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Amy Taubin
Tomatometer-approved critic
Movies reviews only
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Uncropped (2023) |
A necessary document for anyone who cares about great journalism, and why it barely exists today. - Screen Slate
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| Posted May 14, 2024
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Seven (1995) |
It's not easy to make a great film when you're working with a tacky serial killer script, but David Fincher comes close. And if Seven isn't a great film, it is great filmmaking. - Village Voice
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| Posted Mar 28, 2024
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The Pigeon Tunnel (2023) |
Odd connections that have made exquisite corpse–like shapes in my memory bank...among the most pleasurable documentaries... - Artforum
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| Posted Jan 27, 2024
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Anatomy of a Fall (2023) |
Justine Triet’s a standout performance... - Artforum
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| Posted Jan 27, 2024
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Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros (2023) |
A four-hour sojourn in the Michelin three-star restaurant of the title... - Artforum
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| Posted Jan 27, 2024
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Poor Things (2023) |
Yorgos Lanthimos's Poor Things [is] a film as dull and overweening as all his others. - Artforum
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| Posted Jan 27, 2024
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Household Saints (1993) |
A memorable performance by Lili Taylor and an utterly transcendent ending. - Artforum
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| Posted Jan 27, 2024
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Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars (2023) |
Godard in the end has hope, however fragile... - Artforum
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| Posted Jan 27, 2024
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Green Border (2023) |
Generous as that action is, Green Border lays bare, with heartrending clarity, how solidarity is shaped... - Artforum
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| Posted Jan 27, 2024
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May December (2023) |
There’s a bit of Tennessee Williams in May December... - Artforum
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| Posted Jan 27, 2024
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Fallen Leaves (2023) |
Kaurismäki [is] a master of indirect connections between his characters and his cinematic signifiers. - Artforum
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| Posted Jan 27, 2024
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Heat (1995) |
The splendid visuals aside, Heat is a cosmically silly movie -- which doesn't make it any less entertaining. Mann manages to have his romance of obsessed masculinity and send it up too. - Village Voice
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| Posted Dec 21, 2023
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Transition (2023) |
Both absurd and courageous... - Artforum
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| Posted Jul 14, 2023
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Rule of Two Walls (2023) |
Rule of Two Walls is unhesitant in showing both pleasure and pain. - Artforum
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| Posted Jul 14, 2023
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A Strange Path (2023) |
Emotionally honest but naive about form and overly dependent on a big reveal at the end, the film made me feel very bad to no particular end. - Artforum
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| Posted Jul 14, 2023
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Cinnamon (2023) |
If there was a more entertaining movie than Bryian Keith Montgomery Jr.’s first feature, Cinnamon, well, I missed it. - Artforum
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| Posted Jul 14, 2023
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Melody of Love (2023) |
Melody of Love, a gorgeous microbudget film that turns the tables on the usual migration narrative, reflects the experience of its director, Edmundo Bejarano, and Carlos Vargas, its cinematographer and producer. - Artforum
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| Posted Jul 14, 2023
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Fremont (2023) |
Not to be missed is Babak Jalali’s coolly deadpan comedy... - Artforum
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| Posted Mar 16, 2023
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The Eight Mountains (2022) |
Interior and exterior challenges fuse and unsettle. Nothing can be resolved; only the mountains endure. - Artforum
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| Posted Mar 16, 2023
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A Thousand and One (2023) |
Energetic, emotionally rich, vividly lensed, and directed with enormous confidence... - Artforum
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| Posted Mar 16, 2023
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birth/rebirth (2023) |
Although the plotting is flat and predictable, there are compelling performances... - Artforum
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| Posted Mar 16, 2023
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The Pod Generation (2023) |
There not much more to The Pod Generation than its faltering conception. - Artforum
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| Posted Mar 16, 2023
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Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (2023) |
She is a vibrant, prickly, unpredictable presence in both private and public life, and hearing her read her own poetry is even better than reading it on the page. - Artforum
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| Posted Mar 16, 2023
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Nam June Paik: Moon is the Oldest TV (2023) |
...all they do is repeat that Paik was great because he was great. The other problem is that there is no way that archival footage can convey the intricacies... - Artforum
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| Posted Mar 16, 2023
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The Stroll (2023) |
The Stroll meanders along, trying to line up some action, and finding nothing more than half-hearted nostalgia. - Artforum
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| Posted Mar 16, 2023
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KOKOMO CITY (2023) |
