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Deborah Krieger

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Biography:

Deborah Krieger is an arts and culture writer with bylines in BUST Magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Paste Magazine, PopMatters, Artillery Magazine, the Awl, the Mary Sue, and numerous other publications. She is the curatorial assistant at the Delaware Art Museum and was the recipient of a Fulbright grant to Vienna, Austria, from 2016-17.

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
The Sunlit Night (2019) 31% EDIT “It does feature an appealing lead performance from Slate, and is earnest and honest in its largely successful attempt to translate creative thinking onto the screen in equally creative ways.” – Bust Magazine Jul 2, 2021 Full Review African Violet (2020) 100% EDIT “African Violet tangles these three tight and tense knots of characters together in ways that reveal the lengths to which we all perform different roles in different areas of life-and are different versions of ourselves around different people.” – MovieJawn Aug 20, 2020 Full Review Cunningham (2019) 89% EDIT “There's a curious disconnect between these roundabout ways we learn about Merce Cunningham, the man, and the development of his idiosyncratic dance and choreography techniques, and the fluidity with which the actual restagings of his works are presented.” – MovieJawn Jan 3, 2020 Full Review Pause (2018) 100% EDIT “Pause is not an easy or a pleasant film to watch, but it does have individual moments and sequences that are simply transfixing, as well as a strong, well-defined painterly aesthetic.” – Bust Magazine Sep 27, 2019 Full Review The Art of Self-Defense (2019) 83% EDIT “The Art of Self-Defense pulls no punches.” – Bust Magazine Aug 15, 2019 Full Review Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) 68% EDIT “It's just these little touches of maximum effort (oops, wrong Ryan Reynolds movie!) that make Detective Pikachu as strong as it is-that, and, of course, Ryan Reynolds' energetic, generous voice acting.” – MovieJawn Jul 22, 2019 Full Review Red Joan (2018) 30% EDIT “Red Joan itself is reportedly based on the story of Melita Norwood, who passed the Soviets' information on the West's nuclear development. Sadly, Norwood's Wikipedia page is more of a thrilling yarn than most of Red Joan.” – Bust Magazine Jun 28, 2019 Full Review Us, Forever Ago (2018) EDIT “What's unsettling and fascinating about Us, Forever Ago, is that at no point can you be entirely sure that you're watching anything documentary.” – MovieJawn Jun 21, 2019 Full Review Diane (2018) 93% EDIT “Kent Jones, primarily known as a film critic, clearly understands what makes a good story and how best to tell it. There's not a false note in the movie, a point where you might think: "oh, no one actually would say that."” – Bust Magazine May 9, 2019 Full Review The Chaperone (2018) 48% EDIT “The Chaperone is produced by PBS Masterpiece and is being shown in theaters, but it feels more suited to television. The budget is clearly lower for things like wigs and backdrops and old-age makeup to the extent that it's noticeable.” – MovieJawn May 1, 2019 Full Review Starfish (2018) 89% EDIT “Starfish was written, directed, and scored by A. T. White, primarily a musician by trade, and it's completely fitting in how it uses sound to fully evoke the horror elements of the story.” – Bust Magazine Apr 19, 2019 Full Review The Invisibles (2017) 71% EDIT “The Invisibles, sadly, comes across as extremely didactic, as if it is inherently unsure of why so much of the movie is reenacted by professional actors.” – MovieJawn Mar 26, 2019 Full Review Ruben Brandt, Collector (2018) 82% EDIT “Ruben Brandt is suffering in a truly isolating way: these culturally ubiquitous objects of art that have so much beauty and meaning for everyone else have been causing him psychic and even real physical pain, and nothing he does seems to help.” – MovieJawn Mar 4, 2019 Full Review Thin (2006) 100% EDIT “What I found interesting while watching the film is that no attention is paid to aspects of aspects of society, especially in the United States, that could very well have played a part in these women and girl developing such severe eating disorders.” – I on the Arts Mar 3, 2019 Full Review Nancy (2018) 86% EDIT “Riseborough, so appealing in Battle of the Sexes and amusingly histrionic in The Death of Stalin, is astonishing in the lead role.” – Bust Magazine Feb 11, 2019 Full Review A Boy Called Sailboat (2018) 80% EDIT “A Boy Called Sailboat is an astonishingly assured debut narrative film, managing to be heartwarming but not overly cloying, visually striking without seeming like a formal exercise, thoughtful but probably not too complicated for kids to understand.” – MovieJawn Jan 31, 2019 Full Review Social Animals (2018) 88% EDIT “Social Animals focuses exclusively on how American teenagers use Instagram, almost serving as a fact-based mirror of Bo Burnham's gentle, wickedly honest Eighth Grade .” – Filthy Dreams Jan 22, 2019 Full Review The New Romantic (2018) 63% EDIT “The New Romantic (the debut feature of writer-director Carly Stone) is too slight, both in terms of theme and general characterization, to match up to Barden's performance (which will probably not get the attention it deserves).” – Bust Magazine Jan 3, 2019 Full Review The Waldheim Waltz (2018) 100% EDIT “The Waldheim Waltz functions as both an invaluable look at a protest movement fighting against a right-wing political insurgency, and also a call to action, creating a sense of righteous fury and a desire to prevent another Waldheim affair.” – Jewish Currents Dec 25, 2018 Full Review On the Basis of Sex (2018) 72% EDIT “I just wish that the movie had taken a more unconventional approach to the story of this still-unconventional woman.” – MovieJawn Dec 22, 2018 Full Review The Conspirator (2010) 56% EDIT “Although the "guilty" verdict is already a foregone conclusion, under the sure, steady direction of Robert Redford[...]the film builds suspense and allows the watcher to hope against hope that somehow the verdict will return as "not guilty".” – I on the Arts Dec 14, 2018 Full Review Jobs (2013) 27% EDIT “This dichotomy between what the film insists is Jobs at his best, and what we the audience see as Jobs at his arguable worst undermines the overall message and what we are supposed to take away from the movie.” – I on the Arts Dec 14, 2018 Full Review The American Meme (2018) 92% EDIT “Unpacks and reveals the ecosystem of social media celebrity with incredible thoughtfulness.” – Bust Magazine Dec 13, 2018 Full Review Maria by Callas: In Her Own Words (2017) 91% EDIT “It's a movie that is perhaps best watched with a biography of Callas open on your lap, or with the Wikipedia entry on her life open in a separate window.” – MovieJawn Dec 4, 2018 Full Review Brand New Old Love (2018) EDIT “While Brand New Old Love is ostensibly a romantic comedy about two friends who fulfill their high-school pledge to marry each other by age thirty, it's also an honest, unglamorous exploration of what it means to be an adult in the 2010s.” – Bust Magazine Nov 15, 2018 Full Review
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