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Kiva Reardon

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

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Félicité (2017) 98% EDIT “...the film doesn't wallow in her dire circumstances and instead celebrates the agency and beauty that exists all around her.” – MUBI Jan 9, 2018 Full Review War Witch (2012) 94% EDIT “It's a parlour trick, creating the illusion of activism while passively watching. Dark arts, indeed.” – Cinema Scope Oct 3, 2017 Full Review From Deep (2013) EDIT “But even with this sagging middle, From Deep's rejection of conventional doc form comes as a welcome reprieve from the norm in this mode of filmmaking.” – Cinema Scope Oct 3, 2017 Full Review From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf (2013) EDIT “As a project exploring collective documentation, From Gulf to Gulf is fascinating.” – Cinema Scope Oct 2, 2017 Full Review Loubia hamra (2014) EDIT “... Narimane Mari's Bloody Beans is riveting from start to finish.” – Cinema Scope Oct 2, 2017 Full Review '71 (2014) 96% EDIT “'71 takes an ethno-nationalist conflict rooted in hundreds of years of colonialist history and makes it beige, apolitical and gutless.” – Cinema Scope Oct 2, 2017 Full Review In the Crosswind (2014) EDIT “Estonian director Marti Helde eschews the form of the standard historical biopic for an exploration of time, which literally stands still onscreen via a series of tableaux vivants.” – Cinema Scope Oct 2, 2017 Full Review Magic Mike (2012) 78% EDIT “While it is based in a kernel of a potentially compelling idea, Magic Mike feels rushed, unplanned and-pardon-half-assed.” – Cinema Scope Oct 2, 2017 Full Review You're Next (2013) 79% EDIT “The film creates both a fresh text from old conventions and fresh kills with innocuous objects.” – Cinema Scope Oct 2, 2017 Full Review Short Term 12 (2013) 98% EDIT “Moving into darker territory where the mumblecore milieu would never venture, Short Term 12 offers a much-needed corrective to the indie-darling set-particularly in its curiously optimistic ending.” – Cinema Scope Oct 2, 2017 Full Review Devil's Knot (2013) 26% EDIT “Devil's Knot feels strangely clean. This, at least, meshes with the film's made-for-TV quality and style, although at this punishing duration, such tidiness hardly seems worth celebrating.” – Cinema Scope Oct 2, 2017 Full Review Watermark (2013) 77% EDIT “Through their awe-inspiring images of rivers and tides, Burtynsky and Baichwal carve out a space for reflection about where and how we mere mortals fit within this watery world.” – Cinema Scope Oct 2, 2017 Full Review Triptych (2013) EDIT “With Robert Lepage and Pedro Pires' Triptych, you get three terrible films for the price of one.” – Cinema Scope Oct 2, 2017 Full Review The Lunchbox (2013) 97% EDIT “The film refuses the old adage that all you need is love, rooting both their stories in harsher socio-economic realities. The film is slight, but there's enough there to pique interest in what Barta does next.” – Cinema Scope Oct 2, 2017 Full Review Afflicted (2013) 83% EDIT “There's no beauty or inspiration in the film's shooting style, and most importantly, no terror. If this is "ingenious" horror filmmaking, as the programme note suggests, get me off this planet.” – Cinema Scope Oct 2, 2017 Full Review National Gallery (2014) 95% EDIT “Wiseman does what he does best: creates a holistic sense of a place as an organic habitat rather than a mere organization.” – Cinema Scope Sep 30, 2017 Full Review The Wanted 18 (2014) 69% EDIT “Admirable aims, to be sure, but overall the film is as awkward as a cow on a crutch.” – Cinema Scope Sep 30, 2017 Full Review Eden (2014) 84% EDIT “Eden forces a few things, but it's punctuated with enough moments of genuine exuberance and humour to offset its flaws.” – Cinema Scope Sep 29, 2017 Full Review Trick or Treaty? (2014) EDIT “[Trick or Treaty] deceptively simple and entirely powerful-no gimmicks, no gags, no tricks.” – Cinema Scope Sep 29, 2017 Full Review Kevin Hart: What Now? (2016) 75% 1/4 EDIT “Overall during his stand up, the directors never manage to capture Hart's... well, heart.” – National Post Oct 13, 2016 Full Review That Sugar Film (2014) 69% 2/5 EDIT “It's important to probe the Western world's overconsumption of sugar, but Gameau's attempts to do so while being hip and fun feel condescending and trite.” – NOW Toronto Jul 9, 2015 Full Review She's Lost Control (2014) 74% B+ EDIT “Marquardt leaves too much intentional ambiguity for her film to fall victim to predictability.” – AV Club Mar 19, 2015 Full Review Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead (2014) 82% D EDIT “A feeling of foreboding sets in early in Kiah Roache-Turner's zombie-apocalypse thriller Wyrmwood: Road Of The Dead. Unfortunately, it has nothing to do with the hellish subject matter and everything to do with the direction.” – AV Club Feb 12, 2015 Full Review Love, Rosie (2014) 32% 2.5/4 EDIT “Love, Rosie's early charm fades by the end, given that, as time (and the movie) wears on, neither Rosie nor Alex get any more mature when it comes to matters of the heart.” – Globe and Mail Feb 6, 2015 Full Review A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) 96% 3.5/4 EDIT “Combing horror, film noir and westerns, Ana Lily Amirpour's debut feature, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, is a refreshing take on vampire lore.” – Globe and Mail Jan 23, 2015 Full Review
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