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Review of Deep Water (2022)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 17 Mar 2022

Slithering along as deliberately as one of Vic’s snails, Deep Water runs hot and cold; it’s sometimes a self-aware hoot and sometimes a…

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Review of Turning Red (2022)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 07 Mar 2022

There’s something particularly pleasing about the harmony that Turning Red achieves between the lyricism of ancient Chinese legend and the…

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Review of Huda's Salon (2022)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 04 Mar 2022

Working with cinematographers Ehab Assal and Peter Flinckenberg, Abu-Assad continually boxes his female leads into tight corners, visually…

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Review of The Batman (2022)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 28 Feb 2022

It’s a movie of alternately promising and frustrating half-measures, in which Reeves’ shrewd storytelling instincts and the usual franchise-filmmaking…

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Review of Cyrano (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 24 Feb 2022

Cyrano slips in and out of that realm fitfully; it’s not always the most graceful retelling of this oft-told tale, and its ardent defense…

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Review of Playground (2022)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 17 Feb 2022

No one in this movie has a complete understanding of what’s going on, but Wandel proves that a sensitive enough camera can provide a fuller…

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Review of Playground (2022)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 17 Feb 2022

No one in this movie has a complete understanding of what’s going on, but Wandel proves that a sensitive enough camera can provide a fuller…

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Review of Kimi (2022)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 10 Feb 2022

Soderbergh, shooting and editing under his usual pseudonyms (Peter Andrews and Mary Ann Bernard, respectively), has a gift for satirizing corporate…

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Review of Death on the Nile (2022)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 07 Feb 2022

Christie’s story, one of her finest, is hard to screw up, even when Branagh and his returning screenwriter, Michael Green, seem bent on proving…

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Review of Moonfall (2022)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Slashfilm (971) on 03 Feb 2022

Moonfall is stupid, in other words, but I don’t mind admitting that it feels, at this point in time, like my kind of stupidity…

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Review of The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 23 Dec 2021

The Tragedy of Macbeth is an immaculate vision: coldly efficient, aesthetically faultless, splendidly acted. I do wish it had a bit more blood in it…

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Review of Parallel Mothers (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 23 Dec 2021

The genius of Parallel Mothers lies in the way it gathers up so many of its maker’s preoccupations — the heroic fortitude of women, the…

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Review of The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 23 Dec 2021

The Tragedy of Macbeth is an immaculate vision: coldly efficient, aesthetically faultless, splendidly acted. I do wish it had a bit more blood in it…

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Review of Nightmare Alley (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 16 Dec 2021

It’s a film noir in much the same way that “Crimson Peak” was a horror movie: Feverishly and often magnificently overwrought, it treats…

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Review of Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 14 Dec 2021

For all “No Way Home’s” vertiginous heights and precipitous drops, few things here shake you more fully than the anguished closeups of…

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Review of Red Rocket (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 10 Dec 2021

Red Rocket is both a laser-focused character study and a scrappy, scrupulously observed portrait of a tight-knit community…

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Review of Being the Ricardos (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 07 Dec 2021

It’s an effective if reductive conceit, which more or less describes Being the Ricardos, one of those pleasantly tidy biographical fantasias…

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Review of Don't Look Up (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 07 Dec 2021

Nothing about the foolishness and outrageousness of what the movie shows us — no matter how virtuosically sliced and diced by McKay’s characteristically…

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Review of Benedetta (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 03 Dec 2021

Verhoeven clearly wants us to laugh; the movie’s a gas…

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Review of West Side Story (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 02 Dec 2021

Spielberg’s movie may be rougher, grittier, more lived-in and, in terms of cultural representation, more truthful than its 1961 cinematic…

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