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Peter Goldberg

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The Moneychanger (2019) 62% 2.5/4 EDIT “Federico Veiroj continuously underlines in red ink his protagonist's cowardness, impulsive greediness, and lust.” – Slant Magazine Sep 9, 2019 Full Review Jawline (2019) 97% 3/4 EDIT “The film is refreshing for its lack of pearl-clutching, its ambivalence in assessing what it's like to be a commodity with a will and a nervous system.” – Slant Magazine Aug 20, 2019 Full Review Tel Aviv on Fire (2018) 89% 1.5/4 EDIT “Playfully biting as it can be, Tel Aviv on Fire tends to falter when it loses sight of the target of its satire.” – Slant Magazine Jul 29, 2019 Full Review The Image You Missed (2018) 100% 3/4 EDIT “The film finds Dónal Foreman exploring the suggestive gaps that exist between his own biography and that of his father.” – Slant Magazine May 29, 2019 Full Review Ask Dr. Ruth (2019) 93% 2.5/4 EDIT “At its best, the film is a testament to how Ruth Westheimer's practiced decency was literally a saving grace during the Reagan era.” – Slant Magazine Apr 29, 2019 Full Review Fausto (2018) 100% 3/4 EDIT “The shadowed border between human and non-human perception is one of the film's sustained topics of interrogation.” – Slant Magazine Apr 3, 2019 Full Review The Beach Bum (2019) 58% 3/4 EDIT “With the film, Harmony Korine solidifies his position as the premier cartographer of the Sunshine State as a place of unhurried pursuits.” – Slant Magazine Mar 28, 2019 Full Review The Mustang (2019) 95% 2.5/4 EDIT “Single-minded and direct in its execution, the film is a hard look at the extremes of masculine guilt and healing.” – Slant Magazine Mar 11, 2019 Full Review Fighting With My Family (2019) 93% 2.5/4 EDIT “The film, in the end, falls prey to the sports biopic's worst tendency: its harried attempt to condense its subject to a few easy-to-parse moments of struggle and triumph.” – Slant Magazine Feb 11, 2019 Full Review What Men Want (2019) 41% 2/4 EDIT “This gender-swapped update of What Women Want doesn't pass up the opportunity to undercut itself whenever it gets the chance.” – Slant Magazine Feb 7, 2019 Full Review Caniba (2017) 58% 3/4 EDIT “Throughout Caniba, there's a singularly disquieting relationship between the filmmakers' formal experimentation and their subject.” – Slant Magazine Oct 15, 2018 Full Review The Oath (2018) 63% 1.5/4 EDIT “Even while it asks us to recognize ourselves in a world not too distant from our own, The Oath seems to say that the worst part of a full-fledged American dystopia would be the ruined holiday dinners.” – Slant Magazine Oct 7, 2018 Full Review Colette (2018) 87% 3/4 EDIT “It's the film's concerted emphasis on Colette's ambivalent nature and desires that reveals her to be an artist just ahead of her time, fighting against, yet seduced by, her present.” – Slant Magazine Sep 5, 2018 Full Review Never Goin' Back (2018) 76% 2.5/4 EDIT “Frizzell uses that kinship as a jumping-off point to a funny and surprisingly tender, if at times frustratingly uneven, film.” – Slant Magazine Jul 30, 2018 Full Review Oh Lucy! (2017) 98% 2.5/4 EDIT “Atsuko Hirayanagi's feature-length directorial debut, Oh Lucy!, offers a surprising take on the tricky art of communication.” – Slant Magazine Feb 27, 2018 Full Review Mary and The Witch's Flower (2017) 89% 2.5/4 EDIT “This is a film about the adolescent pangs to belong that also mines its tale of magic and malevolence for an imaginative allegory about the excesses of scientific inquiry.” – Slant Magazine Jan 15, 2018 Full Review Bitter Money (2016) 89% 3.5/4 EDIT “Wang Bing's Bitter Money straddles a line between raw information and a formed, if open-ended, narrative. More” – Slant Magazine Jan 10, 2018 Full Review Shadowman (2017) 95% 2.5/4 EDIT “This is a gruesome art-world fairy tale unafraid to face the bitter details of its hero's tumultuous life.” – Slant Magazine Nov 27, 2017 Full Review Novitiate (2017) 85% 2.5/4 EDIT “The film's meditative and excessive sides never quite cohere, giving the impression of watching two distinct films that are jostling against each other, rather than united in a single story.” – Slant Magazine Oct 24, 2017 Full Review Liberation Day (2016) 67% 2.5/4 EDIT “Throughout, the documentary wavers between a sincere investigation of the avant-garde music group Laibach and self-satire.” – Slant Magazine Oct 15, 2017 Full Review Nobody's Watching (2017) 88% 2.5/4 EDIT “Julia Solomonoff's film ripples with a palpable sense of the sheer distance between the down and out actor at its center and his goals.” – Slant Magazine Sep 7, 2017 Full Review Dolores (2017) 98% 2.5/4 EDIT “Peter Bratt's documentary sharply trumpets Dolores Huerta's life and centrality in the turbulent history of social justice since the '60s.” – Slant Magazine Aug 29, 2017 Full Review Brigsby Bear (2017) 83% 2.5/4 EDIT “Brigsby Bear has such a goofy sense of humor and affection for its premise that its uneven narrative is sometimes only as frustrating as a little static on an old VHS.” – Slant Magazine Jul 24, 2017 Full Review War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) 94% 3/4 EDIT “The psychological wars that have made the prequels simmer with tightly wound tensions are given their most cutting treatment yet.” – Slant Magazine Jun 26, 2017 Full Review The Big Sick (2017) 98% 3/4 EDIT “Michael Showalter's The Big Sick puts a thoughtful spin on the rom-com, though maybe it's more accurate to call the film a rom-com interrupted.” – Slant Magazine Jun 19, 2017 Full Review
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