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Movie Reviews by Richard Lawson - Page 18 of 27

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Review of Lizzie (2018)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 16 Feb 2018

Lizzie isn’t a bad film, but it doesn’t accomplish all that it wants to—and all I wanted it to…

Review of Black Panther (2018)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 07 Feb 2018

Black Panther works best as a dynastic drama, and as a musing on global politics from a perspective we don’t often get…

Review of Hereditary (2018)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 06 Feb 2018

Writer-director Ari Aster, making a promising feature debut, has created plenty of forbidding atmosphere; there’s almost no shot in the film…

Review of Skate Kitchen (2018)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 26 Jan 2018

The wonderful thing about Skate Kitchen is how inviting it is, welcoming you into its community and showing you around with cheery spunk…

Review of Monsters and Men (2018)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 22 Jan 2018

Though all three sections of the film have didactic bits when big ideas are plainly stated, the bulk of Monsters and Men renders huge issues…

Review of The Tale (2018)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 22 Jan 2018

There’s a bracingly alive quality to The Tale, as if it’s sentient and thinking in real time, giving the piece a gripping immediacy…

Review of Phantom Thread (2017)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 20 Dec 2017

What initially seems like another alienating P.T.A. outing reveals itself, in quiet but glorious bursts, to be a wry and heartfelt love poem…

Review of All the Money in the World (2017)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 20 Dec 2017

The film shows—and says plainly, at one point—that people with extreme wealth are so divorced from reality that they become almost another…

Review of The Greatest Showman (2017)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 20 Dec 2017

The film may be a vessel for some noxious, platitudinous cynicism, but there’s nevertheless something still quaint about it…

Review of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 12 Dec 2017

The Force is, to me, still silly Star Wars mumbo jumbo, but Johnson finds a way to underscore it with humanity, with a classical Greek rumble…

Review of The Post (2017)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 09 Dec 2017

The movie’s messaging is solid and persuasive, and Spielberg’s finely honed filmmaking, his sense of movement and controlled spectacle,…

Review of Justice League (2017)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 09 Dec 2017

The film is, plainly stated, terrible, and I’m sorry that everyone wasted their time and money making it—and that people are being asked…

Review of My Friend Dahmer (2017)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 09 Dec 2017

My Friend Dahmer doesn’t present some rueful wish that, oh, young Jeffrey might have made it if only someone had reached out to him…

Review of Wonder Wheel (2017)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 09 Dec 2017

There is simultaneously a beautiful movie and a good play hidden somewhere in Woody Allen’s new melodrama, Wonder Wheel, a slight and clunky…

Review of Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 09 Dec 2017

The movie is fun enough, and Waititi shows enough moxie and goofy wit throughout, that instead of feeling glad that he’d been hired to direct…

Review of Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 09 Dec 2017

While it certainly stimulated and overwhelmed my senses, Blade Runner 2049 rarely got my mind whirring the way one always hopes this kind of…

Review of Darkest Hour (2017)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 21 Nov 2017

Oldman does a wizardly bit of becoming, making all these changes in voice, bearing, and proportion without putting on too many actorly airs;…

Review of The Shape of Water (2017)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 17 Nov 2017

Del Toro has said that this film is a long-gestating labor of love, a devotion that shows in every frame…

Review of Murder on the Orient Express (2017)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 09 Nov 2017

Branagh is more preoccupied with the challenges of keeping a movie set in a series of steel tubes visually interesting than he is in engaging…

Review of Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 18 Sep 2017

a squicky melange of sloppy plot mechanics and potentially problematic stuff…

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