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Review of Jockey (2021)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 31 Dec 2021

Jockey has its limits as full-fledged drama; it’s more of a meditation on mortality, as well as a love letter from a filmmaker son to his…

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Review of The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 23 Dec 2021

The Matrix Resurrections is a recycling dump of murky effects, indifferent action and a crazily cluttered, relentlessly repetitive narrative…

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Review of Don't Look Up (2021)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 23 Dec 2021

A plausible premise, right…

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Review of Dead Man's Switch: A Crypto Mystery (2021)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 23 Dec 2021

Ms…

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Review of Swan Song (2021)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 16 Dec 2021

The actor and his director may be addressing the oldest subject in drama. But they manage to give it a new twist nonetheless…

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Review of The Lost Daughter (2021)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 16 Dec 2021

Ms. Gyllenhaal might have chosen conventionally entertaining material for her first time behind the camera, but she and Ms…

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Review of Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 16 Dec 2021

Mr…

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Review of Nightmare Alley (2021)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 16 Dec 2021

Nightmare Alley is, in its entirety, a beautifully visualized period piece that holds our attention and evokes plenty of horror, to be sure,…

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Review of West Side Story (2021)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 09 Dec 2021

Mr. Spielberg’s film is a revelation. He has seized the moment by rethinking and reworking the source material…

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Review of Red Rocket (2021)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 09 Dec 2021

Mr. Rex gives a 100% phenomenal performance, starting with a bright veneer of charm that conceals only barely, then not at all, an unmoored soul…

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Review of Being the Ricardos (2021)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 09 Dec 2021

Why so gloomy? Well, this is a serious movie, for better and, more often, worse…

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Review of The Real Charlie Chaplin (2021)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 09 Dec 2021

Middleton and Spinney are all about the medium’s first megawatt celebrity, who is a slippery enough subject all by himself, one treated here…

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Review of Benedetta (2021)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 03 Dec 2021

This is a significant addition to the Verhoeven canon, meaning it’s elegantly crafted, formidably well performed and as fascinating as it is lurid…

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Review of The Hand of God (2021)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 03 Dec 2021

The Hand of God creates a reality that is by turns hilarious, heartbreaking and remarkable for its buoyancy and grace…

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Review of Flee (2021)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 03 Dec 2021

We are all snapshooters these days, highly placed spectators to tragedy that seems to be beyond our comprehension, let alone control…

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Review of Adrienne (2021)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 02 Dec 2021

It’s also a film made by her grieving husband. On paper, it shouldn’t work at all. It works measurably better on screen…

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Review of Drive My Car (2021)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 24 Nov 2021

What it is can be summed up in a word that’s often used loosely but fits the case here—a masterpiece, a mysteriously enthralling creation…

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Review of House of Gucci (2021)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 24 Nov 2021

I found the film so insistently campy yet painfully mirthless—its style lies somewhere between opera buffa and telenovela—that my mental…

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Review of Licorice Pizza (2021)

By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 24 Nov 2021

[Mr. Anderson's] screenplay soars above and beyond literal references by creating the oddest power couple you’ve ever seen…

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Review of Bruised (2021)

By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 24 Nov 2021

There’s a lot going on and somehow not enough, because the emotional destination is so obvious, the tone so wearying and the performances,…

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