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Michael Koresky

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

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Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019) 50% EDIT “"Where'd You Go, Bernadette" is about love, but for an American film, it's something even rarer-a film about the rekindling of a woman's brilliant career.” – Film Comment Magazine Aug 16, 2019 Full Review Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood (2019) 86% EDIT “What we know-about what really happened-makes Once Upon a Time satisfying; and what we know also makes it indescribably sad. It's an impossible movie, and a movie about impossibility.” – Reverse Shot Aug 9, 2019 Full Review Us (2019) 93% EDIT “Us is supremely confident filmmaking, a thrill ride shot through with existential urgency.” – Reverse Shot Mar 29, 2019 Full Review Climax (2018) 69% EDIT “In the latest goofy provocation from a director who never saw a space-dank dungeon or sunny bedroom-upon which he couldn't unleash a swirly-twirly camera, Noé puts a pansexual, multicultural dance troupe through its paces before sending them to hell.” – Film Comment Magazine Mar 21, 2019 Full Review If Beale Street Could Talk (2018) 95% EDIT “Life exquisitely pours forth out of Barry Jenkins's If Beale Street Could Talk. It's a film that seems to move on unceasing currents of emotion, of love and pain, of big heartaches and small joys, of revelations and disillusionments.” – Reverse Shot Oct 13, 2018 Full Review 3 Faces (2018) 98% EDIT “Panahi's respectful distance is an expression of his solidarity with the eternally oppressed.” – Reverse Shot Oct 12, 2018 Full Review Sorry Angel (2018) 82% EDIT “Few would mistake Sorry Angel for a middlebrow work, though for this film Honoré does trade in the shock value and whimsy of some of his earlier films for a more pragmatic, character-driven approach, informed by a constantly simmering despair.” – Reverse Shot Oct 12, 2018 Full Review Happy as Lazzaro (2018) 91% EDIT “Happy as Lazzaro is entirely its own vision, a deceptively gentle fable that gains in power even as its literal narrative grows more diffuse.” – Reverse Shot Oct 12, 2018 Full Review A Star Is Born (2018) 90% EDIT “A sometimes exhilarating, occasionally frustrating, and always cunning Hollywood product that can feel like a battle of wills between two deliberately self-deprecating artists.” – Film Comment Magazine Oct 6, 2018 Full Review On Chesil Beach (2018) 67% EDIT “Unfortunately, the film sends the fragile characters on a far more traditional arc than does the book, culminating in a sentimental, "present-day" climax complete with tear-stained old-age latex makeup.” – Film Comment Magazine May 3, 2018 Full Review Double Lover (2017) 70% EDIT “The kinky pleasures here often verge on the goofy (a fantasy sequence in which Renier makes out with himself is achievable with some functionally untitillating CGI), and the only real fetishes-twins, couches, mirrors-are purely cinematic ones.” – Film Comment Magazine Jan 3, 2018 Full Review Last Flag Flying (2017) 77% EDIT “The film follows a familiar template, but the wounds it traces are undeniable.” – Film Comment Magazine Nov 3, 2017 Full Review Mudbound (2017) 97% EDIT “Despite the infrastructure set in motion centuries ago to keep only whites in positions of power, Mudbound elegantly depicts how such ingrained racism only serves to aid whites in digging our own graves.” – Reverse Shot Oct 19, 2017 Full Review The Florida Project (2017) 96% EDIT “The general preciousness of The Florida Project serves to mask, or at least distract from, the emotional toll living in such dire straits has on the people in the motel. This is a structural choice.” – Reverse Shot Oct 5, 2017 Full Review mother! (2017) 68% EDIT “This is strenuous, kamikaze filmmaking, and at least for two hours Aronofsky persuades that its ends are eternally urgent enough to justify the hyperbolic means.” – Reverse Shot Sep 15, 2017 Full Review Wonderstruck (2017) 68% EDIT “A thoroughly self-aware object, full of unexpected marvels one might not consider for eternal display, Todd Haynes's Wonderstruck, is a thoroughly self-aware object, full of unexpected marvels, and which takes both museums and film itself as its subjects.” – Film Comment Magazine Sep 7, 2017 Full Review A Ghost Story (2017) 91% EDIT “Self-consciously spare and reaching for a grandeur possibly too far beyond its frame, A Ghost Story is nevertheless a film of mesmerizing visual ideas and conceptual integrity.” – Reverse Shot Jul 15, 2017 Full Review Beach Rats (2017) 84% EDIT “Hittman, a Flatbush native, is preternaturally skilled at immersing herself in the interior world and exterior details of sexually driven, beautifully confused teenagers in Brooklyn neighborhoods that function with their own enclosed ecosystems.” – Film Comment Magazine Jul 11, 2017 Full Review After the Storm (2016) 96% EDIT “If these early passages feel uncommonly unmoored for Kore-eda, it's because he's at his best in moments of togetherness.” – Film Comment Magazine Mar 7, 2017 Full Review I Am Not Your Negro (2016) 99% EDIT “Peck's film reminds us that even though he is no longer with us, he's still talking to us about what's going on.” – Reverse Shot Feb 3, 2017 Full Review I Am Michael (2015) 61% EDIT “The film is careful not to judge its protagonist's spiritual journey, but the delicately pointed direction of the final phone call between Michael and Bennett-Franco shot discreetly from behind and to the side; Quinto head on, facing camera-speaks volumes” – Film Comment Magazine Jan 3, 2017 Full Review Cameraperson (2016) 100% EDIT “A labor of love of the highest order.” – Film Comment Magazine Dec 28, 2016 Full Review I, Daniel Blake (2016) 92% EDIT “A climactic emotional explosion momentarily turns Daniel into something of a working-class hero, although Loach could take up that mantle himself.” – Film Comment Magazine Nov 3, 2016 Full Review Moonlight (2016) 98% EDIT “This is a film that resonates in our culture and moment not because it was manufactured to matter, but because in its every breath it has clearly stayed true to itself. This is all we should ask of film.” – Reverse Shot Oct 20, 2016 Full Review Staying Vertical (2016) 75% EDIT “An aggressively conceptual cycle-of-life saga that brings the director back to his earlier model.” – Reverse Shot Oct 12, 2016 Full Review
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