Ed Frankl
Ed Frankl's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
The Film Stage
Movies reviews only
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Where Is Anne Frank (2021) |
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
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| Posted Jul 19, 2021
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Cow (2021) |
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
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| Posted Jul 19, 2021
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Port Authority (2019) |
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
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| Posted Jun 02, 2021
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For Lucio (2021) |
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
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| Posted Mar 17, 2021
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I'm Your Man (2021) |
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
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| Posted Mar 17, 2021
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Drift Away (2021) |
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
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| Posted Mar 17, 2021
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Ballad of a White Cow (2021) |
Ballad of a White Cow captures how any semblance of innocence is the first thing shattered in such a repressive regime. - The Film Stage
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| Posted Mar 17, 2021
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There Is No Evil (2020) |
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
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| Posted Feb 29, 2020
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Last and First Men (2020) |
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
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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My Little Sister (2020) |
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
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| Posted Feb 26, 2020
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The Aeronauts (2019) |
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
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| Posted Dec 06, 2019
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Sorry We Missed You (2019) |
Sorry We Missed You is, simply, one of [Ken Loach's] best films that links the personal and the political. - The Film Stage
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| Posted Sep 21, 2019
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Sibyl (2019) |
As a metaphor for artistic invention, it's an interesting, but unsuccessful one. - The Film Stage
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| Posted Sep 21, 2019
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An Easy Girl (2019) |
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
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| Posted Sep 21, 2019
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I Was at Home, But (2019) |
A film whose aesthetics may be intensely controlled and yet whose narrative is sprawling with meanings and readings. - The Film Stage
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| Posted Sep 21, 2019
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Synonymes (2018) |
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
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| Posted Sep 21, 2019
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Pain and Glory (2019) |
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
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| Posted Sep 21, 2019
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The Operative (2019) |
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
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| Posted Aug 01, 2019
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Little Joe (2019) |
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
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| Posted May 21, 2019
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A War (2015) |
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
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| Posted Apr 08, 2019
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In the Courtyard (2014) |
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
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| Posted Apr 08, 2019
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Gemma Bovery (2014) |
It feels more that Gemma Bovery goes through the motions of the novel, restricted by its own pretensions to meet high-brow literature. - CineVue
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| Posted Apr 06, 2019
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Mr. Holmes (2015) |
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
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| Posted Apr 05, 2019
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We Are Monster (2014) |
An apparently well-researched drama that feels more like a hopeless shot in the dark at reaching the inner psyche of a killer. - CineVue
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| Posted Apr 05, 2019
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Hyena (2014) |
Johnson is adept at carrying all the baggage that come with such a meaty thriller, and the concluding tragedy comes across with a novelistic sensibility. - CineVue
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| Posted Apr 04, 2019
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Catch Me Daddy (2014) |
Catch Me Daddy is by no means flawless... But there's poetry in the filmmaking, which marks Wolfe out as the real deal. - CineVue
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| Posted Apr 04, 2019
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Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) |
[General audiences] might need to be handcuffed to their seats and wonder how something so wildly popular could be so stiflingly unerotic. - CineVue
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| Posted Apr 04, 2019
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Snow in Paradise (2015) |
Hulme is less able to fully gauge the emotional development of his main character, whose changes come with a little too suddenness. - CineVue
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| Posted Apr 04, 2019
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Chorus (2015) |
A festering beauty of a film slowly reveals itself in this bleak but uplifting black-and-white study of grief from Quebeçois director François Delisle, an acutely aware portrait of a relationship after the unimaginable. - CineVue
