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Johanna Schneller

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Babygirl (2024) 76% EDIT “What deepens this film is Reijn’s empathy for Romy and for all women. How exhausting our pursuit of perfection is. How, sometimes, it feels that the only way out is to blow it all up. ” – Globe and Mail Dec 19, 2024 Full Review The Return (2024) 78% EDIT “Though the stately pace can be frustrating, its anti-war stance ultimately feels modern and urgent. ” – Globe and Mail Dec 6, 2024 Full Review Porcelain War (2024) 96% EDIT “This film doesn’t flinch from violence, but it finds hope in a people’s patient refusal to surrender who they are.” – Globe and Mail Dec 6, 2024 Full Review The Heirloom (2024) EDIT “The result is part auto-fiction, part therapy session and part cheeky joke (it’s very deadpan-funny). It also made my heart hurt, for everyone who’s ever suffered a quarter-life crisis.” – Globe and Mail Dec 2, 2024 Full Review We Live in Time (2024) 79% EDIT “Pugh’s fierceness and Garfield’s ready access to emotion make them a good match; the dialogue is witty and it’s a pleasure just to listen to them talk. Most importantly, everyone involved is serious about and committed to and yes, in love with the story.” – Globe and Mail Oct 18, 2024 Full Review A Different Man (2024) 93% EDIT “The film raises a couple of unintended questions... But most of the questions are the good kind, the ones you leave the theatre asking yourself.” – Globe and Mail Sep 26, 2024 Full Review My Old Ass (2024) 90% EDIT “Park doesn’t telegraph her big ideas, but they bob around throughout, as jewel-like as those cranberries shining in their sunny pond: Would you want to know what was going to happen in your life, even the bad stuff?” – Globe and Mail Sep 19, 2024 Full Review It Ends With Us (2024) 55% EDIT “Incredibly, Lively makes it all work. Beyond nailing Lily’s exact shade of auburn hair... she also conveys her luminousness and strength, and reminds you how pleasurable it can be to watch a romantic thriller.” – Globe and Mail Aug 13, 2024 Full Review Brats (2024) 85% EDIT “Watching it, I felt something quite different from what McCarthy, now 61, intended: a shimmering nostalgia for the once-great power of magazines.” – Globe and Mail Jun 28, 2024 Full Review I Used to be Funny (2023) 83% EDIT “Rachel Sennott has the greatest face. It cannot lie, no matter what her characters are saying. That honesty makes her ideal for films with tricky tones... And it’s essential to I Used to Be Funny.” – Globe and Mail Jun 6, 2024 Full Review Back to Black (2024) 35% EDIT “A straightforward depiction of the painful events we all witnessed, softened by a compassionate imagining of how Winehouse might have gotten there.” – Globe and Mail May 14, 2024 Full Review The King Tide (2023) 95% EDIT “Sparkes really sticks the landing here: He makes it inevitable, sending you out of the theatre shaken yet also thrilled.” – Globe and Mail Apr 26, 2024 Full Review Housekeeping for Beginners (2023) 94% EDIT “In lesser hands, this chaos might tumble into melodrama or farce. But Stolevski’s actors deliver such naturalistic performances, and he writes such specific dialogue...” – Globe and Mail Apr 12, 2024 Full Review Carol Doda Topless at the Condor (2024) 96% EDIT “What I see is a social media influencer before social media, a person who did whatever it took to keep us looking, especially if that meant she didn’t have to look too deeply at herself.” – Globe and Mail Apr 8, 2024 Full Review Wicked Little Letters (2023) 80% EDIT “It’s saved, first by strong performances from Buckley, always effortlessly believable, and Colman, expert at laying bare the clammy soul of easily dismissible women. And second, by the letters themselves...” – Globe and Mail Apr 5, 2024 Full Review Club Zero (2023) 65% EDIT “Hausner is clearly talented, and I’m all for a film without easy answers. But I wish this one was less insistently opaque.” – Globe and Mail Mar 29, 2024 Full Review Problemista (2023) 85% EDIT “The film is very funny, but also so jam-packed – with fairytale imagery, art world tropes, caustic roommates, uncaring institutions – that as you’re watching, it can feel a bit much.” – Globe and Mail Mar 21, 2024 Full Review 80 for Brady (2023) 59% EDIT “The condescending vibe and the whatever-ness of it all are disappointing given the collective calibre of the stars, revered, funny veterans who deserve better.” – Globe and Mail Feb 2, 2023 Full Review The Swearing Jar (2022) 94% EDIT “A movie you didn’t expect... equally thoughtful and full of feeling.” – Globe and Mail Nov 2, 2022 Full Review Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris (2022) 94% EDIT “If you’re anxious and world-weary and you want the next season of Emily in Paris to hurry up and arrive, this film may be just the ticket.” – Globe and Mail Jul 12, 2022 Full Review Benediction (2021) 92% EDIT “The dialogue is quietly scathing, and the production values are sumptuous.” – Globe and Mail May 26, 2022 Full Review Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022) 73% EDIT “There may be a universe in which I feel the barest thread of emotional connection to even one thing that happens during the 126 minutes of loud, smeary nonsense that is Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. But I doubt it.” – Globe and Mail May 3, 2022 Full Review All My Puny Sorrows (2021) 72% EDIT “I love this movie like a person. It pierced my heart the way certain paintings or pieces of music do. The way standing at the foot of a mountain does.” – Globe and Mail Apr 13, 2022 Full Review Deep Water (2022) 35% EDIT “A movie so outdated in its view of women and relationships, and so outlandishly pervy and reductive, they should have called it Male Gaze.” – Globe and Mail Mar 15, 2022 Full Review The 355 (2022) 24% EDIT “I was pleasantly entertained watching these chicks wheel around and elbow men in the throat, especially Kruger, who obviously could kill me without breaking a sweat.” – Globe and Mail Jan 6, 2022 Full Review
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