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Erika Balsom

Erika Balsom's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Working Girls (1986) 92% EDIT “Abstractions can eclipse the particularities of sex work as work. Working Girls redresses this balance with humor and care, delving into the unspectacular grind of selling sex while never entirely giving up a foothold in metaphor.” – 4Columns Jun 14, 2021 Full Review The Intruder (2004) 91% EDIT “An expansive reflection on the pleasures and dangers of boundary violation...Human and animal, past and present, life and death, dreams and waking life: in L'intrus, every threshold is there to be crossed.” – 4Columns Mar 22, 2021 Full Review Queen of Diamonds (1991) 100% EDIT “Queen of Diamonds-refreshingly, vitally, radically-is part of another women's cinema, one that knows that any feminism worthy of the name cannot be grounded in an ideology of individual achievement...” – Cinema Scope Feb 7, 2020 Full Review Non-Fiction (2018) 86% EDIT “Non-Fiction feels breezy, but this is a film in which, on multiple fronts, appearances don't tell the whole story.” – Sight & Sound Oct 18, 2019 Full Review High Life (2018) 83% EDIT “High Life asks us to consider the passion - and the terror - of crossing the event horizon to cast off the laws that bind us and live another day.” – Sight & Sound May 10, 2019 Full Review Happy as Lazzaro (2018) 91% EDIT “In the wide, green eyes of actor Adriano Tardiolo, Rohrwacher finds a gaze that sheds all cynicism, a guileless anchor for her devastating exploration of the false promise of progress and the elusive possibility of collective happiness.” – Sight & Sound Apr 7, 2019 Full Review Nervous Translation (2017) 100% EDIT “Where so many films concentrate on how private lives become embroiled in historical events, Seno focuses on what is undoubtedly more common: those instances when private life seems to continue as usual, indifferent to the warp of political change.” – Cinema Scope Jan 25, 2019 Full Review The Image Book (2018) 90% EDIT “The Image Book contemplates what possibilities of salvation and beauty might still reside in our horrific and uncertain world.” – Sight & Sound Dec 7, 2018 Full Review Let the Sunshine In (2017) 87% EDIT “The generosity of this film resides in its knowledge that we are all imperfect, trying to find ways to live less damaged lives, together.” – Artforum Apr 25, 2018 Full Review Faces Places (2017) 99% EDIT “https://youtu.be/GaoLU6zKawsaIn their efforts to honour these small-towners, our cosmopolitan filmmaker-tourists see only what warms the heart.” – Cinema Scope Mar 21, 2018 Full Review La La Land (2016) 91% EDIT “La La Land remembers when movies were magical and fun, blending nostalgia and contemporaneity in a candy-sweet love letter to cinema.” – Sight & Sound Jan 20, 2017 Full Review Chevalier (2015) 83% EDIT “Chevalier emerges as that fascinating and seemingly paradoxical thing: a feminist film in which women are virtually absent from the screen.” – Sight & Sound Jul 21, 2016 Full Review
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