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Review of Thin Ice (2012)

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

The odd rhythm of very fast and slick followed by very slow and arty is difficult to settle into, and the film ultimately frustrates, willfully…

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Review of Aloft (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Feb 2014

Aloft and its icy landscapes and feel of gently dropping barometric pressure can only distract so far from what is essentially an overwrought…

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Review of A Long Way Down (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Feb 2014

The film is awful, but it is not unwatchable…

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Review of Yves Saint Laurent (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Feb 2014

Over the twenty-odd years the film covers, Saint Laurent is scene-by-scene depicted as a genius, a manic-depressive, a polyamorist, a drug…

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Review of The Two Faces of January (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Feb 2014

It's a sterile affair, no ambiguity, no ambivalence, just people doing one thing and then another…

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Review of In Order of Disappearance (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Feb 2014

A true blue dark comedy that isn’t so concerned with its darkness that it forgets to be laugh-out-loud silly at times too, “In Order of…

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Review of Cesar Chavez (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Feb 2014

It’s a competent, unobjectionable history lesson but Cesar Chavez’ legacy needs a more inspired and inspiring telling if it's to get the…

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Review of The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 07 Feb 2014

As off-kilter affecting as we found its nostalgia for a world of charm and dash that really only ever existed in the movies, and as terrific…

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Review of Jodorowsky's Dune (2013)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 01 Feb 2014

Director Pavich, his first time at bat, has crafted an unalloyed pleasure of a documentary, especially for those of us who care about Dune,…

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Review of Of Horses and Men (2013)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 01 Feb 2014

Erlingsson has delivered an attractive slice of Icelandic oddness that confirms many of the cliches about that country’s offbeat outlook,…

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Review of Starred Up (2014)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 01 Feb 2014

The supporting cast all do excellent work too, but this is Eric’s story, and so it’s O’Connell’s film. His performance is a revelation…

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Review of The Missing Picture (2013)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 01 Feb 2014

If some elements are more successful than others in achieving a balance between the public and the private, between the story of a nation’s…

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Review of Interior. Leather Bar. (2013)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 03 Jan 2014

Franco has finally delivered a side project that does at least some justice to his eclectic artistic ambitions…

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Review of The Best Offer (2013)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 03 Jan 2014

Strangely old-fashioned in its construction and requiring a Golden Gate-level feat of engineering to achieve the suspension of disbelief necessary…

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Review of Night Train to Lisbon (2013)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 09 Dec 2013

Bloodless, far too genteel, and perfectly content to continually tell where a little showing would be nice; Night Train to Lisbon ends up a…

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Review of A Thousand Times Good Night (2013)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 07 Dec 2013

Ultimately it feels like Poppe wanted to say something about a great many topics...But what he concludes on any one of these points is never…

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Review of Paradise: Hope (2013)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 04 Dec 2013

We can't help but feel that by comparison with the meaty and compelling issues he takes on so fearlessly, so scabrously in the other entries,…

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Review of The Motel Life (2013)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 07 Nov 2013

While it doesn't reinvent the wheel, or revolutionize the genre, it achieves its modest ambitions affectingly well, in no small part due to…

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Review of Filth (2013)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 Oct 2013

When it comes to capturing some of the gonzo, amoral, substance-fueled verve that Welsh’s novels can display, Filth can take the silver medal…

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Review of Gloria (1980)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 21 Oct 2013

Gloria is an endlessly watchable creation—a wonderful example of an actress melting into a role, and a co-writer/director with almost superhuman…

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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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