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Review of The Humans (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 24 Nov 2021

Is The Humans a haunted-house movie? Maybe; Karam is not above unleashing a good jump scare or two…

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Review of House of Gucci (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 22 Nov 2021

There’s something fitting, even respectful, about the sheer number of movie stars that have been pressed into service here…

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Review of King Richard (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 19 Nov 2021

What we see on-screen is both rewardingly jagged and uncommonly thoughtful, an engrossing family drama that doubles as a sharp rethink of how…

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Review of The Power of the Dog (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 17 Nov 2021

Campion handles the story with puzzle-box precision, but the power of this movie goes beyond its clockwork plotting and startling, deeply satisfying…

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Review of Licorice Pizza (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 15 Nov 2021

With Licorice Pizza [Anderson] has sifted through a haze of wildly embellished tales and half-forgotten memories — and pieced together something…

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Review of tick, tick... BOOM! (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 13 Nov 2021

Miranda and screenwriter Steven Levenson (“Dear Evan Hansen”) have made an inspired jumble, a surprisingly graceful Franken-Steinway of a movie…

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Review of Belfast (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 11 Nov 2021

There is a little whimsy, or perhaps a touch of blarney, in “Belfast,” though you can sense Branagh hard at work, straining to keep every…

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Review of Red Notice (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 04 Nov 2021

A depressing reminder of what Hollywood considers “original” material these days, “Red Notice” plays one of those self-consciously…

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Review of Spencer (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 04 Nov 2021

The royal family’s travails have long been likened to that of a soap opera, but Spencer, even as it conjures the emotional extravagance of…

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Review of Passing (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 27 Oct 2021

[Hall] picks up on their contrasting energies, the way Negga eagerly draws the camera’s gaze while Thompson quietly deflects it…

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Review of Passing (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 27 Oct 2021

[Hall] picks up on their contrasting energies, the way Negga eagerly draws the camera’s gaze while Thompson quietly deflects it…

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Review of Eternals (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 24 Oct 2021

You walk out in the depressing realization that you’ve just seen one of the more interesting movies Marvel will ever make, and hopefully…

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Review of The Harder They Fall (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 21 Oct 2021

Surely the truth (or something close to it) of who these men and women were must have been more fascinating, and more worth mythologizing,…

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Review of The Last Duel (2021)

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

A willingness to subvert expectations is one reason this ungainly, ingenious and altogether fascinating collaboration works as well as it does…

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Review of Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (2021)

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

A poignant, sometimes piercing triptych of tales, each one predicated on chance encounters and romantic possibilities (the original Japanese…

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Review of The Rescue (2021)

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

The Rescue is a gripping, unsurprisingly moving early account, one that emphasizes the pluck and ingenuity of its heroes and the resilience…

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Review of Titane (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 30 Sep 2021

Titane is nothing if not a triumph of engineering, to the point where the slickness and sophistication of its technique sometimes threaten…

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Review of The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 17 Sep 2021

Unfortunately, [Showalter] is often stymied by a pedestrian script by Abe Sylvia ( TV series “Dead to Me” and “Nurse Jackie”) that…

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Review of Cry Macho (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 15 Sep 2021

The simplicity of the story Eastwood is telling would seem to suit his unvarnished, unfussy style, though frankly, a bit more fuss — a few…

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Review of The Card Counter (2021)

By Justin Chang (1,535) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 09 Sep 2021

Scene by scene, it pulls us into a world that coheres not just through plotting and dialogue, but through the sharp rhythms of Benjamin Rodriguez…

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