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Joan Baez I Am a Noise (2023) |
It recast my conception of her and deepened my understanding of her and her music. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Nov 01, 2023
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Dear David (2023) |
I never got inside of this; it just felt like a lot of gimmicks. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Nov 01, 2023
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My Love Affair with Marriage (2022) |
Ethereal and episodic, sort of like an arthouse Inside Out... Technically impressive and very engaging, but emotionally I never made the extra jump. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Nov 01, 2023
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Story Ave (2023) |
Tremendous. This reminded of the great indies we got in the 1990s. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Nov 01, 2023
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The Mission (2023) |
Loved it. This is a Conradian voyage to the edge of the world, and it takes you into psychological territory I find incredibly compelling. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Nov 01, 2023
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Anatomy of a Fall (2023) |
This is an expertly made film... But if you think too much about it, the whole thing falls apart. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Nov 01, 2023
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The Re-Education of Molly Singer (2023) |
You can distract yourself from how lame it is, but it's not very good. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Oct 21, 2023
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Farewell My Concubine (1993) |
One of the greatest films I've ever seen. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Oct 21, 2023
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The Kill Room (2023) |
It so badly wants to be a Quentin Tarantino movie... It just isn't. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Oct 21, 2023
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Fair Play (2023) |
This is one of those movies where the thematics undermine the characters, where everyone just seem to be a piece on the chessboard. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Oct 21, 2023
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Man on the Run (2023) |
An unbelievably spectacular documentary. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Oct 21, 2023
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Goldfish (2022) |
It has a lot of flaws and shortcomings, but it is a brave effort in a couple of intersecting genres that I generally admire. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Oct 03, 2023
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A Day and a Half (2023) |
You think you know where all the moral dividing lines are in this car, but you don't because they keep shifting. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Oct 03, 2023
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Scout's Honor: The Secret Files of the Boy Scouts of America (2023) |
This is an incredibly well-made documentary and the subject matter is just devastating. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Oct 03, 2023
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The Good Mother (2023) |
It's a cheat, and when it gets there you feel so let down. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Oct 03, 2023
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Our Father, The Devil (2022) |
One of the best feature directorial debuts I have seen in years, maybe even this century. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Oct 03, 2023
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Fremont (2023) |
It feels like a great indie from the '90s. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Oct 03, 2023
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The Equalizer 3 (2023) |
You watch these movies for the same rush you get from a superhero film, except Denzel is not a superhero and he doesn't need to be. That makes it so much better -- he's flesh and blood. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Oct 03, 2023
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Medellin (2023) |
It's a little too bloody to be as funny as it wants to be, and it's a little too dumb to be as entertaining as it thinks it is. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jun 06, 2023
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The God Man (2023) |
It's preaching to the choir -- quite literally. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jun 06, 2023
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Padre Pio (2022) |
It's not terrible -- I just can't make sense of it. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jun 06, 2023
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Falcon Lake (2022) |
I'm kind of tepid on it... But [Charlotte Le Bon] definitely has chops. She has a great sense of visual style; I'm looking forward to her next film. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jun 06, 2023
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The Roundup: No Way Out (2023) |
We used to get this itch scratched by movies like Beverly Hills Cop. Hollywood doesn't really bring those movies anymore -- but they do in Korea! - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jun 06, 2023
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Rise (2022) |
You really don't know where it's going, and when you finally get to that place there's a sense of awe. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jun 06, 2023
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) |
My problem is with how much they're trying to do in one movie... I laughed a lot and had a lot of fun, but at 2 hours and 20 mins, I feel like they really needed to distill the story into something a little more manageable. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Jun 06, 2023
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Monica (2022) |
Pretentiously photographed, which takes away from the performances. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 18, 2023
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The Mother (2023) |
Niki Caro is such a better director than this, and that's what's so disappointing. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 18, 2023
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The Starling Girl (2023) |
It's well done. Well acted and well written, but it's still a Madame Bovary narrative. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 18, 2023
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BlackBerry (2023) |
The drama doesn't justify [the style], but once you get past that, the script is really quite good. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 18, 2023
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L'immensità (2022) |
A personal story that's well worth seeing. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 18, 2023
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Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie (2023) |
Absolutely terrific. It is both heartbreaking and inspiring at the same time, and I think that's by design. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 18, 2023
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Fool's Paradise (2023) |
Is it serious? No? Is it meaningful? No. But it's just so funny. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 18, 2023
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It Ain't Over (2022) |
A beautiful film that brought me to tears. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 18, 2023
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Hypnotic (2023) |
A thoroughly entertaining, B-grade imitation of a mediocre Christopher Nolan knockoff. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 18, 2023
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Snag (2023) |
It's a little confusing, a little too cute... It's entertaining, but not brilliant. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 17, 2023
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Freaks vs the Reich (2023) |
It's so ambitious that it winds up self-defeating. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 17, 2023
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Polite Society (2023) |
I love British comedies, I love Bollywood, and I love kung fu movies, but pack them all into one and it's like jack of all trades, master of none. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 17, 2023
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Peter Pan & Wendy (2023) |
There's too much corporate constraints on this film... I think it's time to just cut this franchise loose. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 17, 2023
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Other People's Children (2022) |
It's beautiful... It's human relationships and all these wonderful series of emotional dilemmas that everyone connects to. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 17, 2023
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R.M.N. (2022) |
[Cristian Mungiu] is such a talented filmmaker and the performances are so strong. I think it's really top-notch. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 17, 2023
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Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World (2023) |
It's a little saccharine at times... But it's really a beautiful story, and you're with it every step of the way. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 17, 2023
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Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023) |
It's absolutely wonderful... A complete artistic effort. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted May 17, 2023
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Sisu (2022) |
I've seen a lot of neo-Tarantino knockoffs. Most of them are kind of sad, but this one is amazing. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Apr 28, 2023
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Murder Mystery 2 (2023) |
It just doesn't work. Bad jokes that fall flat. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Apr 07, 2023
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Space Oddity (2022) |
It's sweet and charming, if a little lacking in dramatic punch. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Apr 07, 2023
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Rye Lane (2023) |
Two terrific performers -- their chemistry is wonderful. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Apr 07, 2023
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One Day as a Lion (2023) |
I was pleasantly surprised by this. I think it's the best thing Scott Caan's ever done. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Apr 07, 2023
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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) |
A third-tier Lord of the Rings knockoff... [The material] just doesn't lend itself to a movie. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Apr 07, 2023
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Tetris (2023) |
They're pushing the dramatization beyond what actually happened, but that said it's an awful lot of fun. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Apr 07, 2023
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Air (2023) |
An incredibly rich film. - FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
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| Posted Apr 07, 2023
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