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Andrew Barker

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Federer: Twelve Final Days (2024) 56% EDIT “For fans, this handsomely-mounted film’s level of access will be enticement enough, and its emotional peaks are undeniably stirring. But its limited scope and curious demureness prevent it from offering the full-scale portrait that... Federer deserves.” – Variety Jun 20, 2024 Full Review Jamojaya (2023) 79% EDIT ““Jamojaya” is elevated above its familiar narrative paces by sensitive camerawork and a pair of intriguing performances, and its suggestion that showbusiness ambitions and family ties don’t so much collide as unravel on parallel tracks.” – Variety Jan 23, 2023 Full Review On the Come Up (2022) 76% EDIT “As frank and tough-minded and as it is warm and sweet, “On the Come Up” is a hugely promising debut from the actor-turned-director.” – Variety Sep 9, 2022 Full Review Pinocchio (2022) 27% EDIT “As with so many of the director’s previous CGI extravaganzas, all the meticulous surface detail in the world can’t compensate for the core emptiness of the film’s digital creations.” – Variety Sep 8, 2022 Full Review 808 (2015) 100% EDIT “A consistently entertaining, instructive look at the unlikely heartbeat behind so much of the past three decades’ standout pop music.” – Variety Jun 2, 2022 Full Review Cypress Hill: Insane in the Brain (2022) EDIT “A deeper look through the smoke clouds on the surface reveals much more than meets the eye.” – Variety Apr 24, 2022 Full Review Umma (2022) 32% EDIT “Shim handles the film’s grab bag of individual jump scares and creepy sight gags well, but without conveying much tangible sense of overall peril or threat, these scenes start to feel almost academic.” – Variety Mar 18, 2022 Full Review Meet Me in the Bathroom (2022) 74% EDIT “If it's sometimes a little rough around the edges and not always structurally coherent, well, the same was true of these bands.” – Variety Jan 24, 2022 Full Review Malignant (2021) 77% EDIT “It's hard to say whether a film this bonkers "works" or not, but it's impossible not to admire both the craft and the extravagant bad taste behind its go-for-broke energy.” – Variety Sep 10, 2021 Full Review All the Streets Are Silent: The Convergence of Hip Hop and Skateboarding (1987-1997) (2021) 90% EDIT “Vividly recalling the collision of two young cultures on the streets of New York City, Jeremy Elkin's documentary sometimes struggles to figure out what it all meant.” – Variety Jul 31, 2021 Full Review Great White (2021) 44% EDIT “The film's human characters make for drab company, leaving one with little to do but admire the scenery, waiting for dinnertime.” – Variety Jul 16, 2021 Full Review The Boss Baby: Family Business (2021) 46% EDIT “Well, they made a sequel to "The Boss Baby."” – Variety Jun 30, 2021 Full Review Bliss (2021) 27% EDIT “Little more than a listless "Matrix" retread, minus the spectacle and the suspense.” – Variety Feb 2, 2021 Full Review Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions (2020) 100% EDIT “With this film, she just does the two things she does best: making excellent music, and giving people a new reason to talk about Taylor Swift. But at least she's made sure that this time we're talking about her for all the right reasons.” – Variety Nov 27, 2020 Full Review All Together Now (2020) 70% EDIT “"All Together Now" has plenty to say about community, altruism and the limits of self-reliance that could strike a chord in such stark times.” – Variety Aug 26, 2020 Full Review The 24th (2020) 79% EDIT “"The 24th" can at times be cumbersomely didactic and formulaic, but it finds plenty of contemporary relevance in a story that should be far more widely known than it is.” – Variety Aug 20, 2020 Full Review All I Can Say (2019) 83% EDIT “[I]t does offer an intriguing peak at overnight success as it's lived minute-to-minute, as well as providing a reminder that Millennial YouTubers were hardly the first generational cohort to document their every waking moment with a video camera.” – Variety Jul 1, 2020 Full Review Le choc du futur (2019) 80% EDIT “For those who couldn't tell you the difference between a Mellotron and a Mu-Tron, this amiably aimless film may prove patience-testing with its languid narrative rhythms, thinly sketched characters and on-the-nose electro evangelism.” – Variety May 2, 2020 Full Review EMMA. (2020) 86% EDIT “de Wilde is smart enough to trust her source material where it counts.” – Variety Feb 3, 2020 Full Review Gretel & Hansel (2020) 63% EDIT “And for all of the care that went into its look and its sound, the world of the film never feels more than halfway formed; in the rush to tie up its narrative loose ends, it leaves its more intriguing thematic ones hanging.” – Variety Jan 30, 2020 Full Review Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020) 99% EDIT “At once dreamlike and ruthlessly naturalistic, steadily composed yet shot through with roiling currents of anxiety, "Never Rarely Sometimes Always" is a quietly devastating gem.” – Variety Jan 25, 2020 Full Review Troop Zero (2019) 69% EDIT “A movie that's content to make do with whatever spare parts are lying around, and eventually does so more successfully than one might expect.” – Variety Jan 17, 2020 Full Review EDIT “While it never quite reaches Jack T. Ripper levels of absurdity, Water nonetheless drowns out its science with hazy spirituality and utterly preposterous claims. In the end, it all smells fishy.” – Variety Dec 13, 2019 Full Review Cyrano, My Love (2018) 80% EDIT “"Cyrano, My Love" attempts to give the "Shakespeare in Love" treatment to the timeless French play "Cyrano de Bergerac," with shamelessly derivative yet undeniably entertaining results.” – Variety Oct 18, 2019 Full Review Dirt Music (2019) 27% EDIT “"Dirt Music" is a fine-looking romance that never finds the right key.” – Variety Sep 9, 2019 Full Review
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