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Gerald Peary
Tomatometer-approved critic
Movies reviews only
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Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story (2024) |
A far too worshipful saga of Liza Minnelli, which title, like its hero, is way over the top: Liza: a Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Jun 25, 2024
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Merchant Ivory (2023) |
[An] affectionate portrait of the directing-producing team behind Room With a View (1985), Howard’s End (1992), Remains of the Day (1993), and many other classy, intelligent costume pictures. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Jun 25, 2024
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Luther: Never Too Much (2024) |
Good, not great, better on showcasing Vandross’s lovely singing than telling his life. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Jun 25, 2024
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Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story (2023) |
I saw documentaries, the majority of them excellent, about gay men, a maybe gay man, a bi woman, and a wobbly straight woman who is the ultimate gay icon. My very favorite of the bunch was Mad About the Boy: the Noel Coward Story - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Jun 25, 2024
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We Strangers (2024) |
It’s far and away the Best Film of 2024, superior to anything that has come out of Hollywood. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Jun 25, 2024
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Evil Does Not Exist (2023) |
Despite the artsy style, the narrative is missing the ambiguities and complexities of a high-level art-house movie. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted May 15, 2024
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The Beast (2023) |
Who would predict that this perfectly calibrated tale would be yanked out of its early 20th century setting and become dystopian science-fiction? - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Apr 12, 2024
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Mad Props (2024) |
[A] sweet, amusing documentary. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Mar 27, 2024
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How to Have Sex (2023) |
Has there ever been a better or more accurate film about young girls on the edge of adulthood? - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Feb 16, 2024
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American Fiction (2023) |
All is OK with Jeffrey Wright. The protean actor, balding with a beard and glasses, is properly fussy and abrasive and perennially dissatisfied as “Monk” Ellison. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Dec 14, 2023
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Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros (2023) |
The greatest fun of this documentary is, of course, hanging out in the kitchen -- a large, expansive one with long windows that open onto country greenery -- and being round about for all the amazing cooking. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Dec 06, 2023
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White Line Fever (1975) |
This is what the movie is finally about: bodies leaping upon each other, kicking and kneeing, trucks pushing other vehicles off the road, and nothing motivated. - Cineaste Magazine
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| Posted Oct 03, 2023
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Passages (2023) |
An unpleasant saga...with the most dubious scene of 2023... - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Jul 14, 2023
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Theater Camp (2023) |
A woefully thin and unfunny comedy... - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Jul 14, 2023
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Indigo Girls: It's Only Life After All (2023) |
A frank, up-close portrait... - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Jul 14, 2023
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KOKOMO CITY (2023) |
How many stories can there be? Probably none as forthright, raw, and X-rated honest as D. Smith’s Kokomo City. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Jul 14, 2023
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Fairyland (2023) |
Who couldn’t be moved by Andrew Durham’s Fairyland? - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Jul 14, 2023
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Cora Bora (2023) |
Rousing, rowdy, funny... - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Jul 14, 2023
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Mamacruz (2023) |
An enjoyable film from Spain about an elderly church-going lady with a dead sensual life and a comatose husband. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Jul 14, 2023
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Big Boys (2023) |
Its greatest strength is the very simple, straightforward way the story is told, showcasing the excellent, sympathetic ensemble of young actors. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Jul 14, 2023
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In the Company of Rose (2022) |
The secret to Rose Styron’s longevity besides excellent genes? Probably, for good or bad, it’s her extraordinary steely stoicism. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Jun 30, 2023
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The Taking (2021) |
Most of this documentary is so beautiful the temptation is to switch off the preachy, didactic soundtrack and just watch and watch... - Arts Fuse
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| Posted May 24, 2023
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Out and About (2022) |
I commend Callahan for having the guts to enthrall an audience with a virtually plotless movie. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted May 12, 2023
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Little Richard: I Am Everything (2023) |
Lisa Cortes’s Little Richard: I Am Everything is the documentary about the Black and Queer rock ’n’ roll icon that we’ve been awaiting. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Apr 14, 2023
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Meeting the Man: James Baldwin in Paris (1970) |
Lots of this film is howlingly funny, certainly not the intention of Terence Dixon, the clueless-beyond-clueless white British director. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Mar 24, 2023
