Jonathan Stevenson

Publications: | Brooklyn Magazine |
Movie Reviews Only
Rating | T-Meter | Title | Year | Review |
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50% | The Drowning (2017) |
tackles the weighty themes of voyeurism, altruism, and self-preservation artfully and inventively, subverting clichés and taking the genre in a refreshing direction‐ Brooklyn Magazine
Read More | Posted May 10, 2017
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86% | Experimenter (2015) |
Experimenter is not only an inventive exploration of the life and personality of an offbeat and perhaps misunderstood intellectual; it is also an exposition of his relentlessly probing mind and jarring revelations.‐ Brooklyn Magazine
Read More | Posted Dec 9, 2016
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40% | Secret in Their Eyes (2015) |
In this rendering, the story seems like little more than a made-for-TV kitchen-sink job about obsession... If there's a political message... it is hackneyed as well as crudely and artlessly delivered.‐ Brooklyn Magazine
Read More | Posted Dec 9, 2016
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93% | River of Grass (1995) |
This unassumingly brilliant filmmaker illuminates the sense and flavor of this disconsolate epoch in all its unheroic vexation.‐ Brooklyn Magazine
Read More | Posted Dec 9, 2016
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95% | Command and Control (2016) |
Robert Kenner's compelling and tense documentary Command and Control... looks at the danger arguably more basic and constant than that of nuclear war in the mere deployment of nuclear weapons in supposedly safe stateside locations.‐ Brooklyn Magazine
Read More | Posted Dec 9, 2016
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65% | Frank & Lola (2016) |
Shannon is indeed outstanding and dominant, but this elegantly minimalist film has still more to recommend it -- notably, the underrated English actress Imogen Poots.‐ Brooklyn Magazine
Read More | Posted Dec 8, 2016
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