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Susan G. Cole
Susan G. Cole's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at the following Tomatometer-approved publication(s):
NOW Toronto
POV Magazine
Movies reviews only
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My Name Is Andrea (2022) |
[A] welcome rehabilitation of the reputation of an iconically gifted writer who paved the way for a movement that put gender violence at the centre of public discourse. - POV Magazine
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| Posted Sep 25, 2023
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Copa 71 (2023) |
[I]f you watch Copa 71, the documentary about a one-off Women’s World Cup competition in Mexico City, you will be amazed, first because almost no one has ever heard of this long-ago tournament. - POV Magazine
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| Posted Sep 25, 2023
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God is a Woman (2023) |
Peyrot overlays shots of the viewers onto the film images on the screen, an intriguing strategy highlighting the fact that the community has changed. - POV Magazine
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| Posted Sep 25, 2023
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Sorry/Not Sorry (2023) |
Cancelled? As fiery comic Aida Rodriguez puts it, who’s worrying about the many talented female comics whose entire careers, thanks to C.K., were cancelled? - POV Magazine
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| Posted Sep 25, 2023
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Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness (2011) |
An important doc for anyone who cares about literature. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Sep 23, 2020
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Hannah Gadsby: Douglas (2020) |
Douglas is a maddeningly inconsistent stand-up special... - NOW Toronto
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| Posted May 27, 2020
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Be Like Others (2008) |
A sad slice of gender fascism. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted May 18, 2020
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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2018) |
Just try throwing shade at Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again. Its relentlessly sunny spirit will burn right through it. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Mar 30, 2019
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The Misandrists (2017) |
The Misandrists is supposed to be a send-up of radical feminism, but it only occasionally shows any understanding of feminist thinking, and the film isn't funny for a second. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Jan 29, 2019
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Nothing Like a Dame (2018) |
Too much time is given to the legends complaining about the rigors of filming this documentary, but it's ultimately big fun having tea with these Dames. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Nov 28, 2018
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Selma (2014) |
Listen to Common's track over the final credits. This movie is continuing a conversation that America cannot ignore. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Oct 04, 2018
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93Queen (2018) |
What at first looks like a straightforward story about plucky Hasidic women battling to create an all-female emergency force in Brooklyn turns into something much more complex. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Oct 04, 2018
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Jane Fonda in Five Acts (2018) |
The filmmaking in this doc may be conventional, but there's nothing conventional about its subject. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Sep 20, 2018
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Gloria Bell (2018) |
The glorious Julianne Moore is the best reason to see this American adaptation of Sebastián Lelio's Chilean film. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Sep 12, 2018
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Colette (2018) |
This biopic of France's best-selling female author is packed with flaws, but star Keira Knightley carries it off with panache. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Sep 11, 2018
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When Arabs Danced (Au temps où les Arabes dansaient) (2018) |
This is a celebration of artistic freedom and beauty - and a provocation. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Sep 08, 2018
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Loro (2018) |
I thought the party sequences in The Wolf Of Wall Street were just fine, thank you, but Loro's give new meaning to the word gratuitous. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Sep 08, 2018
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Transit (2018) |
Petzold's moody meditation on exile and rootlessness may lack the narrative drive of his brilliant last film, Phoenix, but it's unsettling and powerful nevertheless. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Sep 06, 2018
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Sibel (2018) |
The film illuminates patriarchy's persistence - and the sexual repression that goes with it - in rural Turkey but thankfully never uses a sledgehammer. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Sep 06, 2018
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Ava (2017) |
[Sadaf] Foroughi is definitely one to watch. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Jul 14, 2018
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Golden Dawn Girls (2017) |
Bustnes inserts himself into the film, sometimes getting in the way of the action. And his line of questioning to the women gets repetitive. But he exposes the party's Nazi sympathies and fascist agenda and those tiki torches are truly terrifying. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted May 02, 2018
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The Game Changers (2018) |
The film's appeal to vanity and men's virility is problematic. Better to concentrate more on how plant-based diets could save the planet. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Apr 26, 2018
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Yours in Sisterhood (2018) |
The readers are diverse and candid, but this doc has no dramatic pretensions or narrative arc, per se. It's the trove of letters that matters. The film's value lies in uncovering the voices seldom heard. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Apr 26, 2018
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Won't You Be My Neighbor? (2018) |
It's Rogers himself who makes this movie remarkable. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Apr 26, 2018
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The Devil We Know (2018) |
[It] may not break any formal boundaries, but the shock factor makes it a must-see. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Apr 26, 2018
