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Review of The Souvenir: Part II (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 04 Nov 2021

It’s a specific character study told with the ambition that small, arty projects are rarely afforded—a complex and deeply realized story…

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Review of Spencer (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 04 Nov 2021

Coupled with Stewart’s exposed nerve of a performance, the suffocating intensity of Larraín’s filmmaking, and Jonny Greenwood’s droning…

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Review of Last Night in Soho (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 29 Oct 2021

While Wright remains exceptionally gifted at mashing up genres to create moments of real cinematic lightning, by and large, Last Night in Soho…

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Review of The French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 29 Oct 2021

It moves quickly but exhaustingly; if you’re tired of one trope, there’s always a new one waiting excitedly around the corner…

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Review of Eternals (2021)

By Shirley Li (36) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 26 Oct 2021

Zhao's delicate examination of her characters outshines Eternals' duller and more convoluted moments…

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Review of Dune (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 20 Oct 2021

Ferguson is the star of the show, imperious one moment and fragile the next, torn between nurturing her son’s purpose and protecting him…

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Review of The Last Duel (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 13 Oct 2021

Scott has long made movies about how systems of power exist to serve only the powerful, from the faceless corporations of Alien to the indifferent…

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Review of Titane (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 08 Oct 2021

Ducournau challenges viewers to find the humanity in a character who seems intent on rejecting her own, all while provoking as many laughs as gasps…

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Review of No Time to Die (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 05 Oct 2021

It’s ambitious, sprawling, and sometimes shockingly counter to tradition for the series…

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Review of The Many Saints of Newark (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 01 Oct 2021

A number of the observations about the strictures of gangland life that The Many Saints of Newark bumps up against are compelling, but the…

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Review of Venom: Let There Be Carnage (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 01 Oct 2021

Venom may not have realized it was a so-bad-it’s-good cult classic, but Let There Be Carnage is striving to maintain that status from minute one…

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Review of Dear Evan Hansen (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 27 Sep 2021

Almost everything imaginable has gone wrong on the journey from stage to screen, and the result is a film that isn’t even “so bad it’s…

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Review of Cinderella (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 17 Sep 2021

Everything in Cinderella, admirable as its message may be, is soulless—and that robs it of any joy…

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Review of Cinderella (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 17 Sep 2021

Everything in Cinderella, admirable as its message may be, is soulless—and that robs it of any joy…

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Review of The Card Counter (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 17 Sep 2021

William is a strong character on his own, but he is also a metaphor for America’s struggle to overcome its grimmest failures and to break…

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Review of Worth (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 17 Sep 2021

Watching the bureaucracy shift from a source of frustration to comfort gives the film its arresting tension…

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Review of Cry Macho (2021)

By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 15 Sep 2021

Cry Macho is almost like a Western paced at half speed, told with the deliberateness demanded by a 91-year-old movie star…

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Review of Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021)

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

Sometimes Shang-Chi is a straightforward martial-arts drama, all fistfights and meticulous choreography…

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Review of Black Widow (2021)

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

The messy third act, and its insistence on making Natasha infallible, doesn’t ruin the film…

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Review of Zola (2021)

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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