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Review of Elephant (2020)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 02 Apr 2020

It’s a solid nature movie, not quite factual enough to be a true work of scientific observation, but engaging and persuasively conservationist…

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Review of Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 26 Mar 2020

It handles a tricky topic with so much persuasively unadorned compassion that it has the genuine potential to change hearts and minds about…

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Review of To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 26 Mar 2020

While Michael Fimognari’s film does have some heart-fluttery moments—chiefly the first reappearance of heartthrob Peter (Noah Centineo),…

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Review of The Lodge (2020)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 26 Mar 2020

The Lodge falls into the more common trap of spinning its wheels in a mudbath of obviousness and red herrings, dredging up anxieties and questions…

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Review of Stargirl (2020)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 26 Mar 2020

There’s something sweetly clumsy about how Stargirl invites us back in time, to twenty years ago, when such a made-up person might have surprised…

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Review of Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (2020)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 26 Mar 2020

The film is sturdy, galvanizing, the sort of movie that might help rouse people out of despair and into the good fight…

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Review of First Cow (2020)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 06 Mar 2020

It manages to be about a great many things—but above all, it’s a movie about two men, two bodies, and the masculine, economic codes of…

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Review of The Way Back (2020)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 04 Mar 2020

With The Way Back, O’Connor works so hard to avoid sports movie cliché that he pares the film down to something unsustainably lean…

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Review of Onward (2020)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 26 Feb 2020

It’s a fine movie: cute, clever, moving, and engagingly-told, an altogether painless confirmation of what we should all agree is Pixar’s…

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Review of The Invisible Man (2020)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 26 Feb 2020

The Invisible Man loses its personality as it tumbles into the third act, and with it goes a lot of the emotional fiber Moss has worked so…

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Review of Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) (2020)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 07 Feb 2020

It’s a freeing movie, not without its flaws and missteps, but wonderfully alive with all the looseness of new possibility…

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Review of The Father (2020)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 01 Feb 2020

The Father is an act of understanding, radical in its toughness and its generous artistry…

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Review of Worth (2021)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 29 Jan 2020

Colangelo grapples with all that is unfixed in this story with wise consideration…

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Review of Miss Americana (2020)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 29 Jan 2020

The film looks away from that pure artistry too often, turning instead to its limited, and far less satisfying, view of Swift’s complicated…

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Review of Promising Young Woman (2020)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 29 Jan 2020

Promising Young Woman is not always surefooted in its style or substance, but Mulligan is consistently riveting throughout…

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Review of On the Record (2020)

By Jordan Hoffman (1,025) for Vanity Fair (761) on 29 Jan 2020

On the Record itself is a thorough and self-aware film…

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Review of Shirley (2020)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 29 Jan 2020

Shirley is a relentless film, ceaselessly in motion. Its actors, then, must go chasing after it, with Moss leading the fearless charge…

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Review of Downhill (2020)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 27 Jan 2020

Downhill is a clever movie when it could have been profound, had, perhaps, Faxon and Rash been willing—or capable—of digging deeper…

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Review of Zola (2021)

By Richard Lawson (539) for Vanity Fair (761) on 25 Jan 2020

Though premised on the slight pretenses of Twitter, the world of Bravo’s film is no fictionalized, seedily appealing underbelly…

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Review of The Turning (2020)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 24 Jan 2020

Somehow, a James novella whose subtext has been debated for over a century has been rendered almost free of subtext—and it sort of works…

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