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Sonia Saraiya

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WeWork: Or the Making and Breaking of a $47 Billion Unicorn (2021) 75% EDIT “If anything, Rothstein's documentary spares us some of the worst excesses of WeWork's corporate culture, and as a result, passes up on the opportunity to come down harder on the startup scene in general.” – Vanity Fair Apr 5, 2021 Full Review Soul (2020) 95% EDIT “Despite some distraction and not quite enough music, Soul manages to tap into deep emotion as its characters explore the limits of mortality and what it means to be passionate about life.” – Vanity Fair Dec 16, 2020 Full Review News of the World (2020) 88% EDIT “If the emotional arc of the movie seems a little predictable... that doesn't make the film unenjoyable.” – Vanity Fair Dec 11, 2020 Full Review Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020) 85% EDIT “As the world gets dumber and dumber, there seems to be a greater need for Cohen's sneaky way of finding the funny-which has itself gotten more pointedly political over the last few years.” – Vanity Fair Oct 21, 2020 Full Review What the Constitution Means to Me (2020) 97% EDIT “With skilled comedic delivery and an exceptionally detailed legal history, [Heidi] Schreck takes us through how the Constitution has both protected and failed us.” – Vanity Fair Oct 16, 2020 Full Review A West Wing Special to Benefit When We All Vote (2020) 93% EDIT “Compared to corny recent reunions offered up by other NBC properties... The West Wing's is surprisingly gorgeous.” – Vanity Fair Oct 16, 2020 Full Review Hamilton (2020) 98% EDIT “A no-frills taping of the musical, with the benefit of a few camera angles and the power to zoom in on the actors' faces. Amazingly, this is enough - more than enough - to bring the studio album to life.” – Vanity Fair Jul 2, 2020 Full Review El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019) 92% EDIT “Gilligan has proven, again and again, that he is a skilled storyteller in this universe, and if a post-finale finale had to exist, El Camino is a lovely coda that puts Jesse's tortured soul to rest, in a way.” – Vanity Fair Oct 14, 2019 Full Review Aziz Ansari: Right Now (2019) 84% EDIT “Right Now is not all good... But whatever soul-searching or image management that Ansari has gone through since the babe.net story has made him a better performer - one who is more able to dwell in gray areas of comedy.” – Vanity Fair Jul 10, 2019 Full Review Deadwood: The Movie (2019) 98% EDIT “The movie is not exactly like the series. But it is a ravishing, bewitching ending to a story that never got one.” – Vanity Fair May 31, 2019 Full Review Knock Down the House (2019) 99% EDIT “What animates the whole film is just how much these women are willing to work, sweat, and fight for what they believe in - with a single-minded dedication that has them panicked, exhausted, and outnumbered.” – Vanity Fair May 1, 2019 Full Review Someone Great (2019) 84% EDIT “It's designed to be the perfect movie to rewatch for the 40th time while putting on your makeup.” – Vanity Fair Apr 18, 2019 Full Review Springsteen on Broadway (2018) 96% EDIT “The power of Springsteen's show radiates from the screen, seizing the viewer with its sincerity.” – Vanity Fair Dec 13, 2018 Full Review Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (2009) 83% A- EDIT “It's a type of world-building best-suited to endless franchises-the multi-book series, the film trilogy, the serialized television show. The detail is there for richness, not for third-act plot expediency.” – AV Club Sep 5, 2018 Full Review EDIT “Little Women strained credibility as a heartwarming tale even in the celebrated 1994 film version; in 2018, the story reads as unadulterated tragedy.” – Vanity Fair May 10, 2018 Full Review Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992 (2017) 100% EDIT “And yet there are moments in Let It Fall that feel like a significant reframing of the riots, both in terms of what actually happened and in terms of who's really to blame.” – Variety Apr 2, 2018 Full Review LA 92 (2017) 96% EDIT “It's a remarkable commentary on overlapping media, and an immersive history of the moment.” – Variety Apr 2, 2018 Full Review L.A. Burning: The Riots 25 Years Later (2017) EDIT “L.A. Burning doesn't feel vital in its retelling, but gets intriguing once it moves past the riots to focus on a question hanging over the story of 1992: How does a black man reconcile these truths and survive, in this world?” – Variety Apr 2, 2018 Full Review A Christmas Story Live! (2017) 43% EDIT “Despite an energetic and dynamic production, Fox's A Christmas Story Live was a disappointing three-hour event.” – Variety Dec 18, 2017 Full Review Flint (2017) 57% EDIT “Flint's writing is at times just atrocious, but these shabby-yet-neat houses are achingly real. And when the women do find each other, the genuine solace and warmth they bring to each other is what keeps the film humming along.” – Variety Oct 30, 2017 Full Review Burn, Motherf*cker, Burn! (2017) 100% EDIT “Documentaries about 1992 are about re-examining the extant archive of material about King. They are also about trying to re-assert the power of videotaped truth, 25 years after realizing its surprising, galling, and definitively maddening limits.” – Variety Sep 25, 2017 Full Review Dirty Dancing (2017) 19% EDIT “Dirty Dancing on ABC is a sappy, passionless, schlocky remake of the original, without even the iota of imagination necessary to expand upon the 1987 film.” – Variety May 19, 2017 Full Review Hairspray Live! (2016) 76% EDIT “Hairspray Live! in the main was genuinely entertaining, even amid some messy moments of a huge production that seemed to be striving for a lot of different emotions all at once.” – Variety Dec 8, 2016 Full Review EDIT “Unfortunately, Fox's production of Rocky Horror, despite a few solid performances, appears to entirely misapprehend the appeal of the original film.” – Variety Oct 14, 2016 Full Review Looking: The Movie (2016) 89% EDIT “There's a lovely delicacy to Looking: The Movie, as evidenced in the intimacy of its conversations, the shots of San Francisco, and the enthusiasm it has for its lovers finding each other, either just for one night or the rest of their lives.” – Variety Jul 11, 2016 Full Review
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