Keva York
Tomatometer-approved critic
Movies reviews only
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Fast X (2023) |
The mandate to up and up the ante has seen the so-called Fast Saga turn from dumb, hyper-stylish fun into something meaner and more airless. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted May 17, 2023
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Beau Is Afraid (2023) |
Phoenix, for his part, exhibits characteristic dedication to what must be one of the more physically demanding characters he's taken on. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Apr 20, 2023
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) |
Honour Among Thieves is disappointingly straightforward in its approach to the source material. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Mar 30, 2023
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Meet Me in the Bathroom (2022) |
The filmmakers, for their part, bring to bear a feel for the material garnered in the making of Shut Up and Play the Hits... - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Mar 16, 2023
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All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) |
With skill and sensitivity, the filmmaker interweaves Goldin's activism with a biography of the artist and the grimy-glamorous downtown Manhattan scene in which she was enmeshed. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Mar 08, 2023
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Cocaine Bear (2023) |
To be clear, 95 minutes is as long as a film titled Cocaine Bear should ever be. It's more that Banks, much like her bear, seems to have bitten off somewhat more than she can chew. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Feb 24, 2023
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Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023) |
The magic is gone. Not just from the name of the guy shouldering the franchise -- the hunky, golden-hearted ex-stripper played by Channing Tatum, approaching middle age, just goes by Mike Lane now -- but from the franchise itself. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Feb 09, 2023
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Babylon (2022) |
The film ultimately offers something like a square's take on Hollywood as seen through the eyes of Kenneth Anger. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Jan 19, 2023
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022) |
Meeting head-on the complexities of the occasion... Black Panther: Wakanda Forever proves to be one of the more effective recent chapters in the never-ending Marvel story. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Nov 11, 2022
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The Stranger (2022) |
Wright is undoubtedly working in the same grim idiom that has occupied Kurzel since his grizzly 2011 feature debut, Snowtown: the latent violence of the Australian landscape, as channelled by damaged men living on the fringes. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Oct 13, 2022
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Blonde (2022) |
So relentlessly punishing is this telling of the Monroe myth, it's as if Dominik thinks he's the first to notice that beneath the glitz and glamour, there's something rotten in the state of show business. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Sep 29, 2022
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Hit the Road (2021) |
There is warmth, however bittersweet, and great tenderness in this portrait of a family knowingly charting a course for an unwanted and risky separation -- this depth of feeling all too easily traced back to Panahi's own experience of a family imperilled. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Aug 31, 2022
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Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) |
The film feels bland even in comparison to the book's rote romanticism. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Jul 21, 2022
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Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song (2021) |
There's a tension at the film's conceptual level, not because Cohen's Hallelujah is less than great, but because other artists exert a stronger gravitational pull over it. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Jul 15, 2022
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Elvis (2022) |
With Elvis, Luhrmann gives the old bazzle-dazzle to what is perhaps his most iconic subject yet. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Jun 23, 2022
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Benediction (2021) |
Benediction might be a war movie, but the devastation wrought is of a much subtler kind. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Jun 09, 2022
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The Legend of Molly Johnson (2021) |
There is great potency in Purcell's script-flipping set-up; her take on The Drover's Wife, in its multiple incarnations, is a stinging de-mythologisation. She needn't have inscribed the subtext in such bold font. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted May 05, 2022
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Memoria (2021) |
In Apichatpong's thrillingly distinctive cinema, the boundaries between past and present, and between the material and the spiritual worlds, prove porous... Never has this been more explicit than in Memoria. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Apr 07, 2022
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Cyrano (2021) |
The film's unabashed displays of emotion are strangely thrilling. Wright and his troupe seem to have little care -- or is it awareness? -- when it comes to how literal his mode of expressionism is. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Mar 04, 2022
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The Batman (2022) |
The Batman -- the man, the film -- is so hard-boiled it's nigh on turned to stone. Alas, the writing is nowhere near strong enough to support this weight. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Mar 03, 2022
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Benedetta (2021) |
Efira brings a maddeningly beneficent countenance to bear as the lead. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Feb 17, 2022
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The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021) |
Tammy Faye was larger-than-life and a dyed-in-the-polyester iconoclast; if only this film was too. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Jan 27, 2022
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Scream (2022) |
Staying true to the series' very particular form, [directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillettlatest manage] some deft and meaty twists (literal, conceptual) of the old hunting knife -- still Ghostface's weapon of choice. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Jan 21, 2022
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Nightmare Alley (2021) |
At 150 minutes, Nightmare Alley proves a stolid saga, absent much of the spark and, well, magic of del Toro's finest work. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Jan 20, 2022
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House of Gucci (2021) |
With some minor alterations, House of Gucci could've been a showstopper. I guess it still is, in its own, wonky way - and I happen to think that Paolo Gucci looks pretty striking in that pink corduroy, no? - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Jan 04, 2022
