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Review of Venus in Fur (2013)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 24 May 2013

With the themes of this play not exactly subtle or delicate, particularly at the climax, it all becomes a bit grating -- inescapable in its…

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Review of The Immigrant (2013)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 23 May 2013

The Immigrant is contained, restrained, thoughtful filmmaking that satisfies on nearly every level, except for the desire for a little chaos…

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Review of Blue Is the Warmest Color (2013)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 22 May 2013

Blue is the Warmest Color is a masterpiece of human warmth, empathy and generosity, because in a mere three hours, it gives you a whole new…

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Review of Nebraska (2013)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 22 May 2013

Nebraska is a small-scale quixotic adventure about the importance of dreams, no matter how pie-eyed, in which the outlined flaws could all…

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Review of Only God Forgives (2013)

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

Refn has consistently delivered films that have subverted our expectations, and has proven himself a master at stylistic self-reinvention,…

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Review of Grand Central (2013)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 19 May 2013

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 Borgman (2013)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 19 May 2013

With pitch-perfect performances across the board, and boasting crisp photography and editing, the film never ceases to twist, turn and surprise,…

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Review of A Castle in Italy (2013)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 19 May 2013

Sometimes playing it safe is the more dangerous route, and we wish that Bruni-Tedeschi had challenged herself to step out of the uber-privileged…

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Review of Fruitvale Station (2013)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 16 May 2013

Fruitvale Station is impressive for a debut, and displays the unimpeachable intent to involve us all in the human story behind a headline…

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Review of Paradise: Love (2012)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 02 May 2013

Challenging, complex and frequently ugly, Paradise: Love is a ruthless exploration of how unlike our everyday selves we can behave when we’re…

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Review of Kon-Tiki (2012)

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

There is little more to Kon-Tiki than a fun, handsomely-mounted, old-style adventure story…

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Review of Rhino Season (2012)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for IndieWire (3,631) on 20 Apr 2013

We simply couldn’t get invested in this film, despite our very best efforts…

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Review of Mental (2012)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 28 Mar 2013

The more dramatic moments feel unanchored to the more farcical, and the humor ranges erratically from scatological to tender/heartwarming and…

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Review of The Croods (2013)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 15 Mar 2013

Though it's impressive in many technical and surface ways, The Croods lets us down on the essentials of character and story, and no amount…

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Review of Electrick Children (2012)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 08 Mar 2013

Good as it is, with a catchy high concept and hip indie sensibility, it could have been so much better…

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Review of A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2013)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 05 Feb 2013

A film of surface pleasures, even joys, but those joys seem to be longing for a central idea around which to coalesce…

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Review of Bullet to the Head (2012)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 31 Jan 2013

This film feels like one you discover late at night and watch for ten minutes before remembering you've already seen it, and yet we still kinda…

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Review of Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 14 Nov 2012

By turns moving, absorbing and downright rage-inducing…

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Review of Side by Side (2012)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 16 Aug 2012

It sounds pretty dull as a logline, but stacked with gossipy, informal anecdotes and opinions from many of the most respected directors, cinematographers,…

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Review of Farewell, My Queen (2012)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 24 Jul 2012

Manages to be both overwrought and strangely lacking in drama, staggering under the deadening weight of an uninvolving central character…

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Jessica Kiang has written reviews for:

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