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| Posted Apr 04, 2019
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Jafar Panahi's Taxi (2015) |
At 82 minutes, this is a brisk but hugely powerful work that is cinema of the oppressed par excellence. - CineVue
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| Posted Apr 04, 2019
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Queen of the Desert (2015) |
Queen of the Desert has the note of a travelogue about it -- that is to say, it feels well-travelled, but not well-lived. - CineVue
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| Posted Apr 04, 2019
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Set Fire to the Stars (2014) |
This melancholic picture, filmed in South Wales, should make a fine addition to contemporary reflections on the famously roguish poet. - CineVue
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| Posted Apr 03, 2019
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A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014) |
A Walk Among the Tombstones carries its B-movie thrills with aplomb. - CineVue
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| Posted Apr 03, 2019
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20,000 Days on Earth (2014) |
We're carried through in impressionistic fashion, sound and vision beautifully in sync with stirring images of the Brighton landscape where Cave lives and gig footage that betters any recent concert movie. - CineVue
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| Posted Apr 03, 2019
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Into the Storm (2014) |
At least nobody says "there's a storm coming", because every other disaster cliché going is thrown at Into the Storm. - CineVue
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| Posted Apr 03, 2019
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God Help the Girl (2014) |
Some of the songs aren't as strong as others, but the film somehow carries them off with an air of self-aware, carefree charisma. - CineVue
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| Posted Apr 03, 2019
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Dinosaur 13 (2014) |
Miller keeps you absorbed in Sue's tale despite the legal shenanigans that take up most of the film; he keeps it simple, focusing on the story of Larson, a passionate, smart and lovable expert. - CineVue
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| Posted Apr 03, 2019
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Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014) |
Because the screen is now so incredibly saturated with CGI, we simply don't believe for a single second that anything that happens in front of us is anything other than millions of engineered pixels jostling together for our ill-deserved attention. - CineVue
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| Posted Apr 02, 2019
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The Golden Dream (2013) |
A coming of age drama of sorts as four kids up sticks and hike towards America, it never shirks away from the horrors of their journey. - CineVue
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| Posted Mar 26, 2019
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A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014) |
The best stuff is when McFarlane plays up the rag-tangled daftness of the genre, which is perhaps why comparisons to Mel Brooks may not be entirely defunct. - CineVue
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| Posted Mar 22, 2019
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Tracks (2013) |
There may have been times when it looked like Alice's Adventures in the Outback, but Wasikowska herself gives a performance of stature in Davidson's battered shoes. - CineVue
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| Posted Mar 20, 2019
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Almost Married (2014) |
Laughing with the film would probably promote the same kind of moral issues one would have watching a public execution for fun, but thankfully there's barely a joke that registers. - CineVue
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| Posted Mar 08, 2019
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Touch Me Not (2018) |
A studious, intelligent, if flawed and scattershot, work with an open mind about modern sexuality and intimacy. - The Film Stage
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| Posted Feb 25, 2018
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Eva (2018) |
You may struggle to name a dull Huppert performance, but as Eva, the great French actor is going through the motions. - The Film Stage
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| Posted Feb 25, 2018
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Daughter of Mine (2018) |
A wrenching, heartfelt drama with an unfussy social commentary that again seeks a new definition of womanhood. - The Film Stage
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| Posted Feb 19, 2018
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Transit (2018) |
It's an engrossing, uncanny and somewhat disturbing film, and completes something of a trio of historical melodramas after Barbara and his worldwide hit Phoenix, but develops the themes of those in an adventurous, if oblique, way. - The Film Stage
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| Posted Feb 19, 2018
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The Rider (2017) |
Zhao's combination of the visual palette of Malick, the social backbone of Reichardt, and the spontaneity of Cassavetes creates cinema verit in the American plains. - The Film Stage
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| Posted May 22, 2017
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Lover for a Day (2017) |
Garrel has the touch of a wiser man not taking judgment on his characters' youthful foibles, where setbacks are to be embraced and learned from rather than experiences discarded from memory. - The Film Stage
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| Posted May 20, 2017
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Let the Sunshine In (2017) |
A sophisticated, idiosyncratic, thoroughly modern interpretation of a French romantic farce, perceptive if not laugh-out-loud funny. - The Film Stage
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| Posted May 19, 2017
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Mimosas (2016) |
Despite offerings of the open landscapes of North Africa, if there's a wild west in Mimosas, it's internal and spiritual, the quest being for meaning in a world that, like the film, doesn't give easy answers. - The Film Stage
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| Posted Apr 11, 2017
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