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Review of The Last Vermeer (2019)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 19 Nov 2020

It’s a clever gesture, but also points out what’s ultimately wrong with director Dan Friedkin’s postwar thriller: It knows a lot about…

Review of Crazy, Not Insane (2020)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 19 Nov 2020

Dorothy Lewis, the subject of director Alex Gibney’s collagist masterpiece Crazy, Not Insane, is out to demolish “the myth of pure evil.”…

Review of Jiu Jitsu (2020)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 19 Nov 2020

Jiu Jitsu is an ambitious undertaking in its way, one that will probably tickle hardcore martial-arts and samurai movie fans, although the…

Review of The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 12 Oct 2020

Even when it falters The Forty-Year-Old Version exudes confidence—the director has confidence in her lead actress, and vice versa; both trust…

Review of The Glorias (2020)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 01 Oct 2020

An overlong, unfocused and distractingly stylized take on Ms. Steinem’s life…

Review of The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts The Tonight Show (2020)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 10 Sep 2020

Ms. Richen has a problematic subject for a documentary, and the problems extend beyond the limitations of footage…

Review of Class Action Park (2020)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 27 Aug 2020

Narrated quite drolly by comedian John Hodgman, Class Action Park is very funny in its dark way, the interviewees are all charmingly surprised…

Review of Yusuf Hawkins: Storm Over Brooklyn (2020)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 12 Aug 2020

A rehashing of decades-old race relations in New York, or anywhere in America, might seem superfluous given more recent events, but Mr…

Review of Spinster (2019)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 06 Aug 2020

What’s increasingly bewildering and perversely curious is how unpleasant Spinster is, in almost every regard: The lighting is atrocious,…

Review of An American Pickle (2020)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 05 Aug 2020

It has some savvy things to say about social media, assimilation and a specifically American condition: the peculiar mix of embarrassment and…

Review of The Go-Go's (2021)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 30 Jul 2020

As director Alison Ellwood shows in her briskly entertaining documentary—The Go-Go’s—the band’s members can explain away, with enormous…

Review of Hamilton (2025)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 01 Jul 2020

How does it play? With the same verbal and musical fireworks as the stage version, and with the same emotional kick, which is rooted in the casting…

Review of Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn (2019)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 17 Jun 2020

Anyone expecting some kind of righteously indignant, stentorian rant from Ms. Meeropol will be disappointed…

Review of We Are Freestyle Love Supreme (2020)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 05 Jun 2020

Mr…

Review of Spelling the Dream (2020)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 05 Jun 2020

There is often a pulsating musical score buoying the action, such as it is; family snapshots appear, the histories of the individual kids are…

Review of Bad Education (2019)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 24 Apr 2020

It’s a delicate and memorable performance by Mr. Jackman. Ms. Janney does the whole Long Island thing as well as anyone ever has…

Review of Cats (2019)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 19 Dec 2019

Mostly, Cats is a confusing litter box of intentions, from its crushed-velour aesthetic to its strip-bar sensuality to its musical cluelessness…

Review of Just Mercy (2019)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 19 Dec 2019

The pacing is good, the atmosphere authentic, and even the paperwork — which is where the real revolutions in law occur — has a certain…

Review of 1917 (2019)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 19 Dec 2019

Still, one needn’t be British to feel the epic loss and grief of 1917, thanks to some very committed performances, the intimacy achieved…

Review of A Hidden Life (2019)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 12 Dec 2019

With A Hidden Life and the story of Franz Jägerstätter, the director has found the ideal vehicle for his cosmic inquiries, and has created…

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John Anderson has written reviews for:

Los Angeles Times (12,977)
Variety (12,700)
Washington Post (9,851)
Chicago Tribune (6,211)
Christian Science Monitor (3,788)
Indiewire (3,631)
Wall Street Journal (3,071)
Newsday (2,345)
Baltimore Sun (1,823)
Time (1,811)

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