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Jo Livingstone

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The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) 93% EDIT “Joel Coen has made his Macbeths into real adults, who seem to drag real responsibilities behind them.” – The New Republic Jan 15, 2022 Full Review The Lost Daughter (2021) 94% EDIT “It addresses the impossible, ordinary, maddening task of keeping both yourself and a child alive.” – The New Republic Jan 8, 2022 Full Review C'mon C'mon (2021) 94% EDIT “C'mon C'mon is awash with regret-over badly tended sibling relationships, undealt-with mommy issues, but also the satisfaction of everyday caretaking, the hope implicit in all those lunches made and dishes done.” – The New Republic Jan 8, 2022 Full Review The Hand of God (2021) 84% EDIT “As befits an event with such a lovely name, there is a rich cultural seam of Hand of God art.” – The New Republic Dec 17, 2021 Full Review Licorice Pizza (2021) 90% EDIT “A meandering nostalgia trap...Paul Thomas Anderson's latest movie makes the 1970s dreamy but lacks the edge of his earlier films.” – The New Republic Dec 3, 2021 Full Review Spencer (2021) 83% EDIT “In Pablo Larraín's dreamlike movie, Diana is not the people's princess but a woman in search of herself.” – The New Republic Nov 5, 2021 Full Review No Time to Die (2021) 83% EDIT “Nomi's presence in the film-along with the fact that, finally, Ben Whishaw as Q has been allowed to play the character as gay-suggests a new and bright future for the franchise.” – The New Republic Oct 8, 2021 Full Review The Many Saints of Newark (2021) 72% EDIT “Although nostalgic by its very nature, The Many Saints of Newark rescues itself from schmaltziness by its focus on the impossibility of living out masculine ideals.” – The New Republic Oct 1, 2021 Full Review The Most Beautiful Boy in the World (2021) 78% EDIT “Andrésen has spent a long time without the language to express what he went through. The Most Beautiful Boy in the World explores and honors that trauma in equal measure, and documents a troubling moment in the history of sexuality in popular culture.” – The New Republic Sep 24, 2021 Full Review Candyman (2021) 84% EDIT “DaCosta uses precise camerawork and clever, subtle mirror shots to suggest...that it's seductive but dangerous to name the worst of anybody's traumas anywhere, but especially in the vicinity of a mirror.” – The New Republic Aug 27, 2021 Full Review The Green Knight (2021) 89% EDIT “David Lowery's movie, starring Dev Patel, cleverly unfolds the public consequences of private indiscretions.” – The New Republic Jul 30, 2021 Full Review Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021) 63% EDIT “Those Who Wish Me Dead ends up offering something quite radical within its understated package.” – The New Republic May 21, 2021 Full Review Lucky (2020) 93% EDIT “Lucky is about being attacked, and the way harm of various kinds can isolate us, put us beyond the understanding of others, and generally disrupt the direction of one's life.” – The New Republic Mar 4, 2021 Full Review Slaxx (2020) 96% EDIT “Slaxx uses almost lo-fi theatrical techniques to turn objects into monsters.” – The New Republic Mar 4, 2021 Full Review Hereditary (2018) 90% EDIT “The open-ended stakes of these genre experiments are rebellious at a time when horror movie messaging can feel so heavy-handed.” – The New Republic Mar 4, 2021 Full Review Violation (2020) 88% EDIT “Violation stands out for the modesty of its aims and execution amid a crowded horror scene awash in overambitious world-building.” – The New Republic Mar 4, 2021 Full Review EMMA. (2020) 86% EDIT “Austen's genius lay in turning one girl's interior world into the whole universe, and transforming the pettiest of social interactions into microcosms with global moral significance.” – The New Republic Sep 18, 2020 Full Review The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) 92% EDIT “The new film adaptation, co-written by Iannucci and Simon Blackwell, takes that human energy as its lifting-off point, and is simply too faithful, rich, and bright to be dimmed by the circumstances of its release.” – The New Republic Sep 18, 2020 Full Review Boys State (2020) 95% EDIT “The documentary about a political boot camp is a depressingly accurate microcosm of the American electoral circus...helpful-if only as a cautionary tale about what extracurriculars not to enroll your kids in.” – The New Republic Aug 25, 2020 Full Review Miss Juneteenth (2020) 99% EDIT “Miss Juneteenth is a pleasing visual mix of Fort Worth filmed in pastel colors and rigorously lit, gorgeous portrait shots.” – The New Republic Jun 19, 2020 Full Review Da 5 Bloods (2020) 92% EDIT “Beneath the layer of blood and the ever-present threat of death, Da 5 Bloods is a study in intimate masculine relationships, specifically black ones, and the way those bonds are exploited in the name of war.” – The New Republic Jun 12, 2020 Full Review The Painter and the Thief (2020) 97% EDIT “One leaves The Painter and the Thief feeling eager to see what might happen if we were kinder and less self-interested, and convinced anew of the basic connection between paint and the human heart.” – The New Republic Jun 4, 2020 Full Review The Wolf House (2018) 96% EDIT “The Wolf House is stop-motion unlike anything you've seen before, in which every single frame is an individual monument...” – The New Republic May 22, 2020 Full Review AKA Jane Roe (2020) 88% EDIT “It felt good to meet the real Norma McCorvey on-screen in AKA Jane Roe. She was funny, glamorous, queer, and -- ultimately -- honest about all those things.” – The New Republic May 22, 2020 Full Review Capone (2020) 40% EDIT “...admittedly a sluggish film devoid of much tension.” – The New Republic May 12, 2020 Full Review
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