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Review of Sundown (2022)

By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 31 Jan 2022

As a whole, the film lacks the courage of its own despair. The longer it goes on, the more Franco feels obliged to pack it with plot and context…

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Review of Compartment No. 6 (2021)

By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 25 Jan 2022

The movie sinks, fast and deep, under the weight of dramatic shortcuts, overemphatic details, undercooked possibilities, unconsidered implications…

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Review of The Tender Bar (2021)

By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 10 Jan 2022

The gist of the critical response has been that The Tender Bar follows a well-worn path. Fair enough, but is that such a sin…

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Review of Don't Look Up (2021)

By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 06 Jan 2022

The failure of topicality in “Don’t Look Up” is, not least, that the movie’s cynically apolitical view of politics contributes to the…

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Review of The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 03 Jan 2022

The action and the effects, so gleamingly creative in the original trilogy, are now C.G.I…

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Review of The Lost Daughter (2021)

By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 03 Jan 2022

It’s a movie that, in adapting a novel by Ferrante, indicates the grievous lack in the current cinema of dramas that do what is done all…

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Review of Parallel Mothers (2021)

By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 03 Jan 2022

Almodóvar pursues the politics of memory with uninhibited vigor, with a relentlessly physical immediacy that endows his tale of startling…

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Review of Parallel Mothers (2021)

By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 03 Jan 2022

Here is Cruz at her least showy and yet her most adventurous, allowing a storm of confusion to sweep across her face as she sits at a café…

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Review of The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 03 Jan 2022

The over-all effect is of a striving toward a high style that isn’t achieved—and that undercuts the mighty import of the play…

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Review of The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 03 Jan 2022

The over-all effect is of a striving toward a high style that isn’t achieved—and that undercuts the mighty import of the play…

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Review of Nightmare Alley (2021)

By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 20 Dec 2021

The film’s overbearing effort to say something serious about society at large seems to force del Toro’s directorial hand…

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Review of Red Rocket (2021)

By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 17 Dec 2021

Red Rocket is over-plotted, over-aestheticized, under-characterized, and under-observed…

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Review of West Side Story (2021)

By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 15 Dec 2021

The best things in [Spielberg's] version of “West Side Story”—the songs, their acerbity, the view of racial discrimination and class…

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Review of West Side Story (2021)

By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 14 Dec 2021

Spielberg’s panache and command are evident in every nook of this handsome film…

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Review of Don't Look Up (2021)

By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 14 Dec 2021

McKay has a point, though his frame of reference hardly stretches beyond the United States, and the stink of localized political contempt all…

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Review of Being the Ricardos (2021)

By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 09 Dec 2021

In peeling away the myths of pop culture and its lovable celebrities, Sorkin reveals the source of its mighty and lasting power…

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Review of I Was a Simple Man (2021)

By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 08 Dec 2021

Yogi unfolds the characters’ intimate stories and the region’s history in sharply textured details and rapturous images; he blends social…

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Review of Listening to Kenny G (2021)

By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 06 Dec 2021

Listening to Kenny G subtly and surely teases out the mighty and overarching idea of the inseparability of the artist and the art, the notion…

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Review of Licorice Pizza (2021)

By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 01 Dec 2021

Haim brings a constant and instant focus even to riskily inchoate emotions, and Hoffman lends his driven energumen a lambent glow of innocence…

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Review of Joji (2021)

By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 30 Nov 2021

Long before the plot is resolved, Joji offers a sardonic vision of patriarchal tyranny and the pathologies it spawns—and the obvious artifice…

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