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Review of The Danish Girl (2015)

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

The fact is that both actors are very good, even if trapped in the amber of Hooper's overweeningly tasteful direction…

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Review of Black Mass (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 03 Sep 2015

There is nothing underneath the glossy surface and no real insight into what made this man tick — and despite how creepy he looks here, Bulger…

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Review of Spotlight (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 02 Sep 2015

It's the best film McCarthy has ever made: restrained, intelligent and grown-up, but unfolding with the pacing and rhythm of a thriller…

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Review of Counting (2015)

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

There's a kind of helpless humility to the presentation of these urban impressions, almost a kind of democracy, that allows you to engage as…

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Review of A Blast (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 16 Jul 2015

A Blast is complicated and demanding and messy, like the world right now, like life…

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Review of The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 16 Jul 2015

It's a film that constantly brings us to the brink of revelation but pulls up some way short, be it through the rather indifferent shooting…

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Review of Goodnight Mommy (2015)

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

It's a resonant, atmospheric horror film that treats its genre and its audience with unusual respect, before escalating in its last moments…

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Review of Heil (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 10 Jul 2015

Heil is undone by its writer/director's utter disdain for all of his characters and has to resort to simpleminded farce to claw its way out…

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Review of Partisan (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 10 Jul 2015

It is slow and it is ambiguous but it is supremely sure of itself, as it moves, with singleminded grace from chilly to all-out chilling…

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Review of The Benefactor (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 10 Jul 2015

It promises a minute character study, but Franny, though embodied by a game Gere who in all fairness does visit places in his performance we…

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Review of Stations of the Cross (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 10 Jul 2015

Devolving into clodhopping heavyhandedness...Stations of the Cross tackles a weighty, complex subject in simple-minded fashion…

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Review of Dark Places (2015)

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

Without the spiky irony of Flynn's first-person writing (the enjoyable Jim Thompson-esque noirisms that pepper the novel, like I have a meanness…

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Review of Yakuza Apocalypse (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 23 May 2015

It may be a hugely tacky, cartoony balloon pit of a film, but when every single element is dialled up to eleven and you can't go thirty seconds…

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Review of The Assassin (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 23 May 2015

It isn't really about the people as much as about the pictures, and for once that does not seem to be a trade off that compromises the power…

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Review of Macbeth (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 22 May 2015

Aided by intensely committed performances from a uniformly brilliant cast, all fielding Scottish accents, Kurzel's genius is to be able to…

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Review of Macbeth (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 22 May 2015

In Kurzel's Macbeth, the beautiful ferocity and complexity of Shakespeare's Macbeth is reborn, forged in iron, blood, and fire…

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Review of Sicario (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 22 May 2015

Amazing to look at, amazing to listen to, yet just a bit underwhelming to really think about, Sicario Denis Villeneuve's Mexican drug cartel…

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Review of Inside Out (2015)

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

Inside Out is not just fun and breezy, it's also truly weird and wicked smart in its thoroughly heartfelt conclusions…

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Review of Carol (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 May 2015

Made of crystal and suppressed tears, shot eternally through windows and mirrors and half-closed doors, Todd Haynes' Carol is a love story…

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Review of The Last Reel (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 May 2015

More about story than style, The Last Reel relates a personal, cross-generational tale of love and hate to the loss of cultural heritage and…

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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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