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Review of Amsterdam (2022)

By Ryan Swen (11) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 04 Oct 2022

The film recalls nothing less than Inherent Vice in its use of a threadbare detective narrative to explore both human interactions and grander…

Review of West Side Story (2021)

By Ryan Swen (11) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 02 Dec 2021

When the very ground on which people live becomes uncertain, the necessity of passion—in love, in combat—becomes all the more apparent,…

Review of Licorice Pizza (2021)

By Ryan Swen (11) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 23 Nov 2021

Hoffman and Haim are quite natural and relaxed in the way they carry themselves, the former filled with an awkward confidence and the latter…

Review of Honeyland (2019)

By Ryan Swen (11) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 25 Jul 2019

It is entirely to Stefanov and Kotevska’s credit that Honeyland rarely comes across as a simple “individual tradition vs…

Review of Notes on an Appearance (2018)

By Ryan Swen (11) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 04 Sep 2018

Though some of the larger, existential questions raised by the film may remain resolutely unresolved (for better and worse), this is a feature…

Review of The Wild Boys (2017)

By Ryan Swen (11) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 23 Aug 2018

This is one of the more truly strange visions from narrative cinema in the past few years, one that dares and succeeds as much as it fails…

Review of Crazy Rich Asians (2018)

By Ryan Swen (11) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 14 Aug 2018

As a movie that has positioned itself as the first in a hypothetical wave of representation, Crazy Rich Asians is blatantly diminished by its…

Review of Spettacolo (2017)

By Ryan Swen (11) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 10 Sep 2017

If Spettacolo has a significant flaw, it is in the somewhat pedestrian and placid manner in which it is constructed…

Review of Deidra & Laney Rob a Train (2017)

By Ryan Swen (11) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 12 Jul 2017

A film that feels both pleasing and vaguely unformed…

Review of Bronx Gothic (2017)

By Ryan Swen (11) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 12 Jul 2017

Bronx Gothic is not a filmed performance or a pat dissection of what, exactly, the piece comprises, but a hybrid of the best impulses of those…

Review of Casting JonBenet (2017)

By Ryan Swen (11) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 27 Apr 2017

For all of the technical skill of the production (and the general lack thereof among the actors), there is a sense of hollowness, as if Green’s…

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Ryan Swen has written 11 movie reviews between 27 Apr 2017 and 04 Oct 2022.

This film critic has awarded movies a score of 79% on average.

Ryan Swen has awarded high ratings to Licorice Pizza (2021), West Side Story (2021), Amsterdam (2022), Honeyland (2019) and The Wild Boys (2017). Read some of the reviews on this page to find out why Ryan Swen liked these movies so much.

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