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Richard Larson

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Of an Age (2022) 88% 3/4 EDIT “The ambivalence with which the film treats its main character’s revelation proves rich with complication and offers a new intervention into a genre we thought we’d fully internalized.” – Slant Magazine Feb 16, 2023 Full Review Fire Island (2022) 94% 2.5/4 EDIT “The film is filled with a subtextual nostalgia for a fleeting youth and the urgency of figuring things out before it’s too late.” – Slant Magazine May 26, 2022 Full Review A Quiet Place Part II (2021) 91% 3/4 EDIT “John Krasinski is most in his comfort zone when the importance of family and legacy drives the film's tension.” – Slant Magazine May 18, 2021 Full Review Pet Sematary (2019) 57% 1.5/4 EDIT “The story has enough pathos to fulfill the expectations of a great tragedy, but the film feels like a commercial for something else entirely.” – Slant Magazine Apr 4, 2019 Full Review Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) 60% 2/4 EDIT “Bohemian Rhapsody mistakenly believes that simply trudging through a workmanlike overview of Freddie Mercury's life will allow it to arrive at something approaching intimacy.” – Slant Magazine Oct 23, 2018 Full Review The Little Stranger (2018) 64% 2/4 EDIT “Perhaps the film's failure to surprise in the end is a result of leaning too heavily on a toolbox not yet translated into the language of cinematic form.” – Slant Magazine Aug 30, 2018 Full Review A Quiet Place (2018) 96% 3/4 EDIT “John Krasinski's film turns the act of survival into a powerful statement of defiance against the vagaries of the unknown.” – Slant Magazine Apr 2, 2018 Full Review Love, Simon (2018) 92% 3/4 EDIT “Greg Berlanti's charmingly heartfelt film is a remarkably successful attempt to give shape to the experience of the closet by drawing an incredibly intimate portrait of a teenage boy about to leave it behind.” – Slant Magazine Feb 27, 2018 Full Review Pitch Perfect 3 (2017) 29% 1.5/4 EDIT “Women deserve a better vehicle for demonstrating the power of female solidarity than this empty money grab.” – Slant Magazine Dec 19, 2017 Full Review Beauty and the Beast (2017) 71% 2.5/4 EDIT “Bill Condon's Beauty and the Beast actually delivers a remarkably optimistic balm to a festering, existential wound.” – Slant Magazine Mar 4, 2017 Full Review The Bye Bye Man (2017) 19% 1.5/4 EDIT “Stacy Title's film ends up succeeding most deftly as an advertisement for on-campus housing.” – Slant Magazine Jan 12, 2017 Full Review Pete's Dragon (2016) 88% 2/4 EDIT “It abandons its subtlety and sense of mystery en route to becoming a typically moralistic screed about the preservation of the nuclear family, alongside an obvious but never-quite-resolved cautionary tale about the importance of conservation.” – Slant Magazine Jul 27, 2016 Full Review Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (2016) 47% 2/4 EDIT “The juxtaposition of courtship and violence is the film's one true coup, but Pride and Prejudice and Zombies still mistakes weaponry for agency.” – Slant Magazine Feb 3, 2016 Full Review Stonewall (2015) 9% 1.5/4 EDIT “At its worst, the film dangerously repackages the queer experience using language invented by those originally deployed to break it apart.” – Slant Magazine Sep 22, 2015 Full Review Pitch Perfect 2 (2015) 66% 3/4 EDIT “Even stronger than its predecessor, which didn't quite go as far in terms of representing these young women in a wider context.” – Slant Magazine May 12, 2015 Full Review The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014) 59% 3/4 EDIT “These films, and Tolkien's entire oeuvre, are most affecting in their depictions of friendship, and the performances here represent platonic male intimacy in convincing, often moving ways.” – Slant Magazine Dec 1, 2014 Full Review The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 (2014) 70% EDIT “As a metaphor for the way we respond to the media, and the way our politics are funneled through the media lens, the film succeeds most when it revels in ambiguity.” – Slant Magazine Nov 19, 2014 Full Review The Maze Runner (2014) 66% 2.5/4 EDIT “A curious blend of our newly acquired taste for dystopia alongside a healthy sprinkling of Lord of the Flies, the film offers familiar pleasures without prompting the sense of having already been here before.” – Slant Magazine Sep 18, 2014 Full Review If I Stay (2014) 36% 1/4 EDIT “The film, based on the novel by Gayle Forman, is an almost deliberate confirmation of Alison Bechdel's claim that women in film are so often shown only in relation to men.” – Slant Magazine Aug 21, 2014 Full Review The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013) 90% 3/4 EDIT “Francis Lawrence imbues the source material with visceral pleasure in well-wrought scenes vacillating between elaborate spectacle, breathtaking terror, and--occasionally--surprising beauty.” – Slant Magazine Nov 15, 2013 Full Review The Great Gatsby (2013) 49% 2.5/4 EDIT “This is a film which takes classic source material and imbues it on screen with a sense of wonder commensurate to its prior form, perhaps offering an even more visceral impression of the possibilities inherent to this beautiful, tragic world.” – Slant Magazine May 8, 2013 Full Review Warm Bodies (2013) 81% 3/4 EDIT “It flouts convention in a number of ways in service of its genre-mash-up agenda while still contributing something original to the tradition of the zombie film.” – Slant Magazine Jan 31, 2013 Full Review The Tall Man (2012) 40% 3/4 EDIT “Pascal Laugier's film illustrates the problem of class mobility with a dark, troubling premise that holds a harsh light up to our own assumptions and expectations.” – Slant Magazine Aug 30, 2012 Full Review Brave (2012) 78% 2/4 EDIT “Pixar's latest ultimately offers nothing more than a caricature of a well-worn conceit.” – Slant Magazine Jun 15, 2012 Full Review The Hunger Games (2012) 84% EDIT “Ross offers something in his film adaptation of the novel that Collins, writing with Katniss's voice, never could: the experience of watching the Hunger Games, rather than being a contestant in them.” – Slant Magazine Mar 20, 2012 Full Review
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