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Licorice Pizza (2021) |
It's Haim, crackling with a syncopated, sharpish energy in the role written for her, who proves to be Licorice Pizza's scene-stealer. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Dec 30, 2021
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The Card Counter (2020) |
These sequences are all the more arresting for the sense of their aggressive stylisation being a new trick and Schrader an old bulldog. It's always a thrill when the writer-director indulges his experimental streak. - The Monthly (Australia)
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| Posted Dec 10, 2021
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Zola (2020) |
It's not all that full of suspense -- tending to plod where it should careen, and plateau where it should escalate. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Nov 18, 2021
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The Green Knight (2021) |
There is a sense, then, in which we have all entered into a deal with a proverbial Green Knight -- and we mustn't flinch from the knowledge that whatever blows we deal to him, will in due course be dealt back to us. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Nov 04, 2021
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Martin Eden (2019) |
[A] ravishing adaptation of Jack London's 1909 Künstlerroman. - Australian Book Review
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| Posted Nov 04, 2021
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Nitram (2021) |
For all Kurzel and Grant's claims about the importance of telling this story, the finished product would suggest that they didn't actually have anything particularly insightful to say about it. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Oct 07, 2021
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Coming Home in the Dark (2021) |
Like Funny Games, Coming Home in the Dark is underpinned by a message about our complicity in acts of violence. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Sep 09, 2021
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Candyman (2021) |
The spectral, bee-shrouded butcher cuts a decidedly odd figure standing at the film's moral centre. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Aug 27, 2021
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CODA (2021) |
It's the film's considered, full-bodied engagement with Deaf culture that distinguishes and enlivens what is ultimately a very familiar, and aesthetically generic, story. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Aug 13, 2021
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Space Jam: A New Legacy (2021) |
All this CGI spectacle is designed to obfuscate the fact that the dramatic beats of the game mirror almost exactly those of its predecessor. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Jul 15, 2021
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First Cow (2019) |
First Cow is a characteristically soft-spoken, closely observed story of male friendship found in the Oregonian wilderness of 1820 -- a friendship fed on the milk of the titular beast, pilfered in the name of a small business scheme. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Apr 30, 2021
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Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) |
What Shaka King offers is instead a timely reminder, written in the slick, bold font of a major studio production, that racism is systemic, and it goes all the way to the top -- and, crucially, that it feeds on the underdeveloped political consciousness. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Mar 12, 2021
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Roald Dahl's The Witches (2020) |
This Witches tinkers with the mythology of the book to little effect. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Dec 12, 2020
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Mank (2020) |
Part of Kane's magic, however, is its fractured perspective... In Mank, the only vision we're offered is its namesake's own. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Nov 19, 2020
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Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020) |
What Hittman lays bare in Never Rarely, however, is a system that's nonetheless terribly difficult, and often demeaning, to navigate; one marked by dead ends and blind corners -- and how many of those might harbour a grossly entitled man? - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Oct 30, 2020
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I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020) |
If the results this time around are less dazzling than Being John Malkovich, less poignant than Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, there's still plenty to unpack. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Sep 03, 2020
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The Swallows of Kabul (2019) |
Despite the film's strong -- some would say heavy-handed -- emphasis on those injustices that are particular to women, its messaging proves somewhat mixed. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Aug 20, 2020
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Babyteeth (2019) |
A beautifully observed little film flush with messy humanity. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Jul 24, 2020
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Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019) |
Peppered with zany touches that irk more often than they delight, the film lacks the wily spark that infuses Linklater's best work. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Jul 21, 2020
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The Personal History of David Copperfield (2019) |
The Personal History of David Copperfield is a sprightly and theatrical adaptation that serves up an ensemble of kooky characters better equipped to entertain... - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Jul 02, 2020
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The Assistant (2019) |
A reassuring statement only in the cruellest sense. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Jun 11, 2020
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The Trip to Greece (2020) |
With overseas jaunts tipped to remain verboten for some time to come, the fourth and purportedly final instalment of Michael Winterbottom's tragi-comic culinary travelogue series comes with an extra helping of poignance. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted May 21, 2020
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Honeyland (2019) |
Poignant and beautifully observed. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Mar 05, 2020
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Honey Boy (2019) |
Coming from a star often labelled as surly and inscrutable, the film is a surprisingly heartfelt enterprise, rendered with the kind of knowing, patient care LaBeouf wishes his father had been able to show him in his youth. - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Feb 28, 2020
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Les misérables (2019) |
Without holding one of these filmmakers over the other, what distinguishes Al-Kateab's film from those of Fayyad is a matter of form: For Sama is in essence a diary, a series of home movies... - ABC News (Australia)
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| Posted Feb 06, 2020
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