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Nathalie Atkinson

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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale (2025) 91% EDIT “Returning director Simon Curtis still doesn’t solve the television pacing and plotting problem of making a two-hour fan film that doesn’t feel like episodes tacked together, but at least gives each of the extensive beloved cast an arc and some closure.” – Globe and Mail Sep 12, 2025 Full Review Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022) 87% EDIT “The film’s sentimental plot may be thinner than a sheet of tissue paper, but it was still moving to this stalwart viewer.” – Globe and Mail May 19, 2022 Full Review Holy Motors (2012) 91% 2.5/4 EDIT “Léos Carax's fifth feature film, his first since 1999's Pola X, is a riddle within a dream wrapped in four layers of enigma.” – National Post Apr 29, 2020 Full Review Greed (2019) 50% 3/4 EDIT “As Gordon Gekko would say, Greed is good.” – Globe and Mail Mar 5, 2020 Full Review Frankie (2019) 57% 3/4 EDIT “Sachs manages this day in the life without cumbersome exposition thanks to the texture of this casting, all while keeping the disparate concerns of three generations moving.” – Globe and Mail Nov 8, 2019 Full Review Last Christmas (2019) 47% 2.5/4 EDIT “Even so, this familiar and formulaic holiday tale has its pleasures, unless your name is Ebenezer - and in the end, even he was mollified.” – Globe and Mail Nov 8, 2019 Full Review Downton Abbey (2019) 84% 2.5/4 EDIT “Between the tiaras, the tea trays, the synchronized curtsies, meaningful glances, and interludes of fisticuffs and tweed, fans of the long-running series will feel like they've slipped into a welcome warm bath.” – Globe and Mail Sep 19, 2019 Full Review The Whistlers (2019) 83% 3/4 EDIT “To the untrained, Silbo mimics birdsong and this peculiarity is as much for absurd effect than service to story.” – Globe and Mail Sep 7, 2019 Full Review Halston (2019) 77% 2.5/4 EDIT “The underlying, more interesting documentary here, however, is concerned with understanding the why.” – Globe and Mail May 30, 2019 Full Review McQueen (2018) 99% 3.5/4 EDIT “McQueen is a haunting biography that goes beyond even that live runway experience to conjure the visionary himself, in as much as he may ever be known - and in a way even his savagely beautiful clothes themselves cannot.” – Globe and Mail Aug 3, 2018 Full Review Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (2017) 85% 3/4 EDIT “An anthropology of the sub rosa social life made necessary by a repressive Hollywood studio system.” – Globe and Mail Aug 3, 2018 Full Review The Gospel According to André (2017) 87% 2.5/4 EDIT “Novack seems to have to tread lightly around him. It's left to interviewees such as academics, Fran Lebowitz and Whoopi Goldberg to weigh in.” – Globe and Mail May 25, 2018 Full Review Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2017) 88% 3.5/4 EDIT “What's admirable about the film is how Driver gives the cross-pollinating forces of music, media, fashion and art such concise, firsthand exploration.” – Globe and Mail May 18, 2018 Full Review The Limehouse Golem (2016) 74% 3/4 EDIT “It translates novelist Peter Ackroyd's densely historical and cerebral foray into the horror genre into an entertainment, without being weighed down by Ackroyd's numerous fascinating but imaginative layers and tangents.” – Globe and Mail Oct 13, 2017 Full Review Woodshock (2017) 27% 2.5/4 EDIT “A baffling and unnecessary third-act coup de théâtre abruptly crashes a comedown from the elaborate high.” – Globe and Mail Sep 29, 2017 Full Review The Commune (2016) 71% 2.5/4 EDIT “Dyrholm is always exceptional but here as a femme d'un certain age in both home and career letting it all fall apart, she is incandescent, with a stillness that transcends the histrionics around her.” – Globe and Mail May 19, 2017 Full Review A Quiet Passion (2016) 92% 3/4 EDIT “In a series of portrait episodes, Davies treads Dickinson's biographical terrain without presuming to editorialize; instead, Dickinson's poetry speaks for itself in voiceover.” – Globe and Mail Apr 14, 2017 Full Review My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea (2016) 84% 3/4 EDIT “Shaw's loose, thick characters throb on the colourful, ever-changing textured and hand-painted celluloid even as the cynical teens quip and quibble like world-weary literati.” – Globe and Mail Apr 14, 2017 Full Review Table 19 (2017) 25% 2/4 EDIT “RSVP: Decline with regret.” – Globe and Mail Mar 3, 2017 Full Review All We Had (2016) 40% EDIT “Even in a rote story, with prosaic direction from Holmes, the lead performances ring true.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Dec 9, 2016 Full Review Our Little Sister (2015) 93% 3/4 EDIT “It's subdued, at times even too leisurely, but the film and its characters are luminous, especially lead Ayase Haruka.” – Globe and Mail Jul 22, 2016 Full Review Love & Friendship (2016) 96% 4/4 EDIT “Adapted with great warmth and wit ...” – Globe and Mail May 27, 2016 Full Review Men & Chicken (2015) 84% 3.5/4 EDIT “It's a twisted existential grotesque that wrings thought-provoking pathos and even affection for the lunatics running the menagerie, no mean feat.” – Globe and Mail May 20, 2016 Full Review The Measure of a Man (2015) 92% 3/4 EDIT “On this small scale and rather ordinary canvas the human drama is keenly felt.” – Globe and Mail Apr 15, 2016 Full Review Francofonia (2015) 87% 3/4 EDIT “"Who would we be without museums?" Aleksandr Sokurov wonders as he narrates this challenging philosophical essay, and sifts materials back, forth and around in the Louvre's history.” – Globe and Mail Apr 8, 2016 Full Review
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