern Chile lost a crucial part of its identity…

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Review of Mustang (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 24 Sep 2015

The exuberant life and liveliness that spills off the screen and the effortless sororal chemistry between these young actresses are compelling…

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Review of Remember (2016)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 19 Sep 2015

The pathos of this situation is clear, the stakes, which obviously involve genocide, justice and actual Nazis, are sky high and Plummer is…

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Review of In Jackson Heights (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 18 Sep 2015

In Jackson Heights serves to remind us that our worlds are full of living things, and that, being the social creatures we are, we need each other…

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Review of From Afar (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 18 Sep 2015

Vigas' grip is so tight that even if you do get to the heart of his meaning, there's a chance it will have had the life squeezed out of it…

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Review of The Childhood of a Leader (2016)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 17 Sep 2015

Alternating immense bombast with long stretches of longueur in its psychologically questionable evocation of the formative years of a future…

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Review of The Daughter (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 17 Sep 2015

A highly polished film that belies the soap opera melodrama of its plotline by having the twists and turns spring directly from well-observed…

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Review of Victoria (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Sep 2015

This first section is so charming and well-observed, and creates such real chemistry between the two terrific leads, that it's almost a shame…

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Review of Youth (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Sep 2015

There is no shading, there is no ambiguity, and while there are observations and stilted epithets aplenty, there is precious little wisdom…

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Review of De Palma (2016)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 11 Sep 2015

De Palma is a joy: a hit of garrulous cinephile cocaine so pure you want to do a Tony Montana, fall face-first into it and inhale it all in one go…

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Review of Equals (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 11 Sep 2015

Its few saving graces are some decent shot-making, a rather great score and the loveliness of its lead actors' faces…

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Review of Breathe (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 08 Sep 2015

Right up until the film’s very closing moments, in which the carefully maintained tension and tone snaps under the ratchet of one melodramatic…

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Review of Breathe (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 08 Sep 2015

Right up until the film’s very closing moments, in which the carefully maintained tension and tone snaps under the ratchet of one melodramatic…

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Review of A Bigger Splash (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 05 Sep 2015

Its very wonkiness is one of the things that makes A Bigger Splash a good time — the sense of a filmmaker, perhaps aware that the story he's…

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Review of Everest (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 04 Sep 2015

Salvatore Totino's crisp 3D photography and Kormakur's way with a clear, fluid, thrilling action sequence show off the mountain in immensely…

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Review of Beasts of No Nation (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 04 Sep 2015

Matching Fukunaga's proven storytelling grace with a story truly worth the telling, the result is explosively authentic and yet lyrical, making…

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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)
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Indiewire (3,631)
BBC.com (1,500)
Sight and Sound (827)

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