Sarah Marrs
Tomatometer-approved critic
Publications:
Lainey Gossip,
Cinesnark
Movie Reviews Only
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| 60% | Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) |
This film does nothing. It means nothing. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Dec 28, 2020
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| 51% | The Midnight Sky (2020) |
Midnight Sky hangs uneasily together, never quite finding an effective rhythm - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Dec 26, 2020
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| 87% | News of the World (2020) |
The daddest movie of 2020. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Dec 26, 2020
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| 95% | Soul (2020) |
Soul is ... for sure one of the best animated films of the year, but ... it lacks a certain whimsy to appeal to children. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Dec 26, 2020
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| 70% | Tenet (2020) |
Anyone who insists Tenet is Important or Otherwise Notable is probably trying to sell you something. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Dec 26, 2020
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| 98% | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020) |
Ma Rainey is a bitter, aching portrait of Black artists struggling against white capitalism - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Dec 26, 2020
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| 91% | Promising Young Woman (2020) |
With teen-dream style and a heart of festering feminine rage, Promising Young Woman is a nightmare dressed as a daydream. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Dec 15, 2020
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| 83% | Mank (2020) |
A rare miss from David Fincher. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Dec 11, 2020
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| 57% | The Prom (2020) |
If you can just focus on Jo Ellen Pellman and tune literally everything else about The Prom out, you can maybe find the kernel of the film that works, but boy do you have to work hard to get there. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Dec 11, 2020
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| 97% | Sound of Metal (2020) |
Sound of Metal is an above-average addiction drama, and Riz Ahmed is blazingly good as Ruben. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Dec 3, 2020
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| 90% | In the Mood for Love (2001) |
In the Mood for Love is just that: a mood, a feeling, a fancy, transient as the population passing through Hong Kong, and as luscious as an illicit temptation. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Dec 3, 2020
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| 100% | Dick Johnson Is Dead (2020) |
Dick Johnson Is Dead is a deeply personal film, but anyone who has lost or is losing someone to dementia or Alzheimer's will recognize the common struggle within it. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Dec 3, 2020
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| 52% | Hubie Halloween (2020) |
Fresh because it's the first Adam Sandler movie in ages that didn't make me want to scoop my eyeballs out with a spoon. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Dec 3, 2020
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| 81% | Charm City Kings (2020) |
Charm City Kings has a lot of heart underpinning the flashy trappings of the bike riders' subculture. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Dec 3, 2020
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| 98% | The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020) |
It hits all of the beats of a mid-life crisis movie, right down to the affair with a younger person, but Version does it with a style and insight frequently lacking in the genre. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Dec 3, 2020
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| 39% | Rebecca (2020) |
Rebecca is a straightforward adaptation of a story already well told by a master, and one that, in side-stepping the previous adaptation, is left with very little to do. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Dec 3, 2020
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| 99% | Totally Under Control (2020) |
Gibney, Harutyunyan, and Hillinger have crafted a precise timeline for the US's complete breakdown in pandemic response. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Dec 3, 2020
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| 86% | On The Rocks (2020) |
In one way or another, this is ground Coppola has trod before, and previously to better effect in films like Lost in Translation, but for fans of hers, On the Rocks is a perfectly enjoyable 90 minutes - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Dec 3, 2020
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| 94% | Memories of Murder (2003) |
Memories of Murder is a ghastly chord that, once struck, echoes forever. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Dec 3, 2020
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| 27% | Hillbilly Elegy (2020) |
Hillbilly Elegy is exactly the kind of movie that makes "Oscar bait" the target of ridicule. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Dec 3, 2020
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| 72% | LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special (2020) |
Another blatant attempt to capitalize on Star Wars' popularity just in time for the holiday season, and maybe goose toy sales of Rey's yellow lightsaber. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Dec 3, 2020
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| 83% | Happiest Season (2020) |
Happiest Season is charming, funny, and pretty much everything you can ask for from a holiday rom-com. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Dec 3, 2020
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| 91% | The Water Man (2020) |
A family-friendly film that deals in grief in a slightly whimsical but grounded way. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Sep 23, 2020
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| 93% | Another Round (Druk) (2020) |
...a very humanist film, invested in the individual quirks and foibles of its characters. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Sep 23, 2020
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| 28% | Antebellum (2020) |
Antebellum is a mind-boggling waste of creative talent. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Sep 23, 2020
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| 90% | Enola Holmes (2020) |
