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Review of Superior (2022)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 14 Feb 2022

Superior feels like a John Dahl movie given a “Twin Peaks” vibe on a Hal Hartley budget, with just the odd dash of Old Hollywood thrown…

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Review of Resurrection (2022)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 28 Jan 2022

It winds up several stops north of bonkers, in a finale that shoots for transgressive, psycho-biological role-reversal, but plays like 1994’s…

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Review of Résurrection (2022)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 28 Jan 2022

It winds up several stops north of bonkers, in a finale that shoots for transgressive, psycho-biological role-reversal, but plays like 1994’s…

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Review of Resurrection (2022)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 28 Jan 2022

It winds up several stops north of bonkers, in a finale that shoots for transgressive, psycho-biological role-reversal, but plays like 1994’s…

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Review of Resurrection (2022)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 28 Jan 2022

It winds up several stops north of bonkers, in a finale that shoots for transgressive, psycho-biological role-reversal, but plays like 1994’s…

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Review of Resurrection (2022)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 28 Jan 2022

It winds up several stops north of bonkers, in a finale that shoots for transgressive, psycho-biological role-reversal, but plays like 1994’s…

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Review of Watcher (2022)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 26 Jan 2022

Watcher, if it has an agenda beyond being a fun, shivery, fish-out-of-water chiller, is not so much a manifesto to Believe All Women as it…

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Review of Margrete: Queen of the North (2021)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Dec 2021

The slower stretches — like the entire first hour — have a tendency to plod, which gives ample opportunity to feast your eyes on Søren…

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Review of Silent Night (2021)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 02 Dec 2021

The thin stereotypes in Silent Night are weirdly uninteresting to observe in this ultimate pressure situation…

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Review of C'mon C'mon (2021)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 19 Nov 2021

If its rueful, midlife nostalgia doesn’t carry quite the same current of vibrant, urgent empathy as “20th Century Women” or “Beginners,”…

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Review of Prayers for the Stolen (2021)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Nov 2021

The film may be called “Prayers for the Stolen,” but it is much more a heartbroken lament for the circuits that are broken when the stealing…

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Review of Children of the Enemy (2021)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 16 Nov 2021

An abundance of earnestness is hardly a fatal flaw in a story as innately complex and moving as this one, especially once it moves beyond its…

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Review of Playground (2022)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 04 Nov 2021

Wandel’s immersive, impressive debut is rigorous in its resolute focus on one little girl fighting a lonely, frightened battle for her future…

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Review of Playground (2022)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 04 Nov 2021

Wandel’s immersive, impressive debut is rigorous in its resolute focus on one little girl fighting a lonely, frightened battle for her future…

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Review of Speer Goes to Hollywood (2021)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 02 Nov 2021

A rather pedestrian presentation of a potentially fascinating story, Vanessa Lapa’s Speer Goes to Hollywood expands on a little-known footnote…

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Review of The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 21 Oct 2021

Tottering unsteadily between mining Wain’s vast repertoire of eccentricities for comedy and slathering them in pathos, the movie winds up…

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Review of The Rescue (2021)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The New York Times (9,847) on 07 Oct 2021

The mechanics of the operation boggle the mind, and in presenting them so elegantly, Vasarhelyi and Chin offer more edge-of-your-seat drama…

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Review of No Time to Die (2021)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 29 Sep 2021

Craig reveals himself as perhaps the most generous actor to have inhabited the role…

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Review of The Guilty (2021)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 23 Sep 2021

Perhaps the highest praise we can lavish on Fuqua’s solid, enjoyable, easily watchable remake, is that beyond the addition of Gyllenhaal,…

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Review of Costa Brava, Lebanon (2022)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 18 Sep 2021

The gentle wisdom it contains is less to do with activist and environmentalist issues and more attuned to country, family and lifestyle choices…

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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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