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The Oslo Diaries (2017) |
Three essential points emerge. Talking leads to enemies discovering one another's humanity. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Apr 26, 2018
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Blowin' Up (2018) |
Blowin' Up winds up being a powerful ode to a sanctuary city. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Apr 26, 2018
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Final Portrait (2017) |
At a time when there's been an increasing demand for women's stories, it's hard to care about an aging male creator who treats everyone around him as if he's the only person on the planet. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Apr 05, 2018
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Foxtrot (2017) |
Maoz constructs the film as an elaborate puzzle with pieces that come together in the end. But its power emerges from the terrific performances, especially by Ashkenazi as a tortured soul who seems to trust no one. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Mar 14, 2018
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Machines (2016) |
A powerful portrayal of exploitation. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Feb 08, 2018
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In the Fade (2017) |
On this emotional roller coaster, Katja's capable of just about anything. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Jan 18, 2018
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The Post (2017) |
Most of the fault lies with writers Liz Hannah and Josh Singer, neither of whom have major credits on their resumé. But it doesn't help that Spielberg is a true believer in America and everything he thinks it stands for. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Jan 04, 2018
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Wonder Wheel (2017) |
The film pounds away at its metaphors: you get the carousel going round and round and the Wonder Wheel ride outside the family's apartment spinning endlessly. Do we need two symbols of someone being in a rut? - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Dec 07, 2017
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Chavela (2017) |
By the end, the filmmakers have painted a portrait of a uniquely passionate artist, beloved by audiences in both her home country and Spain, where Pedro Almodvar figures prominently in her story. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Dec 07, 2017
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I, Tonya (2017) |
You'd think this Tonya Harding biopic would turn out to be nothing but an extended punchline, but it's actually a savvy meditation on class, the bull inside the competitive skating world and the dynamics of family abuse. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Dec 04, 2017
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The Children Act (2017) |
This very faithful adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel - he wrote the screenplay - isn't a barnburner but, anchored by Emma Thompson's excellent performance, definitely keeps your interest. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Sep 15, 2017
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Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool (2017) |
Annette Bening makes this story of Gloria Grahame's last days a must-see. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Sep 13, 2017
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Disobedience (2017) |
It's well done, if not entirely convincing. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Sep 13, 2017
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Chappaquiddick (2017) |
This account of the late senator Ted Kennedy's bad behaviour after his car went off the road and killed his passenger, Mary Joe Kopechne, spends way too much time trying to make us feel sorry for him. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Sep 13, 2017
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The Wife (2017) |
[Glenn] Close carries the pic, letting her silence speak volumes and then exploding with a righteous rage when she's had enough. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Sep 13, 2017
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Mark Felt: The Man Who Brought Down the White House (2017) |
The film is so dull. It gives no sense of the complexity of the man, in terms of both his personal and professional lives. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Sep 13, 2017
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My Days of Mercy (2017) |
Joe Barton's script, especially the dialogue between the two lovers about capital punishment, is pointed and very smart, and he knows how to let information trickle out at the right pace. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Sep 13, 2017
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Mary Shelley (2017) |
The first hour, which focuses on Mary and Percy's love story starts to sag, but when Mary finds her artistic inspiration, the film takes off. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Sep 13, 2017
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What Will People Say (2017) |
A brilliant, nuanced movie about female oppression. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Sep 11, 2017
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There Is a House Here (2017) |
The film has a strong emotional force. It helps that Zweig's personal guide is his friend Lucie Idlout, whose charisma and personal pain give the movie real power. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Sep 11, 2017
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Porcupine Lake (2017) |
The key to this compelling pic is the way it keeps you on edge - Ally isn't exactly nurturing and Kate is probably big trouble so you're never sure what or who to root for. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Sep 11, 2017
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This is a fine take on what happens when a divorcing couple can't see the impact of their acrimony on their child. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Sep 11, 2017
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Meditation Park (2017) |
[Writer/Director Mina] Shum mines her favourite theme - immigrant experience in Canada - in what seems at first to be a gentle slice of life but eventually develops a powerful emotional force. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Sep 08, 2017
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Miami (2017) |
This improbable story of half-sisters who reconnect works because of its strong performances and the way director Bergroth keeps ratcheting up the tension. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Sep 08, 2017
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A Fantastic Woman (2017) |
The filmmaking is expert. Watch how Lelio uses mirrors and windows, especially in the moments just after the aforementioned family attack. - NOW Toronto
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| Posted Sep 08, 2017
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