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Caroline Framke

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Jerrod Carmichael: Rothaniel (2022) 100% EDIT “It’s hard to describe how well he does this without just writing out his set, which is pointed, quiet, hilarious, and heartbreaking all at once.” – Variety Apr 6, 2022 Full Review Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts (2022) 93% EDIT “Return to Hogwarts manages to unearth enough genuine sincerity, and occasionally even jolts of pathos, to keep from becoming quite as sticky sweet as one of Harry's treacle tarts.” – Variety Dec 31, 2021 Full Review Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: Kimmy vs. the Reverend (2020) 94% EDIT “With "Kimmy vs The Reverend," the show reinvigorates itself by finding more compelling ways to indulge its own rhythms and aesthetic.” – Variety Aug 9, 2021 Full Review Friends: The Reunion (2021) 67% EDIT “"Friends: The Reunion" isn't trying to be revealing, at least not about anything that thorny or unpleasant. It's here to entertain, and to remind fans why they love the show” – Variety May 26, 2021 Full Review Elizabeth is Missing (2019) 93% EDIT “Jackson is tremendous -- the walking embodiment of a desperate snarl. For as solid as the film's production is, it's hard to imagine Elizabeth Is Missing hanging together without an actor as ferociously good as Jackson anchoring it.” – Variety Jan 4, 2021 Full Review Between the World and Me (2020) 95% EDIT “Directed by Kamilah Forbes of New York City's Apollo Theater, with archival montages and gorgeous cinematography by Bradford Young, this visual version of Between the World and Me is as dense and vast as the book that inspired it.” – Variety Nov 18, 2020 Full Review Coastal Elites (2020) 57% EDIT “Some viewers may find catharsis in its unabashed anger at the world today; others may realize they can find the same material on the Twitter timelines of their snarky local #resist enthusiasts and cable pundits for free.” – Variety Sep 1, 2020 Full Review The Weight of Gold (2020) 94% EDIT “This documentary wants to show civilians that Olympians aren't nearly as impervious as their otherworldly skill might convey. On that count, it succeeds.” – Variety Jul 30, 2020 Full Review Steven Universe: The Movie (2019) 100% EDIT “Steven Universe: The Movie is as much an ode to the value of growing and changing as it is a celebration of the series.” – Variety Aug 28, 2019 Full Review EDIT “Haddish unleashes hilarious, filthy, and even moving anecdotes to tell the story of her life to this point, without anything holding her back, at long last.” – Vox Aug 7, 2019 Full Review Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted (2015) 100% EDIT “Where "Live" saw Notaro reeling from a bruise, Boyish Girl Interrupted celebrates the healing. Notaro found a way to build upon her previous set without dismissing it entirely, and her joy at cracking that code radiates from every punchline.” – Vox Aug 2, 2019 Full Review Aziz Ansari: Right Now (2019) 84% EDIT “Complaining about "wokeness" could easily come off as out of touch and cranky, but Ansari largely avoids that trap by cracking slyly scathing jokes.” – Variety Jul 10, 2019 Full Review Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons' (2019) 88% EDIT “The experiment worked. With meticulous attention to set detail and wig shapes, ABC's live staging of "Henry's Farewell" and "A Friend in Need" managed to feel both like an artifact of a nostalgic past and the urgent present.” – Variety May 23, 2019 Full Review Practical Magic (1998) 27% EDIT “However many stories the movie tries to tackle from Alice Hoffman's original novel, the moments that have lived beyond Practical Magic's expected expiration date celebrate sisterhood with a fierce heart and love that blazes across cities.” – Vox Mar 30, 2019 Full Review Rent Live (2019) 27% EDIT “Outside the dress rehearsal disaster, one of the weirder side effects of "Rent" airing on Fox is that "Rent" could never be itself on Fox.” – Variety Jan 29, 2019 Full Review The Tale (2018) 99% EDIT “Fox's directing and script are so purposeful and direct that it can be very hard to watch "The Tale" without having to look away.” – Variety May 24, 2018 Full Review Jesus Christ Superstar Live in Concert (2018) 100% EDIT “This version of Jesus Christ Superstar was a pulsing adrenaline rush that felt like a fizzed-up energy drink to the face.” – Vox Apr 2, 2018 Full Review Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016) 74% 2.5/5 EDIT “Every time Fantastic Beasts has to move the story forward, it stumbles along like a restless kid dragging herself to school when all she wants to do is play with her coloring books.” – Vox Nov 17, 2016 Full Review The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Let's Do the Time Warp Again (2016) 29% 1.5/5 EDIT “Unfortunately, Fox's version of Rocky Horror is a hesitant mashup of the stage and film versions that somehow manages to extinguish the spark of both.” – Vox Oct 21, 2016 Full Review Mascots (2016) 48% EDIT “As a whole, though, Mascots only occasionally rises above "pretty okay." Guest's actors...commit to the material, but the improv isn't as consistently sharp... as it was in A Mighty Wind or Best in Show, and the movie ends up lagging because of it.” – Vox Oct 13, 2016 Full Review Ghostbusters (2016) 74% 3/5 EDIT “When the movie is at its best, it's scrappy, eager to please, and -- thanks to some superb comedic acting -- deliciously strange.” – Vox Jul 10, 2016 Full Review Finding Dory (2016) 94% 4.5/5 EDIT “Finding Dory [is] a powerful story of loss and, eventually, improbable triumph.” – Vox Jun 16, 2016 Full Review Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016) 79% 3.5/5 EDIT “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping just might be the dumbest movie of the summer -- which, in spite of how it sounds, is an absolute compliment.” – Vox Jun 3, 2016 Full Review Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016) 65% 4/5 EDIT “I went into Neighbors 2 tentatively excited, and came out grinning my face off.” – Vox May 20, 2016 Full Review Grease: Live! (2016) 92% EDIT “If Grease Live had more moments to work with like "There Are Worse Things I Could Do," it might have been truly special - but there was only so much it could do when the musical itself didn't have anything else to give.” – Vox Feb 2, 2016 Full Review
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