Review of Amsterdam (2022) by Manohla Dargis for The New York Times — 19 Oct 2022
Throughout, Russell keeps going and moving, moving and going, but the momentum never builds the way it should, and the big reveal lands flat partly because he never seems taken with the history he’s latched onto or comfortable with its heaviness.
Or perhaps it’s the contemporary parallels that make him uneasy and why, again and again, he returns to the faces and filigree that he gets just right.
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This review of Amsterdam (2022) was written by Manohla Dargis and published by The New York Times on 19 Oct 2022.
Amsterdam has generally received mixed reviews.
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