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Blake Williams

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Joan of Arc (2019) 57% EDIT “Jeanne is the wiser, raspier relative to the spry and turbulent Jeannette...Dumont teaches us how to experience this quite verbose film: attendant to song, glances, visual patterns, and the animated body above all else.” – Cinema Scope Jul 15, 2019 Full Review Our Time (2018) 62% EDIT “There's an uneasiness in the film, and it stems from the follow-through-that return to innocence and purity that reinstates the divine. And this may be a matter of length.” – Cinema Scope Jan 25, 2019 Full Review Mrs. Hyde (2017) 61% EDIT “In addition to often being quite funny, Serge Bozon's fifth feature and second consecutive Isabelle Huppert vehicle is an exemplary film about pedagogy...” – Cinema Scope Feb 21, 2018 Full Review Spring Breakers (2012) 67% EDIT “... Spring Breakers should nevertheless be lauded as a boldly superficial film, one that understands the pertinence of an alluring image, and the consequences of valuing only that.” – Cinema Scope Nov 18, 2017 Full Review You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (2012) 85% EDIT “... there was a wholly unwarranted air of the posthumous about You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet, which is as eccentric and alive as its immediate predecessor.” – Cinema Scope Nov 18, 2017 Full Review The Art of the Steal (2013) 46% EDIT “By all means this is a B-movie, topped up with cheap has-beens...” – Cinema Scope Nov 18, 2017 Full Review Burning Bush (2014) 96% EDIT “... inert and has no sense of flow, and this despite the wavy dramatic effect caused by the three-part scrunching.” – Cinema Scope Nov 18, 2017 Full Review Gerontophilia (2013) 50% EDIT “The tears are false, the performance is hammy, it's all rather ridiculous, but it still hurts a little, and then you remember what makes [director Bruce] LaBruce so special.” – Cinema Scope Nov 18, 2017 Full Review Under the Skin (2013) 83% EDIT “What was originally a bonkers and sententious parable about class, labour, and the horrors of the meat industry-run by a race of talking antelope-like beings from another planet-is now essentially an abstract coming-of-age picture.” – Cinema Scope Nov 18, 2017 Full Review Gabrielle (2013) 88% EDIT “Not to drown out the sizeable praise this got from Locarno audiences with pedantic political correctness, but there comes a point when the tastelessness from one's production methods overwhelms any goodwill one's film might otherwise have earned.” – Cinema Scope Nov 18, 2017 Full Review Jealousy (2013) 73% EDIT “A lifetime compressed into a simple yet evocative sweet nothing-that's really all it takes.” – Cinema Scope Nov 18, 2017 Full Review Goodbye to Language (2014) 88% EDIT “Evenly distributed throughout Adieu's duration, Godard inserts one coup de cinéma after another...” – Cinema Scope Nov 18, 2017 Full Review Wild Tales (2014) 94% EDIT “... even the more successful bits exhibit the kind of myopia that renders so many short films into mere one-liners.” – Cinema Scope Nov 18, 2017 Full Review Run (2014) EDIT “... a lucid and weirdly fashionable political drama...” – Cinema Scope Nov 18, 2017 Full Review Inherent Vice (2014) 73% EDIT “... cinema being the audiovisual medium that it is, we can't expect the literary adaptation to provide the same kind of syntactic energy that we'd find in its source text.” – Cinema Scope Nov 18, 2017 Full Review The Search (2014) 20% EDIT “The Search is what happens when winning awards supersedes making cinema.” – Cinema Scope Nov 18, 2017 Full Review Leviathan (2014) 97% EDIT “The dumbest thing about Andrey Zvyagintsev's new snoozer, Leviathan, is his commitment to that title.” – Cinema Scope Nov 18, 2017 Full Review Red Army (2014) 92% EDIT “It's topical journalism for its own sake, a narrative waiting for someone to report it again...” – Cinema Scope Nov 18, 2017 Full Review Alléluia (2014) 83% EDIT “... its conflation of the ridiculous with the sublime is this neo-extremist's most admirable and stirring manoeuvre to date.” – Cinema Scope Nov 18, 2017 Full Review The Witch (2015) 91% EDIT “That the film climaxes with an inexplicable change of heart for a major character (or was it a reveal? It's impossible to tell for sure) suggests that Eggers may have taken from one too many sources to patch this thing together.” – Cinema Scope Nov 18, 2017 Full Review Love (2015) 42% EDIT “This film is, indeed, absolutely moronic.” – Cinema Scope Nov 18, 2017 Full Review James White (2015) 92% EDIT “Humble and unpretentious, James White is a frank portrayal of a young man (Christopher Abbott) who, shortly after his estranged father dies, learns that his mother's (Cynthia Nixon) cancer has returned with a vengeance.” – Cinema Scope Nov 18, 2017 Full Review Disorder (2015) 73% EDIT “... unnerving take on the home-invasion picture...” – Cinema Scope Nov 18, 2017 Full Review Embrace of the Serpent (2015) 97% EDIT “These are but reaching gestures from an artist who is willing yet unable to present to the world an original idea.” – Cinema Scope Nov 18, 2017 Full Review Blood of My Blood (2015) 75% EDIT “... a beguiling, Dionysian piece of filmmaking that may represent something of a breakthrough in the Italian old hand's decades-long project of evoking an unconscious, spiritual uncanny from out of a material, decreasingly Catholic world.” – Cinema Scope Nov 18, 2017 Full Review
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