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Review of Children of Heaven (1997)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 08 Jul 2021

Children of Heaven is a simple film – it has bold, childlike colors and a narrative that turns on unremarkable, everyday events – yet Majidi…

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Review of No Sudden Move (2021)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 08 Jul 2021

Cheadle is wonderful—weary and gravelly as an underestimated ex-con playing everyone’s assumptions about him to his advantage…

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Review of Zola (2021)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 07 Jul 2021

A dizzying story told at a dizzying pace, Zola might register for some as a transgressive lark (it certainly has comic touches, including a…

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Review of Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 06 Jul 2021

It’s not just the historical footage that makes the documentary special, however; it’s also what Questlove and his filmmaking team do with it…

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Review of Black Widow (2021)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 01 Jul 2021

Black Widow certainly suffers from MCU bloat—dutiful references to other installments in the franchise, an overly convoluted plot leading…

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Review of F9 (2021)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 27 Jun 2021

Director Justin Lin (making his fifth Fast film) nicely balances chaos and clarity in one early chase scene through the jungle, but later lets…

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Review of In the Heights (2021)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 10 Jun 2021

If In the Heights is packed with enough bold choices to invite both effusive praise and endless nitpicking, that comes with the genre…

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Review of Undine (2021)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 09 Jun 2021

The movie considers what it means to move on, to reconcile with the past while creating a new future. For both a city and a person…

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Review of All Light, Everywhere (2021)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 09 Jun 2021

All Light, Everywhere is very smart and extremely meta (Anthony often films himself and his crew setting up a shot, to emphasize the observational…

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Review of Holler (2021)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 09 Jun 2021

Much of Holler’s plotting feels driven by issues (factory layoffs, opioids) rather than allowing those issues to naturally exist within the…

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Review of Cruella (2021)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 27 May 2021

Exhaustingly over-directed (Craig Gillespie zooms in from an establishing shot to a close-up in nearly every other scene), the movie is also…

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Review of A Quiet Place Part II (2021)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 20 May 2021

On the surface, A Quiet Place Part II is another expertly crafted and well-acted monster movie, much like its predecessor…

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Review of Shiva Baby (2021)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 17 May 2021

Shiva Baby has a comic claustrophobia that almost makes you choke, so intense is its depiction of familial/traditional walls closing in on…

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Review of Wrath of Man (2021)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 10 May 2021

Wow, when this thing eventually curdles, it really curdles into something rank…

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Review of Together Together (2021)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 22 Apr 2021

Hang in there with Together Together…

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Review of Godzilla vs. Kong (2021)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 05 Apr 2021

Thanks to little filmmaking touches, Kong has real personality, which helps us come to care for his plight…

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Review of Raya and the Last Dragon (2021)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 01 Apr 2021

A triumph of design, Raya and the Last Dragon is held back by a lackluster story, one cobbled together from various influences (Indiana Jones,…

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Review of The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 01 Apr 2021

This is too neat, tidy, and digestible of a take on such a wrenching topic—especially when we know the forces of injustice at work here were…

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Review of My Octopus Teacher (2020)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 25 Mar 2021

You’re guaranteed to come away with new respect for the octopus as a species and astonishment at the intimate connection Foster experiences…

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Review of Pieces of a Woman (2020)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 25 Mar 2021

When Pieces of a Woman is at its best, it’s focusing on this traumatized couple and how neither knows how to make room for the other’s…

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