[It] comprises four elegantly shot portraits of trans women sex workers. Smith is herself trans, and perhaps that’s why her subjects exhibit such clarity and candor in on-camera conversation with her. - Artforum
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| Posted Mar 16, 2023
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Passages (2023) |
...modeled on Rainer Werner Fassbinder, but without any discernible talent... - Artforum
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| Posted Mar 16, 2023
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Past Lives (2023) |
Life experience makes me judge them more harshly than do the film's director...I would have preferred not to have spent two hours with either of them. - Artforum
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| Posted Mar 16, 2023
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Mutt (2023) |
A small, tightly packed character study... - Artforum
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| Posted Mar 16, 2023
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Polite Society (2023) |
A wildly imaginative and skillful depiction of punked-out teenage girl subversion... - Artforum
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| Posted Mar 16, 2023
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Eve's Bayou (1997) |
The expressivity of the filmmaking doesn't quite measure up to the ideas and feelings that inspired Eve's Bavott. That said, this is still a wonderfully talented and intelligent film. - Village Voice
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| Posted Jan 10, 2023
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Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) |
Without a doubt, this is a film by a brilliantly talented artist with a rigorous intellect, a formal sophistication, and an emotional empathy astounding for someone her age. - Artforum
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| Posted Dec 07, 2022
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Saint Omer (2022) |
As expansive as it is claustrophobic, Saint Omer tears the heart and boggles the mind. - Artforum
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| Posted Nov 04, 2022
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The Eternal Daughter (2022) |
The miraculous thing about Swinton’s performance is that it never provokes the question of how she is doing this. Rather, it speaks to the dilemma of the mother-daughter bond—the more intimate, the more frustrated the connection. - Artforum
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| Posted Oct 31, 2022
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The Souvenir Part II (2021) |
...please spare me... - Artforum
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| Posted Oct 31, 2022
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The Souvenir (2019) |
...there is the slightly conflicted expression in Tilda Swinton’s eyes in the otherwise insufferable The Souvenir... - Artforum
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| Posted Oct 31, 2022
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The Super 8 Years (2022) |
We get much more than what we see, and yet nothing in the text seems forced or academic. - Artforum
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| Posted Oct 31, 2022
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The Inspection (2022) |
There is nothing notable about Bratton’s filmmaking, but the actors work well together, and Jeremy Pope, who plays the Bratton character, is terrific. - Artforum
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| Posted Oct 31, 2022
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Tár (2022) |
...imbecilic and carelessly racist... - Artforum
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| Posted Oct 31, 2022
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Decision to Leave (2022) |
Decision to Leave refuses the mysterious femme fatale box in which the director/writer tries to confine her by telling the story almost entirely through the eyes of the detective who falls for her. - Artforum
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| Posted Oct 31, 2022
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Corsage (2022) |
...vivacious, brilliant Vicky Krieps... - Artforum
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| Posted Oct 31, 2022
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Till (2022) |
Equally tough and restrained... - Artforum
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| Posted Oct 31, 2022
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Showing Up (2022) |
The most evocative word with which to describe Kelly Reichardt’s films is “homespun,” in the sense of something that is handmade and textured, the opposite of slick, glossy, or eye-catching. - Artforum
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| Posted Oct 31, 2022
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Ash Is Purest White (2018) |
The film is a restless journey through the political and social mainstreaming of China in the first two decades of the 21st century. - Film Comment Magazine
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| Posted Oct 06, 2022
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Paris, 13th District (2021) |
A film of criss-crossing storylines, all of them suggesting that coming-of-age narratives should not be limited to adolescents and may very well pertain to some of us until we die. - Screen Slate
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| Posted Apr 15, 2022
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All That Breathes (2022) |
Sen’s All That Breathes documents the all-consuming vocation of brothers Nadeem Shehzad and Mohammad Saud. - Artforum
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| Posted Feb 07, 2022
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The Cathedral (2022) |
I hate to label The Cathedral an experimental film (not exactly a lure for distributors), but that is the genre from which D’Ambrose has produced a hybrid unlike any other. - Artforum
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| Posted Feb 07, 2022
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Navalny (2022) |
Navalny is a sketch of a brilliant, exuberant politician and a spycraft thriller, with a tragic ending. Who could ask for more absorbing TV? - Artforum
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| Posted Feb 07, 2022
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Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (2022) |
Emma Thompson is a tour de force in Sophie Hyde’s Good Luck to You, Leo Grande... - Artforum
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| Posted Feb 07, 2022
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Resurrection (2022) |
Semans is an excellent director of actors, here not only of Hall but also of Tim Roth... - Artforum
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| Posted Feb 07, 2022
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