An immensely fun caper comedy. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Sep 23, 2020
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| 79% | I Am Greta (2020) |
I Am Greta humanizes Greta Thunberg as her international profile grows so big, she seems more symbol than person. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Sep 17, 2020
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| 77% | Shadow in the Cloud (2021) |
Shadow in the Cloud strands talented performers in an increasingly silly plot. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Sep 17, 2020
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| 93% | I Care a Lot (2020) |
I Care a Lot is the kind of savage black comedy that comes along once in a great while and entertains as much as it enrages. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Sep 17, 2020
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| 75% | Pieces of a Woman (2020) |
Pieces of a Woman collapses under its own weight, stranding Vanessa Kirby's performance in a sea of overwrought camera moves. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Sep 15, 2020
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| 98% | One Night in Miami (2020) |
One Night in Miami is a historical drama that breathes with life and vivacity... - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Sep 15, 2020
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| 96% | Nomadland (2020) |
Chloe Zhao continues to paint moving, melancholy portraits of the modern American West and the people who inhabit it. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Sep 15, 2020
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| 76% | Concrete Cowboy (2020) |
Though it treads familiar coming-of-age ground, the spectacle of the urban horseman is enough to make Concrete Cowboy feel fresh, and the solid cast keeps it afloat. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Sep 15, 2020
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| 78% | The Broken Hearts Gallery (2020) |
The Broken Hearts Gallery is for anyone who has missed classic rom-coms with their contrivances and chemistry, featuring yet another spectacular performance from Geraldine Viswanathan. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Sep 15, 2020
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| 73% | Mulan (2020) |
Mulan is an auspicious blend of battle epic and fairy tale that ought to inspire a new generation of would-be warriors. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Sep 5, 2020
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| 81% | I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020) |
This film will confound and infuriate you, but it will also stick with you for a while. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Sep 5, 2020
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| 84% | Lingua Franca (2020) |
Lingua Franca is painfully realist, and the ending is suitably realistic, with no easy answers or assurances of safety. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Sep 1, 2020
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| 82% | Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020) |
Sure to please fans of the original movies, Bill and Ted Face the Music is a bonkers adventure with a big, beating heart of sweetness and warmth. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Aug 31, 2020
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| 61% | Project Power (2020) |
The untapped potential of Project Power is a little frustrating, but the combined efforts of Jamie Foxx, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Dominque Fishback at least make it watchable. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Aug 25, 2020
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| 59% | Tesla (2020) |
As much as Almereyda tries to do justice to such an extraordinary mind, he ultimately still frames Tesla within pedestrian concerns like his business interests and the question of why he never married. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Aug 25, 2020
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| 83% | She Dies Tomorrow (2020) |
She Dies Tomorrow perfectly captures the dreamy sameness of self-isolation, while at others it typifies the horror of being surrounded by mass death. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Aug 12, 2020
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| 80% | The Old Guard (2020) |
The Old Guard is a decidedly grown up superhero movie. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Jul 19, 2020
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| 94% | Palm Springs (2020) |
The wacky existential rom-com we need in 2020. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Jul 19, 2020
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| 64% | Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga (2020) |
Fire Saga is perfectly enjoyable, and a much-needed dose of unrestrained joy - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Jul 2, 2020
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| 92% | Da 5 Bloods (2020) |
As a character study of the long-term effects of PTSD, guilt, and trauma, Da 5 Bloods is a rich and lively work. As a commentary on the Vietnam War, American race relations, and the entwining of the two, it is sharp and devastating. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Jun 22, 2020
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| 92% | Hannah Gadsby: Douglas (2020) |
Renaissance art plays a significant role in Douglas, proof that the Renaissance was unintentionally hilarious, and that Gadsby's closest companion on the comedy shelf is Eddie Izzard. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted May 28, 2020
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| 66% | The Lovebirds (2020) |
A nice enough movie to while away an afternoon, but it is only notable for the combined star wattage of Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted May 25, 2020
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| 67% | Extraction (2020) |
A solid, B-grade action thriller. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Apr 30, 2020
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| 91% | The Invisible Man (2020) |
The Invisible Man is a smart, lo-fi approach to a classic movie monster that tells a gripping, timely story. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Mar 23, 2020
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| 29% | Bloodshot (2020) |
The only bright spot in this movie is Lamorne Morris. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Mar 23, 2020
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