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Review of Better Days (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 02 Dec 2019

In Derek Kwok Cheung Tsang’s gripping, superbly performed melodrama — a deeply moving if occasionally overwrought exposé of bullying in…

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Review of Jallikattu (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 05 Oct 2019

A fever-pitch, adrenaline-soaked vortex of social issues drama, deconstruction of the male id, and hokey, hubristic descent into hell, this…

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Review of Monos (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 29 Sep 2019

A sublimely crafted saga about child soldiers discovering their own hearts of darkness in an unnamed, untamed Latin American wilderness, Monos…

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Review of The Laundromat (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 01 Sep 2019

Comparisons to Adam McKay‘s “The Big Short” and “Vice” are unavoidable…

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Review of Joker (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 31 Aug 2019

In amongst Joker’s fire and blood and chaos and its blackest of blackhearted laughter, there is the sense of a grotesque, green-haired genie…

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Review of A Rainy Day in New York (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 30 Aug 2019

It is a retread of territory Allen has extensively covered before, but while the same can be said about almost all of his late-career work,…

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Review of Marriage Story (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 29 Aug 2019

Baumbach pulls no punches, and exhumes a personal calamity, most people wouldn’t have the stomach to sift through again…

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Review of The Load (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 28 Aug 2019

It requires a degree of commitment on the part of the viewer to join the sparsely placed dots of Glavonić’s harshly intelligent and uncompromisingly…

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Review of The Truth (2020)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 28 Aug 2019

There’s the potential for melodrama, but despite the misleadingly grandiose title, The Truth is not in the business of the grand, tormented…

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Review of The Load (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 28 Aug 2019

It requires a degree of commitment on the part of the viewer to join the sparsely placed dots of Glavonić’s harshly intelligent and uncompromisingly…

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Review of Vita & Virginia (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 22 Aug 2019

As Vita & Virginia loses its girlishness, drawn like the tides to the solemn maturity of Debicki’s performance…

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Review of Rojo (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 09 Jul 2019

Rojo is a witheringly provocative examination of temporary moral eclipse becoming permanent moral apocalypse…

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Review of Red (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 09 Jul 2019

Rojo is a witheringly provocative examination of temporary moral eclipse becoming permanent moral apocalypse…

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Review of The Ground Beneath My Feet (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 28 Jun 2019

Without proselytizing, and without distracting from the main thrust of her gripping, intelligent psychodrama, Kreutzer and her predominately…

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Review of The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 03 Jun 2019

As much fun as it is to watch Lee beat people up and strut around in shiny pinstripe suits, it’s just as much of a pleasure to watch him…

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Review of First Love (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 31 May 2019

First Love may be a fluffier, more eager-to-please bauble than Miike’s more challengingly outré titles, but like the cutesy mechanical toy…

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Review of First Love (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 31 May 2019

First Love may be a fluffier, more eager-to-please bauble than Miike’s more challengingly outré titles, but like the cutesy mechanical toy…

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Review of First Love (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 31 May 2019

First Love may be a fluffier, more eager-to-please bauble than Miike’s more challengingly outré titles, but like the cutesy mechanical toy…

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Review of Parasite (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for Variety (12,700) on 22 May 2019

Bong is back and on brilliant form, but he is unmistakably, roaringly furious, and it registers because the target is so deserving, so enormous,…

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Review of The Lighthouse (2019)

By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 20 May 2019

If the immediate, textural pleasures of the film are such that you can almost miss the deftness of its construction, the skill with which Eggers…

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Jessica Kiang has written reviews for:

Los Angeles Times (12,977)
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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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