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Willa Paskin
Tomatometer-approved critic
Movies reviews only
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Hemingway & Gellhorn (2012) |
In almost every instance, the script and direction settle for the simplest, dullest explanation of its main characters' behavior, even when that's in direct contradiction of something mentioned earlier. - Salon.com
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| Posted Jun 01, 2020
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El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019) |
El Camino is a sumptuously shot, totally entertaining, somewhat needless, but sure-why-not elaboration of what has come before. - Slate
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| Posted Oct 11, 2019
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Amy Schumer: Live From the Apollo (2015) |
A pretty good set that, in this Schumer-saturated year, feels disappointing: decent, funny, inessential. - Slate
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| Posted Jul 31, 2019
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David Brent: Life on the Road (2016) |
Maudlin and unrealistic, it's also a lot less funny than what came before. - Slate
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| Posted Feb 14, 2017
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Amanda Knox (2016) |
For such a sedate film, Amanda Knox achieves a surprisingly moving climax. - Slate
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| Posted Sep 30, 2016
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Confirmation (2016) |
Confirmation is not a particularly good production, but it is gripping. - Slate
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| Posted Apr 14, 2016
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The Wiz Live! (2015) |
As much as Dorothy wants to go home, the Scarecrow needs a brain, the Tin-Man desires a heart, or the Cowardly Lion longs for a spine, NBC coveted a hit: The Wizard delivered. - Slate
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| Posted Dec 04, 2015
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The Normal Heart (2014) |
The Normal Heart is a blunt, effective instrument, a handsome, walloping cudgel that begins in gay paradise on the eve of the apocalypse: Fire Island, 1982. - Slate
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| Posted May 22, 2014
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Veronica Mars (2014) |
I don't know how much money Veronica Mars will make, or how much money it has to make to be deemed a success, but as means of fan-satisfaction it is a needle to a major vein. - Slate
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| Posted Mar 13, 2014
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Flowers in the Attic (2014) |
Flowers in the Attic acts as if it is just another life-affirming Lifetime movie about surviving terrible situations. - Slate
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| Posted Jan 16, 2014
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Clear History (2013) |
As the movie proceeds, it gains traction, first as a kind of pleasant alt-Woody Allen vehicle... and then as a well-modulated morality play. - Slate
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| Posted Aug 08, 2013
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Phil Spector (2013) |
Phil Spector is missing dramatic tension. - Salon.com
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| Posted May 22, 2013
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Behind the Candelabra (2013) |
[Soderbergh's] total avoidance of camp and his deeply sympathetic treatment of both major characters is a way... to make Liberace and Thorson people, not stereotypes. - Salon.com
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| Posted May 22, 2013
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Top of the Lake, like the best crime series, is about so much more than solving a crime. - Salon.com
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| Posted Mar 22, 2013
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