Sarah Marrs
Tomatometer-approved critic
Publications:
Decider,
Lainey Gossip,
Cinesnark
Movie Reviews Only
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| 94% | I'm Your Man (2021) |
I'm Your Man is most interested in how we relate to one another and what love is in an increasingly data-driven, artificial world - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Sep 17, 2021
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| 100% | You Are Not My Mother (2021) |
Kate Dolan has fashioned a creepy, increasingly disturbing domestic horror anchored by terrific performances from Hazel Doupe and Carolyn Bracken. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Sep 17, 2021
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| 80% | Violet (2020) |
A frank portrait of feminine anxiety. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Sep 16, 2021
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| 67% | The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021) |
A run of the mill biopic with some great acting and spectacular makeup and prosthetics - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Sep 16, 2021
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| 69% | The Guilty (2021) |
It's only 90 minutes long. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Sep 16, 2021
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| 83% | The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021) |
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain is another great Benedict Cumberbatch performance for the books, but it offers little more than an interesting art history lesson. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Sep 16, 2021
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| 91% | The Power of the Dog (2021) |
This is not a sexy film of repressed longing, it's more like fancy emotional torture porn for the literary crowd. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Sep 13, 2021
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| 98% | Petite Maman (2021) |
Perhaps we can never truly know our parents, but Petite Maman allows us to imagine a mother as a playmate, not just a progenitor. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Sep 13, 2021
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| 92% | Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings (2021) |
Shang-Chi is the best of the Marvel origin stories yet. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Sep 5, 2021
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| 84% | Candyman (2021) |
The ideas are there-the continuity of violence, art and commercialism and exploitation, gentrification and haunting-but it doesn't go anywhere. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Aug 30, 2021
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| 88% | The Green Knight (2021) |
What Lowery does in The Green Knight is make time tangible, anchoring this legend in a modern context. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Aug 19, 2021
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| 91% | The Suicide Squad (2021) |
The Suicide Squad is fun and funny, though the over-the-top violence won't appeal to everyone. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Aug 13, 2021
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| 80% | Free Guy (2021) |
Free Guy is free-wheeling and irreverent, a mash-up of game and movie references and jokes, and it has a surprisingly genuine heart of gold. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Aug 13, 2021
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| 62% | Jungle Cruise (2021) |
It's hard to make colonization a cheery good time, but Jungle Cruise tries. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Aug 5, 2021
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| 52% | The Tomorrow War (2021) |
The Tomorrow War desperately wants to be Independence Day for the 21st century, but it so fundamentally misunderstands the assignment that it's missed the science fair altogether. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Jul 8, 2021
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| 88% | Zola (2021) |
Zola is stylish, sleazy, entertaining as hell, but also a sharp look at the intersection of toxic friendships and racism. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Jul 8, 2021
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| 79% | Black Widow (2021) |
A throwback to the beginnings of the MCU when Marvel movies were a little simpler, a little more stripped down, and focused a wee bit more on character interactions than shoving 900 units of plot in our faces. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Jul 8, 2021
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| 59% | F9 (2021) |
F9 is both the best and worst of what the Fast Saga has become. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Jun 28, 2021
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| 27% | The Hitman's Wife's Bodyguard (2021) |
This movie is an empty vessel. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Jun 15, 2021
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| 74% | Cruella (2021) |
Cruella does what all bad prequels do, answering questions no one is asking. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Jun 14, 2021
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| 91% | A Quiet Place Part II (2021) |
A Quiet Place Part II is still an effectively tense, scary sci-fi/horror mash-up, and, as theaters are reopening, a great film to experience with a crowd. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Jun 14, 2021
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| 62% | Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021) |
Not up to Taylor Sheridan's usual level, but a sufficient, bare-bones thriller unto itself. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Jun 14, 2021
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| 49% | Coming 2 America (2021) |
While I like seeing Eddie Murphy back on screen, Coming 2 America is just so misguided it's impossible to enjoy. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted May 12, 2021
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| 71% | Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) |
While Zack Snyder's Justice League is unquestionably better than what came before, it is still, ultimately, the same movie we've already seen. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted May 12, 2021
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| 75% | Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) |
While it makes no sense, there is something very satisfying about watching King Kong punch Godzilla square in the face. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted May 12, 2021
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| 56% | The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021) |
As is often the case with Lee Daniels' films, this is the kind of film where characters do not talk like real human beings, but Andra Day makes it work anyway. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Mar 4, 2021
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| 75% | The Mauritanian (2021) |
The Mauritanian is fine, with a stand-out performance from Tahar Rahim. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Mar 4, 2021
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| 94% | Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) |
Raya and the Last Dragon transcends formulaic storytelling with its heart and eye-popping visuals. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Mar 4, 2021
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| 45% | The Little Things (2021) |
For all of its pedigree and effort, it's actually impressive how dull The Little Things is. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Feb 18, 2021
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| 57% | Malcolm & Marie (2021) |
Malcolm & Marie is the world's most expensive Airbnb ad slash ad for Kraft Mac'n'Cheese. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Feb 18, 2021
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| 98% | Minari (2020) |
Minari does not offer pat resolutions or simple homilies about the importance of family. It does, however, have a deep well of compassion for the Yis, and the countless immigrant families they represent. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Feb 18, 2021
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| 96% | Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) |
Judas and the Black Messiah is a good introduction, but much as in real life, it ends before Fred Hampton can accomplish much more than just showing up. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Feb 18, 2021
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| 70% | Land (2021) |
Land is an effective film, emotionally resonant without pushing manipulative buttons, a spare but beautiful meditation on grief and companionship. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Feb 18, 2021
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| 80% | Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021) |
A kitsch-skewering, pastel-colored, friendship-celebrating absurdist parody, and an instant comedy classic. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Feb 18, 2021
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| 63% | French Exit (2021) |
French Exit isn't a pleasure to watch, even with Michelle Pfeiffer doing her thing. - Lainey Gossip
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| Posted Feb 18, 2021
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| 59% | 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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| 50% | 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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| 88% | 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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| 90% | 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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| 54% | 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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| 91% | 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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| 54% | 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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| 79% | 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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