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Baldwin's N... (1968) |
Made by Horace Ové, a pioneering British director of color, this is a clearly sympathetic showing of Baldwin delivering an angry, militant talk to a room of left-wing students from Jamaica and other islands who had emigrated to England. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Mar 24, 2023
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The Menu (2022) |
The Menu serves up a ghoulish and madly entertaining two hours of prime cinema. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Nov 30, 2022
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God's Country (2022) |
Thandiwe Newton [is] superb as Sandra. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Oct 06, 2022
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A Love Song (2022) |
It’s consciously pensive, slow-moving, character-driven, humanist, and deeply ecological. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Aug 11, 2022
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Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story (2022) |
With Jazz Fest, we get dangerously close at times to an infomercial. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Jun 02, 2022
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Ivan & Alexandra (1989) |
There could be no gentler, friendlier introduction to the Bulgarian cinema than veteran director Ivan Nitschev’s childhood memoir of life under Stalin. - Chicago Reader
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| Posted May 11, 2022
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The Will to See (2022) |
Again and again, we are taken in The Will to See to places where regular reporters never venture, and certainly not filmgoers. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted May 11, 2022
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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent (2022) |
There’s the first two thirds of the movie to cherish, and a genuine Nicolas Cage comeback to heartily cheer. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Apr 27, 2022
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West Side Story (2021) |
Spielberg's West Side Story is fairly entertaining, fairly decent, but that's about it. Should it have been remade? I see no reason at all. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Dec 09, 2021
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Bergman Island (2021) |
Definitely frustrating, a disappointment. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Oct 21, 2021
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The Green Knight (2021) |
I cheer on Lowery's luminous time-traveling. Pure cinema poetry. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Aug 13, 2021
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A Reckoning in Boston (2020) |
A Reckoning in Boston demonstrates that fifty years after the bussing-era failures to improve the lives of Black people, there is, in Rutenbeck's telling words, "No justice, no truth, no reconciliation." - Arts Fuse
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| Posted May 17, 2021
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The Inheritance (2020) |
The film is a virtuoso display of Asili's talents, as he wrote, directed, edited, did the inventive 16mm camerawork, and provided the extraordinary production design. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Mar 26, 2021
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Epicentro (2020) |
Acting as his own cinematographer in Havana, Sauper ventures off the tourist track with his camera. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Jan 22, 2021
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Martin Eden (2019) |
In his mostly successful filmic adaptation of Martin Eden, Italian director Pietro Marcello transposes with ease London's Oakland novel to the seaport of Naples. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Oct 23, 2020
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Save Yourselves! (2020) |
[An] unpretentious little film which is a model of enterprising low-budget moviemaking, utilizing a restricted number of settings and being mostly a two-hander featuring two casually winning young actors, - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Oct 08, 2020
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An Easy Girl (2019) |
Airly [and] beguiling... - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Aug 28, 2020
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Flannery (2019) |
[Though] its many virtues, Flannery isn't the perfect film biography... - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Jul 20, 2020
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Family Romance, LLC (2019) |
Family Romance, LLC is a wrong-headed, inferior Herzog movie. Wake up, Werner! Oh, for a jolt of Klaus Kinski. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Jul 14, 2020
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A Love in Germany (1983) |
Stani is passive, bland and maddeningly apolitical, and Paulina, reckless with erotic desire, is too cool to show heartfelt emotion. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Mar 24, 2020
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Color Out of Space (2019) |
All in all, The Color Out of Space is only OK. - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Feb 07, 2020
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Old Enough (1984) |
Silver's first feature is vastly entertaining and an impressive debut. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Jan 23, 2020
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Anne Trister (1986) |
Many will recognize their own internal struggles in Anne's psychodramatic journey. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Oct 04, 2019
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Sitting in Limbo (1986) |
Limbo's insights and the instinctive performances of its cast make it one of the most genuinely likable Canadian films in recent memory. - Maclean's Magazine
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| Posted Oct 04, 2019
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Sorry We Missed You (2019) |
Debbie Honeywood, a non-actress whom Loach cast as the mom, is so endearing and heart-breaking I'm giving her an Oscar right now! - Arts Fuse
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| Posted Oct 04, 2019
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