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Review of Coming Home (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 23 May 2014

While tears will be jerked, heartstrings plucked and throats enlumpened, it has to go down as a disappointment in the director’s catalogue…

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Review of The Rover (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 22 May 2014

Bleak, brutal and unrelentingly nihilist, and with only sporadic flashes of the blackest, most mordant humor to lighten the load, it feels…

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Review of It Follows (2015)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 22 May 2014

It Follows worked like gangbusters as an exercise in atmosphere and allusion, but a little less so as an out-and-out supernatural horror, and…

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Review of Coming Home (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 May 2014

While tears will be jerked, heartstrings plucked and throats enlumpened, it has to go down as a disappointment in the director’s catalogue…

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Review of Jimmy's Hall (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 May 2014

It’s a twee and tweedy period “Footloose,” into which Loach’s trademark left wing sympathies are not so much woven as photocopied and…

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Review of Snow in Paradise (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 May 2014

[it's] so obnoxiously convinced of both its edginess and depth while doing nothing but trotting out the same Cockney gangster cliches we've…

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Review of Two Days, One Night (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 May 2014

Perhaps the greatest achievement is in how brilliantly the film balances the trademark Dardennes social conscience with a conceit that plays…

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Review of A Hard Day (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 May 2014

A Hard Day is a film that sets itself fairly narrow ambitions, achieves all of them and then some and yet has no pretensions to importance,…

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Review of Jauja (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 May 2014

Perversely episodic, strangely empty, and unfolding in a series of beautifully composed but static wide shots (giving us the unusual experience…

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Review of The Salvation (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 May 2014

A loving and in fact overly adulatory genre film which is not so much a take on the revenge Western as a deeply faithful recreation of it,…

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Review of Foxcatcher (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 20 May 2014

With Foxcatcher, [Miller] has outdone himself, turning his uniquely meticulous eye to a tiny story in a totally rarefied, specific environment…

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Review of Girlhood (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 May 2014

Girlhood is a fascinatingly layered, textured film that manages to be both a lament for sweetness lost and a celebration of wisdom and identity…

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Review of Party Girl (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 May 2014

Taking place under a leaden cloud of inevitability and charting the depressingly inexorable botching of a second chance, what does Party Girl…

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Review of Timbuktu (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 May 2014

For all its value in bearing witness to the kind of atrocious acts that get but little attention on the world stage, this is not mere testimony,…

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Review of Maladies (2012)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 Mar 2014

It only ever connects in the small moments that fall through the cracks of the supposed formal and thematic experimentation—when the fine…

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Review of The Third Side of the River (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 Feb 2014

we found it strangely riveting, even if trying to parse it later felt like an exercise in futility-rooting through a massive box of polystyrene…

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Review of Beauty and the Beast (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 Feb 2014

The choking pictorialism of the sets and CG backgrounds, coupled with the barely-there performances, contribute to an inescapable sense of…

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Review of If You Don't, I Will (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 Feb 2014

Shot in pedestrian fashion, it is set in an intriguing and entirely foreign milieu, but the film ends up just too inscrutable and oblique for…

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Review of Blind (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 Feb 2014

This is a peculiarly beautiful film, with lingering sustain and the kind of hard-won optimism that feels truthful as well as hopeful…

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Review of The Midnight After (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 Feb 2014

if you go in prepared for its exploitative excesses and can check your expectations of such conceits as logic, character consistency 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)
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Indiewire (3,631)
BBC.com (1,500)
Sight and Sound (827)

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