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By Shirley Li (36) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 25 Aug 2021

With Zola, however, the director Janicza Bravo has made a film that contends with the uneasy interplay between characters’ online and offline…

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By Alice Saville (4) for Time Out (7,510) on 10 Aug 2021

Bravo’s movie is so pacy, so compelling that it doesn’t quite have space to land the full horror of Zola and Stefani’s situation…

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By Wendy Ide (1,500) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 09 Aug 2021

What makes this particular adaptation, co-written by Bravo and Jeremy O Harris, sing is the fact that, while it winks at Twitter with a smattering…

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By Robbie Collin (1,612) for The Telegraph (1,120) on 06 Aug 2021

At the very end of Janicza Bravo’s Zola, just as you’re struggling to comprehend what on earth the film is supposed to amount to, there…

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By Donald Clarke (1,051) for The Irish Times (483) on 06 Aug 2021

Time will tell if the social media thread is set to become the epic poem of the new millennium…

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By Peter Bradshaw (3,667) for The Guardian (2,969) on 04 Aug 2021

Now this has been turned into a very entertaining lowlife crime comedy from director and co-writer Janicza Bravo, a film that preserves the…

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By Hanna Flint (37) for Empire (3,446) on 03 Aug 2021

Bravo stylishly delivers a dreamlike odyssey with slick, character-driven performances full of conviction, but that courage dissipates by the…

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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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By Constance Grady (10) for Vox (725) on 08 Jul 2021

Paige’s steeliness gives this movie its heart, and the deadpan terseness of her narration (“they started fucking, it was gross”) gives…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 07 Jul 2021

A dizzying story told at a dizzying pace, Zola might register for some as a transgressive lark (it certainly has comic touches, including a…

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By K. Austin Collins (343) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 06 Jul 2021

Bravo, abetted by a cast that couldn’t be more game, turns a classic case of “These white people will be the death of me” — a familiar…

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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 01 Jul 2021

Zola’s authorship and Bravo’s respect for her storytelling make Zola a wholly original experience…

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By Sheila O'malley (474) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 01 Jul 2021

This is the kind of film that tells its story well while simultaneously showing the joy of the creative act, in Bravo's filmmaking, yes, but…

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By Kim Hughes (164) for Original-Cin (1,156) on 30 Jun 2021

There is a bristling, neon energy to Zola which, given its provenance as a series of real-life tweets from waitress and exotic dancer (and…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 30 Jun 2021

Despite its unconventional source material, it turns out to be surprisingly well-crafted, elevated by breathtaking central performances and…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 30 Jun 2021

Janicza Bravo prioritizes character and personal eccentricity, in the process truly earning the screenplay’s cutting observations about how…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 30 Jun 2021

The film is about the power of storytelling, and not in the cornball, self-congratulatory sense in which that phrase is normally deployed…

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By Selome Hailu (10) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 30 Jun 2021

Presumably the first ever feature film adapted from a Twitter thread, Zola makes use of the graphics and sound effects of the internet, as…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 30 Jun 2021

A hilariously dark and dirty road comedy built on a stripper’s “my hand to God this happened” tweets…

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By Lindsey Bahr (430) for The Associated Press (882) on 30 Jun 2021

Taylour Paige is phenomenal, for one. The movie, though, is a bold and admirable experiment that doesn’t totally work…

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