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Review of France (2021)

By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 26 Jan 2022

Dumont is clearly critiquing the way we mediate life via screens, large and small…

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Review of Redeeming Love (2022)

By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 20 Jan 2022

Redeeming Love is an incident-rich saga populated by cardboard heroes and villains and outfitted with greeting-card sentiments and cartoon villainy…

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Review of Munich - The Edge of War (2021)

By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 12 Jan 2022

A mixture of well-researched historical fact and pure fiction, “Munich: The Edge of War” is a smart and entertaining thriller that suffers…

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Review of The Velvet Queen (2021)

By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 11 Jan 2022

There’s plenty to look at while we’re waiting for the titular Queen, and it’s often quite pretty: Shots of rabbits, sheep, deer, yaks,…

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Review of Parallel Mothers (2021)

By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 04 Jan 2022

The geometry of filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar’s masterful, moving Parallel Mothers, which follows the stories of two women who give birth almost…

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Review of Red Rocket (2021)

By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 21 Dec 2021

The film, whose title may or may not refer to a slang term for a dog’s erection, often teeters between compassion and something that feels…

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Review of The Tender Bar (2021)

By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 21 Dec 2021

Tender also is an apt description for the gently heartwarming tone of this appealingly low-key, faded Kodachrome coming-of-age story, capably…

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Review of The King's Man (2021)

By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 20 Dec 2021

If the story is fun — and it is fitfully, only after a protracted, sloggy set up — it’s a lot less so than either of the first two films…

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

By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 14 Dec 2021

For more casual consumers of the costumed comic-book superhero’s exploits, mileage may vary. But there’s a whole lot to like here…

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Review of Swan Song (2021)

By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 14 Dec 2021

As a fairly soggy, two-hankie melodrama, “Swan Song” is effective. But I wouldn’t recommend thinking about it for too long…

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Review of Nightmare Alley (2021)

By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 14 Dec 2021

It’s a noir tale for contemporary audiences who have developed an appetite for sensation from comic book movies, not literature…

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Review of Drive My Car (2021)

By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 09 Dec 2021

There is so much going on here, yet the director handles the film’s constellation of themes and sweeping emotion with impeccable assurance…

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Review of Being the Ricardos (2021)

By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 07 Dec 2021

Imagine a 10-episode podcast about the making of a single episode of the 1950s marital sitcom “I Love Lucy” — a podcast dense with behind-the-scenes…

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Review of Encounter (2021)

By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 30 Nov 2021

Fortunately, Ahmed (an Oscar nominee for last year’s Sound of Metal and more recently seen in the niche Mogul Mowgli) delivers another one…

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Review of Encounter (2021)

By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 30 Nov 2021

Fortunately, Ahmed (an Oscar nominee for last year’s Sound of Metal and more recently seen in the niche Mogul Mowgli) delivers another one…

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Review of Encounter (2021)

By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 30 Nov 2021

Fortunately, Ahmed (an Oscar nominee for last year’s Sound of Metal and more recently seen in the niche Mogul Mowgli) delivers another one…

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Review of House of Gucci (2021)

By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 22 Nov 2021

None of which would be a problem, if “Gucci” were half as much fun as I’m afraid about to make it sound…

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Review of Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)

By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 16 Nov 2021

Shamelessly catering to fans of the original film, while giving them nothing new, its story and humor are also inexplicably calibrated for…

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Review of The First Wave (2021)

By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 16 Nov 2021

The First Wave feels simultaneously hard to watch and vital, tragic and uplifting, like a backward glimpse over our shoulder at a period of…

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Review of Passing (2021)

By Michael O'sullivan (1,712) for Washington Post (9,851) on 27 Oct 2021

The narrative moves toward its foregone conclusion with the low energy of a slow-moving locomotive on train tracks leading to a broken bridge…

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