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Laura Clifford

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Biography:

Reeling: The Movie Review Show has been produced by Robin and Laura Clifford at the Malden, Massachusetts cable access television station, MATV, since March 16,1991. Reeling is also cablecast around Greater Boston and across the country. It is also available for streaming on Vimeo and at https://www.reelingreviews.com/. Robin and Laura have attended film courses at Emerson College and workshops in 16 mm film production at the Boston Film and Video Foundation.

Favorites:

Red Sid and Nancy Aguirre, the Wrath of God The Decalogue The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Being There The Wizard of Oz

Location:

Boston, MA

Official Website:

http://www.reelingreviews.com

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Hokum (2026) 88% B EDIT “Mc Carthy and his cinematographer Colm Hogan use the hotel’s spaces for maximum effect...[and] gives his film such a satisfying wrap, he leaves you wondering if Bauman was right in the first place. ” – Reeling Reviews Apr 29, 2026 Full Review The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) 78% B EDIT “the original film’s main cast return twenty-two years later with a sequel that largely works once one gets past a fairly defanged Miranda Priestly...Of course, in many ways, the more things change, the more they stay the same.” – Reeling Reviews Apr 29, 2026 Full Review Deep Water (2026) 80% C EDIT “if Harlin's intent was to evoke gales of laughter over various shark deaths, mission accomplished. All that and Sir Ben Kingsley sings karaoke!” – Reeling Reviews Apr 28, 2026 Full Review Blue Heron (2025) 100% B+ EDIT “Writer/director Sophy Romvari's feature debut is based on her own experience and she's created a uniquely effective device to construct her film...a wistful reflection on a painful family event.” – Reeling Reviews Apr 25, 2026 Full Review Mother Mary (2026) 71% C+ EDIT “It would appear that writer/director David Lowery has watched Peter Strickland's "In Fabric," a fellow A24 release, one time too many.” – Reeling Reviews Apr 22, 2026 Full Review Omaha (2025) 90% A- EDIT “Cole Webley makes his feature debut and all the right moves with things both said and unsaid in Robert Machoian's screenplay, using the wide open landscape of the American West to present the death of the American Dream in the most heartbreaking terms. ” – Reeling Reviews Apr 21, 2026 Full Review Over Your Dead Body (2026) 68% C EDIT “director Jorma Taccone evidently thinks that seeing someone's head get blown in half is a punchline and it could be if violent escalation wasn't all this movie has going for it.” – Reeling Reviews Apr 20, 2026 Full Review L’attachement (2024) B+ EDIT “The 2026 César winner for Best Film...is a moving, deeply human example of the old adage 'it takes a village to raise a child.' ” – Reeling Reviews Apr 20, 2026 Full Review Normal (2025) 75% B EDIT “"Nobody" and "John Wick" screenwriter Derek Kolstad serves up a modern Western that plays like the last act of the John Wick "Ballerina" spinoff crossed with "Fargo," but while its action tropes are familiar, director Ben Wheatley stages them with flair ” – Reeling Reviews Apr 15, 2026 Full Review I Swear (2025) 97% B EDIT “it's not just Aramayo who impresses here...The movie, itself, though, falters, David Davidson's abandonment of his family coming out of nowhere and writer/director Kirk Jones embracing movie-of-the-week cliche in his final act.” – Reeling Reviews Apr 14, 2026 Full Review The Stranger (2025) 91% A EDIT “Composer Fatima Al Qadiri combines Middle Eastern instruments and synthesizer to eerie, haunting effect, a call to something other than prayer. With his adaptation, Ozon has created the definitive cinematic version of the existentialist classic.” – Reeling Reviews Apr 13, 2026 Full Review Wasteman (2025) 100% B+ EDIT “Jonsson and Blyth make for a dynamic pairing, a lamb and a lion. Jonsson wears a perpetual frown, his forehead creased with worry, while Blyth's very expression is a challenge, his posture domineering. ” – Reeling Reviews Apr 12, 2026 Full Review The Christophers (2025) 97% A- EDIT “Soderbergh delivers his best film since "Traffic." Casting Coel and McKellen was inspired, two actors of different generations and backgrounds who are simply dazzling paired together. ” – Reeling Reviews Apr 12, 2026 Full Review Exit 8 (2025) 93% B- EDIT “Genki Kawamura's addition of a psychological basis for the lost man's plunge into an endless loop of an underground subway corridor isn't integrated into his adaptation of the video game well enough to make its rules representative of the man's conundrum ” – Reeling Reviews Apr 6, 2026 Full Review Faces of Death (2026) 68% C+ EDIT “could and should have been so much better. Dacre Montgomery's Arthur, the killer in the white stocking mask, is chilling...Barbie Ferreira keeps us on her side even as the script betrays her” – Reeling Reviews Apr 6, 2026 Full Review Hamlet (2025) 72% B- EDIT “flawed, especially in its muted first half, but builds into a fiery finish ignited by the contemporary Kathak dance which indicts Claudius at his wedding reception.” – Reeling Reviews Apr 6, 2026 Full Review My Father's Shadow (2025) 97% A EDIT “an emotional knockout....Sopé Dìrísù rises to the immense challenge of portraying this man determined to right his own father's wrongs” – Reeling Reviews Apr 1, 2026 Full Review The Drama (2026) 77% EDIT “Borgli has specialized in a type of dark comedy where people's worst impulses spiral out of control. But while that is also true of his latest, what he's pinned on Emma is a really questionable choice to mine for comedy. ” – Reeling Reviews Mar 31, 2026 Full Review Fantasy Life (2025) 82% B- EDIT “an off-kilter romcom set within a sprawling Jewish family that errs on the side of restraint despite its combustible climax.” – Reeling Reviews Mar 30, 2026 Full Review Days and Nights in the Forest (1970) 100% A EDIT “shows us a playful Satyajit Ray working on a global stage while still exposing the class injustices of his home country. Janus's 4K restoration release of this 1970 film deserves celebration.” – Reeling Reviews Mar 30, 2026 Full Review Marc by Sofia (2025) 74% B EDIT “...this one is coming from shared experience and has the aesthetic of a scrapbook, memories and cultural signifiers laid out like fabric swatches on a designer's work table.” – Reeling Reviews Mar 26, 2026 Full Review The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026) 90% C+ EDIT “won't tell anyone who's read anything at all about the subject anything new, instead appearing to be a documentary essay to ease the filmmaker's own anxieties...and it sure didn't make me an apocaloptimist.” – Reeling Reviews Mar 24, 2026 Full Review Miroirs No. 3 (2025) 95% B EDIT “a most peculiar ghost story, a case of post-trauma shifting identities told with humor, heart and a dash of mystery...may have a light touch, but its psychology digs deep.” – Reeling Reviews Mar 24, 2026 Full Review A Magnificent Life (2025) 60% B+ EDIT “Sylvain Chomet employs his distinct animation style of hand drawn, exaggerated characterizations cast in autumnal nostalgia to bring decades of one of France's most prolific literary figures to life.” – Reeling Reviews Mar 23, 2026 Full Review The Serpent's Skin (2025) 93% B- EDIT “Mackay displays a similar sensibility to "I Saw the TV Glow's" Jane Schoenbrun with themes of finding one's identity, a nostalgia for 90's television and love of shocking pink. ” – Reeling Reviews Mar 23, 2026 Full Review
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