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Ed Frankl

Ed Frankl's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Thunder (2022) 100% B+ EDIT “Thunder proves a rich and moving story about faith and the power that individual responses to it can provoke.” – The Film Stage Oct 30, 2023 Full Review Io Capitano (2023) 96% B EDIT “Steered by Sarr in a spellbinding performance, this is a mesmerizing watch for the most part, running the gamut of positive idealism at the film’s opening to clinging on to the vestiges of hope at the finale. ” – The Film Stage Sep 28, 2023 Full Review Where Is Anne Frank (2021) 76% C EDIT “Although led with good intentions, it is a film laden with heavy-handed storytelling and a tendency to didacticism that would make Brecht blush.” – The Film Stage Jul 19, 2021 Full Review Cow (2021) 96% B EDIT “Despite a lo-fi, handheld-camera cragginess, [Cow] still has something of the lyricism that marks so much of her work, going back to the Oscar-winning short Wasp.” – The Film Stage Jul 19, 2021 Full Review Port Authority (2019) 83% B EDIT “A deceptively simple romance doesn't take away that there is something quietly radical at work in the New York love story Port Authority, set in the underground Kiki ballroom dance community.” – The Film Stage Jun 2, 2021 Full Review For Lucio (2021) 100% B EDIT “The director of 2019's critically acclaimed Martin Eden returns with For Lucio, a slim, charming documentary about one of Italy's premier post-war crooners.” – The Film Stage Mar 17, 2021 Full Review I'm Your Man (2021) 95% B EDIT “The role Dan Stevens was born to play, perfectly suiting his nerdy, slightly creepy poshness developed from his turn on Downton Abbey.” – The Film Stage Mar 17, 2021 Full Review Drift Away (2021) 64% B- EDIT “Xavier Beauvois has made a film that contemplates trauma of one's own making, a perceptive work that grapples with guilt and grief.” – The Film Stage Mar 17, 2021 Full Review Ballad of a White Cow (2021) 89% B+ EDIT “Ballad of a White Cow captures how any semblance of innocence is the first thing shattered in such a repressive regime.” – The Film Stage Mar 17, 2021 Full Review There Is No Evil (2020) 98% A- EDIT “Not since A Short Film About Killing has a filmmaker produced such a thrilling case against capital punishment, an enraging, enthralling, enduring testament to the oppressed.” – The Film Stage Feb 29, 2020 Full Review Last and First Men (2020) 100% B+ EDIT “This is Jóhannsson's first and last film, and its hard not to recognize that this is a director who arrived fully formed as a visual artist.” – The Film Stage Feb 28, 2020 Full Review My Little Sister (2020) 94% B EDIT “It's a film that carries emotional power more in its moments of natural reflexiveness than the weepie genre's more conventional emotional beats, anchored by two focused lead performances that thankfully don't succumb to melodrama.” – The Film Stage Feb 26, 2020 Full Review The Aeronauts (2019) 72% B- EDIT “This is a movie about breaking through invisible glass ceilings, headed by a go-getting young woman following her own pursuits, in a crowd-pleasing yarn headed by a role model for children to look up to.” – The Film Stage Dec 6, 2019 Full Review Sorry We Missed You (2019) 88% A- EDIT “Sorry We Missed You is, simply, one of [Ken Loach's] best films that links the personal and the political.” – The Film Stage Sep 21, 2019 Full Review Sibyl (2019) 57% C+ EDIT “As a metaphor for artistic invention, it's an interesting, but unsuccessful one.” – The Film Stage Sep 21, 2019 Full Review An Easy Girl (2019) 95% B EDIT “This is a straightforward coming-of-age story from France, a country for whom this is almost a national cliché, but elevated by a key eye for gender roles of its protagonists and an up-to-date message for a teenage generation growing up in a #MeToo world.” – The Film Stage Sep 21, 2019 Full Review I Was at Home, But (2019) 88% B EDIT “A film whose aesthetics may be intensely controlled and yet whose narrative is sprawling with meanings and readings.” – The Film Stage Sep 21, 2019 Full Review Synonymes (2018) 87% B+ EDIT “As an exercise in depicting the disjointed link between national and personal identity, Synonyms is dazzling. As a portrait of displacement in a world becoming both more globalized and more nationalistic, it is a testament.” – The Film Stage Sep 21, 2019 Full Review Pain and Glory (2019) 96% A- EDIT “This is perhaps the director's most outstanding work since his peerless fin-de-siècle diptych of Talk to Her and All About My Mother.” – The Film Stage Sep 21, 2019 Full Review The Operative (2019) 41% C+ EDIT “As the film crawls towards its conclusion, there's not much of a sense of righteous anger in Rachel at her Israeli masters after she believes she's been used. Audiences will rightly feel they have been used too.” – The Film Stage Aug 1, 2019 Full Review Little Joe (2019) 67% C+ EDIT “It promises a crossbreed of shrewd science fiction and health care satire, but it scuppers its genre creds in exchange for a sterile arthouse drama that rather muddles its conceit.” – The Film Stage May 21, 2019 Full Review A War (2015) 90% 5/5 EDIT “Lindholm's film is one of the best movies about recent Western interventions into the Middle East, and a great post-9/11 war movie in its own right.” – CineVue Apr 8, 2019 Full Review In the Courtyard (2014) 71% 3/5 EDIT “The dark heart of Dans la Cour makes its comedy ever more piquant, while Deneuve and Kervern are exceptional as two lonely souls finding solace in each other's company during the twilight years of their lives.” – CineVue Apr 8, 2019 Full Review Gemma Bovery (2014) 54% 2/5 EDIT “It feels more that Gemma Bovery goes through the motions of the novel, restricted by its own pretensions to meet high-brow literature.” – CineVue Apr 6, 2019 Full Review Mr. Holmes (2015) 88% 3/5 EDIT “McKellen, delivering his inimitable drawl, is inevitably the star attraction here. He doesn't have to speak to have his presence felt, he can frown and find audiences laughing, and Jeffrey Hatcher's script sparkles in his hands.” – CineVue Apr 5, 2019 Full Review
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