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Shar Tan

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Bleeding Love (2023) 57% EDIT “But the film’s contrived script... is too invested in spelling out, step-by-step, what addiction is, and this ultimately eschews a nuanced exploration on the never-ending muck of sobriety.” – In Review Online Feb 15, 2024 Full Review I Love You More (2023) EDIT “While I Love You More is a warm film with sincere intentions, there is really not much that pushes the edges of what we have already seen.” – In Review Online Feb 14, 2024 Full Review Ponyboi (2024) 81% EDIT “Ponyboi succeeds in carving a heartfelt portrayal of intersex queer identity. But Gallo’s screenplay is too invested in expository gestures, & the film’s self-conscious didacticism undercuts its desire to actually deliver a... consideration of queerness.” – In Review Online Jan 29, 2024 Full Review Mambar Pierrette (2023) 100% EDIT “The drudgery of financial precarity exists alongside moments of joy, which prevents Mbakam’s film from being overly gratuitous in depicting the continual cruelty that Mambar is dealt.” – In Review Online Jan 24, 2024 Full Review Scrapper (2023) 94% EDIT “While a boisterous portrayal of working-class joy, it's still a shame that the kitsch aesthetics of Scrapper ultimately sacrifice the potential for richer interpersonal study. ” – In Review Online Aug 23, 2023 Full Review Anonymous Sister (2021) 100% EDIT “Anonymous Sisters is a fairly standard documentary — there are rarely any aesthetic embellishments to Boyle’s direction — but its brilliance lies in its familial intimacy and lived-in closeness.” – In Review Online Jun 5, 2023 Full Review A Song Sung Blue (2023) 60% EDIT “A delicate and bittersweet queer coming-of-age film, A Song Sung Blue is also, unfortunately, weighed down by all the predictable beats that befall its bildungsroman genre. ” – In Review Online May 31, 2023 Full Review The Starling Girl (2023) 92% EDIT “[The] coming-of-age narrative is predictably structured, with the exposure of Owen and Jem’s illicit relationship perfectly timed toward the film’s end, it nonetheless boasts searing moments of tenderness that add surprising depth to a common subgenre.” – In Review Online May 12, 2023 Full Review You Can Live Forever (2022) 91% EDIT “You Can Live Forever offers an achingly authentic look at a love affair condemned by the puritanical environment that seeks to curtail it.” – In Review Online May 5, 2023 Full Review The End of Sex (2022) 59% EDIT “In The End of Sex, there is no melodrama to be found in the waning of sexual passions or confessions of illicit desires — the ordinariness of domesticity is where true intimacy is slowly nurtured.” – In Review Online Apr 29, 2023 Full Review Joyland (2022) 98% EDIT “Joyland would have made for a searing indictment of patriarchal cruelty if it had sustained the masterful concision displayed in its opening scene.” – In Review Online Jan 28, 2023 Full Review Beautiful Beings (2022) 82% EDIT “Icelandic director Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson’s Beautiful Beings is a brutal yet abundantly tender coming-of-age tale that examines how intergenerational trauma mars the friendships that teenagers have with each other.” – In Review Online Jan 16, 2023 Full Review Nelly & Nadine (2022) 94% EDIT “Nelly & Nadine, however, suffers from a failure of imagination... This is a shame since the documentary’s premise is an extraordinary testament to the bravery of lesbian love. ” – In Review Online Dec 21, 2022 Full Review
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