R.M.N. (2022)
97%
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“Cristian Mungiu’s R.M.N. zooms in on the resentments and anxieties roiling Europe.” –
The New Republic
May 1, 2023
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Nanny (2022)
91%
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“Nikyatu Jusu's portrait of a nanny's breakdown fuses horror and social realism.” –
The New Republic
Nov 18, 2022
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Sharp Stick (2022)
50%
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“Sharp Stick has all the hallmarks of a Dunham production. That’s the problem.” –
The New Republic
Jul 29, 2022
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Happening (2021)
99%
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“Audrey Diwan’s film recreates a woman’s isolating, wrenching efforts to get an abortion in France in the 1960s.” –
The New Republic
May 12, 2022
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The Souvenir Part II (2021)
90%
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“Joanna Hogg's film treat a young artist's coming of age with disarming seriousness.” –
The New Republic
Nov 13, 2021
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The French Dispatch (2021)
75%
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“Set at an upscale midcentury magazine, the new movie is an ode to print and a slice of escapism.” –
The New Republic
Oct 22, 2021
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Zola (2020)
88%
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“Not old-fashioned enough to slip into a morality tale, it nonetheless won't quite let you feel you're watching a woman get away with something.” –
The New Republic
Jul 1, 2021
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Final Account (2020)
93%
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“Luke Holland's film makes a study of evasion, denial, and self-justification among living participants in Hitler's Third Reich.” –
The New Republic
May 21, 2021
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Nomadland (2020)
93%
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“Nomadland treats its subjects with respect and curiosity. Their misfortunes are not used to objectify or other them, as often happens in movies about an impoverished subculture.” –
The New Republic
Mar 5, 2021
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Billie (2019)
97%
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“The thrill of the documentary is in hearing the voices of key players in Holiday's story and their competing versions of events.” –
The New Republic
Mar 2, 2021
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The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021)
55%
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“Maybe each era invents the Lady Day that suits it. Lee Daniels's new drama, The United States vs. Billie Holiday, sweeps in as a valiant corrective, starring the singer Andra Day as a complicated, impulsive, vibrant person...” –
The New Republic
Mar 2, 2021
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Promising Young Woman (2020)
90%
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“Promising Young Woman isn't demonizing anyone, and it's not about how the real baddies are hard to spot. It's about more widespread hypocrisies, about what behavior is collectively encouraged...” –
The New Republic
Dec 28, 2020
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Kajillionaire (2020)
90%
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“Not quite a critique of the adorable whimsy of her early work, Kajillionaire is a head-on encounter with the psychic tensions that always undergirded it.” –
The New Republic
Oct 2, 2020
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Waiting for the Barbarians (2019)
54%
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“Despite its nostalgic trappings, the film, Colombian director Ciro Guerra's English-language debut, soon reveals itself as timely in the extreme: This is a parable of the good cop.” –
The New Republic
Aug 7, 2020
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The Truth (2019)
87%
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“The new film returns to some of Kore-eda's favorite themes of responsibility, legacy, and the fluidity of roles between parents and children.” –
The New Republic
Jul 7, 2020
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
97%
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“The movie's most striking deviation from more traditional period romances is that here power and hierarchy, while they frame the story and must be navigated, are not eroticized.” –
The New Republic
Feb 13, 2020
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A Hidden Life (2019)
82%
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“Perhaps only Malick could at this historical moment make a film so overconfident in its visual and moral convictions.” –
The New Republic
Dec 13, 2019
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Marriage Story (2019)
95%
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“Noah Baumbach's latest film portrays both sides of a messy divorce, for once.” –
The New Republic
Dec 6, 2019
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Loro (2018)
79%
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“That up-close mystery, the endless, aggressive, triumphal flaunting of one's own emptiness, seems to hold an enduring fascination for Sorrentino, and that's the strength of the film, as well as its weakness, at least as a political work.” –
The New Republic
Sep 19, 2019
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Amy (2015)
96%
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“Winehouse, both in her public appearances and in the private films and audio recordings, is funny, sharp, brash, as crude as she is elegant.” –
London Review of Books
Jun 28, 2019
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Non-Fiction (2018)
86%
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“What's oddly touching as the movie goes on is the sense that everyone must force themselves to operate in a cynical mode-in politics or publishing, people keep agreeing, integrity is an embarrassing irrelevance...” –
The New Republic
May 2, 2019
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Everybody Knows (2018)
78%
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“The exception is in the performances: The collaboration between Cruz and Bardem is the film's greatest strength.” –
The New Republic
Feb 5, 2019
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