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Compared with other Romanian films, many awarded at film festivals, Famous Paparazzo does not try to be philosophical and to impose a thesis. It is only current life in a tumultuous society, at ten years after what is known as the Romanian Revolution.
- Siddhant Adlakha (@Sidizenkane), Freelance For The Village Voice and /Film
- Carlos Aguilar (@Carlos_Film), Freelance For Remezcla
- Ken Bakely (@Kbake_99), Freelance For Film Pulse
- Christian Blauvelt (@Ctblauvelt), BBC Culture
- Richard Brody (@Tnyfrontrow), The New Yorker
- Deany Hendrick Cheng (@Deandricklamar), Freelance For Barber’s Chair Digital
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- Alonso Duralde (@Aduralde), The Wrap
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Let’s cut right to the chase. Christopher Nolan is probably my favourite working director, and going five thousand words deep on his careerafter “Dunkirk” was an itch I’d been waiting to scratch for nearly a decade. “The Dark Knight” was my dorm-room poster movie — I’m part of the generation that explored films through the IMDb Top 250 growing up —...
At the 2017 Sundance premiere of Miguel Arteta’s “Beatriz at Dinner,”starring Salma Hayek, I found myself in shock at the reactions I heard from the mostly-white audience at the Eccles Theatre. I was watching a different movie, one that spoke to me as an immigrant, a Latino, and someone who’s felt out of place in spaces dominated by people who’ve n...
Like many writers, I tend to subconsciously disown anything I’ve written more than a few months ago, so I read this question, in practice, as what’s my favorite thing I’ve written recently. On that front, I’d say that the review of “Phantom Thread”that I wrote over at my blog comes the closest to what I most desire to do as a critic. I try to think...
I don’t know if it’s my best work, but a landmark in my life as a critic was surely a review of Chaplin’s “The Circus,” in time for the release of its restoration in 2010. I cherish this piece, written for Slant Magazine, for a number of reasons. For one, I felt deeply honored to shed more light on probably the least known and least respected of Ch...
No way would I dare to recommend any pieces of my own, but I don’t mind mentioning a part of my work that I do with special enthusiasm. Criticism, I think, is more than the three A’s (advocacy, analysis, assessment); it’s prophetic, seeing the future of the art from the movies that are on hand. Yet many of the most forward-looking, possibility-expa...
It’s a piece on two of my favorite films of 2017, “Lady Bird” and “Call Me By Your Name”,and about how their very different modes of storytelling speak to the different sorts of stories we tell ourselves. Objectively, I don’t know if this is my best work in terms of pure style and craft, but I do think it’s the most emblematic in terms of what I va...
My favorite piece of my own work is definitely “The Shape of Water’s” Strickland as the “Ur-American.”I’m proud of it because it required me to really take stock of all the things that Americans are taught from birth to take as given. That meant looking at our history of colonialism, imperialism, racism, anticommunism and really diving into how all...
This is tricky, but “Annihilation” is definitely my favorite piece of film criticism that I’ve written. My writing style is a combination of criticism and gifs, and sometimes the words are better than the gifs, and the gifs are better than the words. With “Annihilation,” I thought the balance was perfect. My favorite portion: “Lena is just an idea,...
I’m the worst judge of my own material; there’s almost nothing I’ve ever written that I don’t want to pick at and re-edit, no matter how much time has passed. But since, for me, the hardest part of film criticism is adequately praising a movie you truly love, then by default my best review would probably be of one of my favorite films of all time, ...
I can’t summon the strength to re-read it, but I remember thinking that my piece on grief and “Personal Shopper”was emblematic of how I hope to thread individual perspective into arts criticism.
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- Joe After the Show – and a New Perspective in Soul. In Pixar's Soul, Joe Gardner (Jamie Foxx) is a middle school band teacher who wants nothing more than to be professional jazz musician.
- Ruben is Asked to Leave the House in Sound of Metal. Here it is. The most emotionally devastating movie moment of 2020. Sound of Metal follows Ruben (Riz Ahmed), a musician who loses his hearing and finds himself forced to reckon with a life utterly unlike the one he used to live.
- The Restaurant Scene in The Invisible Man. This is the scene that takes The Invisible Man from a very good movie to a great one. Everything up to this point in Leigh Whannell's brilliant #MeToo horror movie works like gangbusters, but it's this scene in particular that solidifies the amazing work Whannell is doing.
- Fern Glues Her Broken Plates Back Together in Nomadland. Fern (Frances McDormand) is a middle-aged woman who, after losing her husband and her job thanks to the economic crisis, lives her life out of her van, driving around the country from job to job.
Aug 1, 2018 · The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012) – On the top of the boat Even though it is usually considered best suited for spectacle-driven films, Paul Thomas Anderson opted to shoot 2012’s “The Master” in 65mm, demonstrating that the richness of the format “can work just as well for intimate and character-driven stories” as FotoKem’s ...
- Small Axe: Lovers Rock. - Metascore: 95. - Reviews: 25. This installment of Steve McQueen’s “Small Axe” anthology tells the story of two young lovers (played by Michael Ward and Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn) who meet and fall in love over the course of a 1980s West London reggae party.
- Collective. - Metascore: 95. - Reviews: 23. “Collective” follows several Romanian journalists as they expose the secret health care fraud behind a 2015 Bucharest nightclub fire that claimed multiple lives.
- David Byrne’s American Utopia. - Metascore: 93. - Reviews: 26. Filmmaker Spike Lee directed this recorded version of beloved musician David Byrne’s Broadway show of the same name.
- Never Rarely Sometimes Always. - Metascore: 91. - Reviews: 34. In “Never Rarely Sometimes Always,” Pennsylvania teenager Autumn heads on a treacherous journey to New York City with her cousin Skylar to receive an abortion.
Dec 13, 2020 · The Ten Best Films of 2020. It certainly wasn’t a typical year for, well, anything, including movies. As Hollywood packed up shop and pushed a lot of their projects to 2021 or streaming services, questions arose about how to critically assess such an unusual time for cinema.
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