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Review of Zola (2021)

By Sarah-Tai Black (68) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 08 Jul 2021

Bravo’s style echoes King’s own: It is fun and whimsical, formally playful, sometimes bordering on the fantastic but always grounded in…

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Review of Spiral: From the Book of Saw (2021)

By Sarah-Tai Black (68) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 27 May 2021

Spiral too often gets in its own way and reveals its internal machinations before they’re due…

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Review of In Our Mothers' Gardens (2021)

By Sarah-Tai Black (68) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 10 May 2021

It’s a film to be watched not for its more literal filmmaking achievements, but rather for its ability to make you feel seen, with vulnerability…

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Review of Bad Trip (2021)

By Sarah-Tai Black (68) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 26 Mar 2021

The laughs are certainly there, but Andre’s almost trademark sense of intentional derangement is missing and in many ways, this is one of…

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Review of Rose Plays Julie (2021)

By Sarah-Tai Black (68) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 18 Mar 2021

A deeply aware film, Rose Plays Julie allows for the fantastic as a means and space of catharsis…

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Review of The Inheritance (2020)

By Sarah-Tai Black (68) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 11 Mar 2021

It is didactic without losing its sense of organicism; it is radical without losing its sense of humor; it is intentional in its visual and…

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Review of Test Pattern (2021)

By Sarah-Tai Black (68) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 18 Feb 2021

A deceptively simple and concise narrative structure allows Ford to parse her subject and characters with a graceful internal complexity that…

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Review of One Night in Miami... (2020)

By Sarah-Tai Black (68) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 12 Jan 2021

One Night In Miami is an accomplishment relative to the standards of its industry, but for filmgoers seeking new and exciting work that exists…

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Review of Another Round (2020)

By Sarah-Tai Black (68) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 17 Dec 2020

Vinterberg is a master of storytelling and character here, bringing forth equal parts tragicomedy and suspense in a way that is refreshingly…

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Review of Charm City Kings (2020)

By Sarah Tai-Black (68) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 09 Oct 2020

Overall, it’s a film that is not great but just fine. Its biggest limitations are the ones it places on its own characters…

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Review of The Glorias (2020)

By Sarah Tai-Black (68) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 30 Sep 2020

Alongside a peculiar and overly saccharine intergenerational internal monologue that guides the film, The Glorias doesn’t seem to have learned…

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Review of Antebellum (2020)

By Sarah-Tai Black (68) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 01 Sep 2020

Antebellum is a film that lives smugly within its final reveal – and what’s worse, this reveal is more groan-inducing than anything else…

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Review of The Invisible Man (2020)

By Sarah-Tai Black (68) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 28 Feb 2020

As the film progresses and positions itself closer and closer to visualizing what Adrian might look like, it also becomes more cartoonish…

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Review of Like a Boss (2020)

By Sarah-Tai Black (68) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 08 Jan 2020

The best moments of Like a Boss are just that – moments…

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Review of The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (2019)

By Sarah-Tai Black (68) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 19 Nov 2019

What has been crafted with The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open is the multitudinous reality of past and present, absent and material;…

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Review of Freaks (2019)

By Sarah-Tai Black (68) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 12 Sep 2019

This is clearly a film that favours concept over narrative expansion, and it suffers for this…

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Review of Hustlers (2019)

By Sarah-Tai Black (68) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 10 Sep 2019

It’s a blockbuster movie with a shiny veneer for sure, but it also gives its story the benefit of the doubt with care in its development…

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Review of The Kitchen (2019)

By Sarah-Tai Black (68) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 08 Aug 2019

What The Kitchen serves is a first film sorely in need of a basic primer on how to go about constructing a movie…

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Review of Luce (2019)

By Sarah-Tai Black (68) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 07 Aug 2019

In truth, there is not much this film does not cover; every minute of Luce is saturated with the organicism of its sharp lines of inquiry and…

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Review of Ma (2019)

By Sarah-Tai Black (68) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 30 May 2019

Unfortunately, more often than not, Ma settles into its lack of a refined generic vision and stalls out just before it’s able to hit most…

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