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Review of Sex Story: Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Monica Castillo (380) for International Business Times (181) on 02 Mar 2015

Actress Dakota Johnson brings humor, sensitivity and vulnerability to Anastasia, making her the clear breakout performance of Fifty Shades [of Grey]…

Review of Hot Tub Time Machine 2 (2015)

By Monica Castillo (380) for International Business Times (181) on 02 Mar 2015

When you drain out the filler of homophobic rape and masturbation jokes from Hot Tub Time Machine 2, you're not left with much else at the…

Review of Jupiter Ascending (2015)

By Monica Castillo (380) for International Business Times (181) on 02 Mar 2015

Directors Lana and Andy Wachowski excel at creating fantastic new worlds lurking under the surface of our own, but in Jupiter Ascending, they've…

Review of Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)

By Monica Castillo (380) for International Business Times (181) on 02 Mar 2015

Actress Dakota Johnson brings humor, sensitivity and vulnerability to Anastasia, making her the clear breakout performance of Fifty Shades [of Grey]…

Review of Maps to the Stars (2014)

By Monica Castillo (380) for International Business Times (181) on 27 Feb 2015

The movie becomes so over the top, that Maps [to the Stars] devolves from satire into farce…

Review of The Lazarus Effect (2015)

By Monica Castillo (380) for International Business Times (181) on 27 Feb 2015

Lazarus is mired in the predictability of its genre conventions, showing its cards on the table before actually playing them…

Review of Ana Maria in Novela Land (2015)

By Monica Castillo (380) for International Business Times (181) on 27 Feb 2015

[Edy Ganem] plays the parts so well, switching accents and physicality between a laidback young woman and the caricature of the high maintenance…

Review of The Hunting Ground (2015)

By Monica Castillo (380) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 30 Jan 2015

This film provides a platform for these survivors to put their name and face out there; to de-stigmatize what it is to live with sexual trauma,…

Review of Mistress America (2015)

By Monica Castillo (380) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 30 Jan 2015

If Frances Ha was Baumbach's Manhattan, then this is his Bringing Up Baby…

Review of The Hunting Ground (2015)

By Monica Castillo (380) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 30 Jan 2015

This film provides a platform for these survivors to put their name and face out there; to de-stigmatize what it is to live with sexual trauma,…

Review of It's All So Quiet (2013)

By Monica Castillo (380) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 15 Jan 2015

The picture feels bleak and dirty, like looking through a dirty window pane at an abandoned house…

Review of Dying of the Light (2014)

By Monica Castillo (380) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 29 Dec 2014

Something's amiss in the folds of punchy dialogue and a spy-filled plot…

Review of The Interview (2014)

By Monica Castillo (380) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 22 Dec 2014

This buddy comedy is no classic on the level of Pineapple Express…

Review of The Book of Life (2014)

By Monica Castillo (380) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 16 Oct 2014

The Book of Life navigates this cultural dichotomy beautifully with its narrative approach, reverent attention to detail, and colorful characters…

Review of Birdman (2015)

By Monica Castillo (380) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 11 Oct 2014

A fantastical exploration of inner dialog and existential dread…

Review of Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)

By Monica Castillo (380) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 11 Oct 2014

A fantastical exploration of inner dialog and existential dread…

Review of Left Behind (2014)

By Monica Castillo (380) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 08 Oct 2014

The movie unravels in its own destruction…

Review of Left Behind (2014)

By Monica Castillo (380) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 08 Oct 2014

The movie unravels in its own destruction…

Review of Life of Crime (2013)

By Monica Castillo (380) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 03 Sep 2014

In short, Life of Crime is guilty of making me want to dig out my copy of Jackie Brown…

Review of Love Is Strange (2014)

By Monica Castillo (380) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 22 Aug 2014

Despite spending most of the screentime apart, the audience is invited to enjoy Ben and George's company as much as they do…

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Monica Castillo has written reviews for:

Variety (12,700)
Washington Post (9,851)
The New York Times (9,847)
Village Voice (8,525)
New York Times (5,786)
RogerEbert.com (5,563)
The Playlist (3,871)
TheWrap (3,203)
Little White Lies (3,136)
The Guardian (2,969)

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