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Jun 28, 2013 · The Hollywood Reporter. Features a top-notch cast, a few beautifully observed moments, and some amusingly bitchy dialogue. But its rambling, episodic structure and gallery of troubled characters will ultimately prove too off-putting to attract theatrical audiences.
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- Quo Vadis, Aida? - Director: Jasmila Žbanić. - Metascore: 97. - Runtime: 101 minutes. This Oscar-nominated Bosnian war drama takes place in 1995 and opens on the brink of a Serbian takeover.
- Summer of Soul. - Director: Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson. - Metascore: 96. - Runtime: 117 minutes. Music icon Questlove directs this uplifting documentary about the Harlem Cultural Festival of 1969, which spanned six weeks of summer.
- Rocks. - Director: Sarah Gavron. - Metascore: 96. - Runtime: 93 minutes. Bukky Bakray delivers a breakout performance as 15-year-old Olushola “Rocks” Omotoso in this British coming-of-age drama.
- Flee. - Director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen. - Metascore: 91. - Runtime: 90 minutes. Unique in more ways than one, this largely animated documentary often feels too incredible to be true.
- Licorice Pizza. Film. Comedy. What a joy Paul Thomas Anderson’s freewheeling film turned out to be. It cartwheels around the San Fernando Valley armed with all the local knowledge you’d expect (PTA, of course, grew up there), a cast of maverick characters – real (Bradley Cooper’s deranged movie exec Jon Peters) and otherwise (Sean Penn’s William Holden-like Hollywood warhorse, Jack Holden) – and a script loaded with zingers.
- Nomadland. Film. Drama. A van-dweller who drives across the US badlands and shits in a bucket is not normally what Best Picture winners are made of. But with a commanding Frances McDormand at the wheel, support from a cast of real-life nomads and indie superstar Chloé Zhao behind the camera, Nomadland was a naturalist drama that got right under the skin of late capitalist America and its disenfranchised outsiders.
- The Father. Film. Drama. Anthony Hopkins was a deserving Best Actor winner for his lead role in a dementia drama with a twist. But major props, too, to director Florian Zeller.
- The Power of the Dog. Jane Campion hadn’t made a movie since Bright Star nearly 15 years ago. As Twitter might have put it: ‘Da fuk, #Camps?!’ Her subversive western showed what we’ve all been missing: superlative control of mood, glorious widescreen vistas and a smuggled-in subtext that uses the traditional trappings of the western to strip down alpha masculinity to its faulty parts.
Six minutes is how long it took me to chuckle, outright laugh AND shed a tear while watching Ash Christian's latest quirky opus to dysfunction, the search for love and the even more vital search for self-acceptance called Petunia.
Dec 14, 2021 · From an English-language Almodóvar movie to a new cut of a years-old superhero movie, Vulture’s film critics celebrate the great cinema hits of 2021.
Feb 20, 2022 · "The Power of the Dog," "Drive My Car," and "Licorice Pizza" top IndieWire's annual critics poll of the best movies of the year.
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