Robyn Bahr
Tomatometer-approved critic
Movies reviews only
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Another Body (2023) |
Intriguing but ultimately slight... - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Mar 14, 2023
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It's Only Life After All (2023) |
The rare confessional rockumentary that envelops you like a soft blanket. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Jan 22, 2023
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Birds of Paradise (2021) |
Birds of Paradise gets lost in its own muddied aesthetic pretensions. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Sep 24, 2021
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He's All That (2021) |
He's All That is really no worse than the first film. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Aug 27, 2021
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The Kissing Booth 3 (2021) |
In addition to its narrative bloat, The Kissing Booth 3 looks like it's coming apart at the seams. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Aug 12, 2021
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Hysterical (2021) |
Nevins instead hopes her film will serve as a nourishing broth extracted from the wisdom of veteran comics and newcomers alike. Frankly, though, I wanted something a little meatier. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Apr 01, 2021
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To All the Boys: Always and Forever (2021) |
The most mature, and entertaining, of the three films. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Feb 11, 2021
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All My Life (2020) |
Sloppy sentimentality. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Dec 04, 2020
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Shawn Mendes: In Wonder (2020) |
When it was done, I wasn't sure I had watched anything at all. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Nov 23, 2020
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Transhood (2020) |
Offering no narration, expert talking heads or text interstitials, Liese forgoes contextualizing the culture wars and instead lets her subjects speak for themselves. Their pathos, however, doesn't always localize where you'd expect. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Nov 13, 2020
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Holidate (2020) |
Holidate distinguishes itself only through its reliance on boorish slapstick, exaggeration and vulgarity. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Oct 28, 2020
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The Opening Act (2020) |
Lacking tangible emotional depth, and, frankly, much laugh-out-loud humor at all, The Opening Act is surprisingly underdeveloped for an intimate story about ambition and sacrifice. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Oct 16, 2020
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A Babysitter's Guide to Monster Hunting (2020) |
The film often sinks beneath the weight of its viscous plot. However, it burbles and thrives in moments that rely on aesthetics over story... - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Oct 15, 2020
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American Pie Presents: Girls' Rules (2020) |
Dashed together by a male director, two male screenwriters and a half-male producing team, the film appears to be the cinematic equivalent of two straight girls making out at a party for some bro's attention. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Oct 13, 2020
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The Kissing Booth 2 (2020) |
Frothy and puttering, but its attention to female sexuality distinguishes it. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Jul 24, 2020
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A Secret Love (2020) |
Tender without being cloying, naturalistic without seeming contrived, A Secret Love may be the ideal antidote to your least-favorite queer tropes. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Apr 29, 2020
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Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story (2020) |
It ultimately does little to elucidate the wider social, racial or political contexts that led to her conviction or commuted sentence. In fact, it leaves enough gaps to make you question its entire point of view. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Apr 28, 2020
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To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020) |
To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You is a charmless sequel to a charmless Y.A. rom-com. (Extra rom, hold the com.) - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Feb 11, 2020
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The Little Mermaid Live! (2019) |
Watching the show became an inevitable sine wave of delight and boredom. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Nov 06, 2019
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The College Admissions Scandal (2019) |
It's less an oily TV movie than an afterschool special for adults. You won't learn anything knew, but you may delight in witnessing a few insecure idiots get flushed down the toilet. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Oct 11, 2019
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Between Two Ferns: The Movie (2019) |
By giving the protagonist a pitiable background here, the film's producers are actually weakening the structure of their entire raison d'etre. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Sep 20, 2019
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Ali Wong: Baby Cobra (2016) |
Her pregnancy helps her fire missiles at the sexism of her industry. It is as refreshing as it is vital in a culture that subliminally erases women's personhood as they approach motherhood. - L.A. Weekly
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| Posted Jul 12, 2019
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Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé (2019) |
While Beyonce never formally earned a degree, Homecoming stands as her graduate dissertation, a grandiose masterwork that dissects, hallows and archives the arts of the African diaspora. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Apr 17, 2019
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Escaping the Madhouse: The Nellie Bly Story (2018) |
Ricci, who's always done well by her darkly curious characters, is convincing as a marked woman. But it's Light who ravages the screen, her Matron Grady filled with the class-based self-hatred of a woman Inspector Javer. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Jan 22, 2019
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Ellen DeGeneres: Relatable (2018) |
I just wish she gave us more of her own visceral humanness and trusted us to receive her with a little more darkness than her brand typically allows for. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Dec 26, 2018
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Queen of the World (2018) |
Despite the fact that Queen of the World can't shake its own artifice, this doc will appeal to those fangirls and fanboys who woke up early on May 19th and donned their craziest hats to sit at home and soak in the festivities. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Oct 02, 2018
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Nappily Ever After (2018) |
Bildungsroman disguised as rom-com, the refreshing script much more concerned with its heroine's emotional arc and personal growth than her ultimate relationship status. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Oct 01, 2018
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Betty White: First Lady of Television (2018) |
The documentary, without necessarily meaning to, reveals White as a cultural chameleon, shifting her roles to meet the needs of her audiences through time. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Aug 21, 2018
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The Last Sharknado: It's About Time (2018) |
Honestly, The Last Sharknado isn't bad enough to be good and isn't good enough to be good. It's kind of just... there, lacking the gore of splatterpunk and the sanitation of kiddie-fare. - Hollywood Reporter
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| Posted Aug 17, 2018
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Black Women in Medicine (2016) |
Black Women in Medicine is a document of voices that need to be heard: the pioneers and the young medical students who sacrificed their youth to obtain their credentials. - Village Voice
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| Posted Aug 31, 2016
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Front Cover (2015) |
[A] sexy, ambitious comic drama. - Village Voice
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| Posted Aug 05, 2016
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Time to Choose (2015) |
In forgoing an emphasis on numbers in favor of heart-tugging images of natural beauty and rhapsodic talking-head testimonials, the film comes across more as a sales pitch than an invigorating plea for action. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jun 01, 2016
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Welcome to Happiness (2015) |
Ultimately cloying and unfocused ... - Village Voice
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| Posted May 18, 2016
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Un minuto de bondad (1954) |
There's a juicy story in here, but Orgnani desiccates his narrative by relying on jargon-laden interviews with political wonks and dry intellectuals, presenting a byzantine account of the events with little context. - Village Voice
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| Posted May 18, 2016
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We the People: The Market Basket Effect (2016) |
Combining court documents, footage of the protests, and interviews with reverent personnel, reporters, and politicians, Reid's fast-paced and engaging film appears to play out as a simple question-and-answer exercise. - Village Voice
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| Posted Apr 21, 2016
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High Strung (2016) |
What it loses in thematic richness, the uncynical High Strung makes up for in pure joy. - Village Voice
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| Posted Apr 05, 2016
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