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Laura Miller
Laura Miller's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
Movies reviews only
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The Pigeon Tunnel (2023) |
[A] cagey, brilliant film... - Slate
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| Posted Oct 20, 2023
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Emily (2022) |
[Brontë] deserves more than this biopic’s utter lack of interest in the very thing that made her immortal. Emily is a movie about “writing” that’s forgotten how to read. - Slate
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| Posted Feb 17, 2023
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Where the Crawdads Sing (2022) |
The same ethical solipsism that enabled Owens’ past adventures abroad presides over Crawdads, and Newman’s film can’t escape it, either. - Slate
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| Posted Jul 15, 2022
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Spiderhead (2022) |
Soon... it becomes obvious that this film won’t have the courage of Saunders’ story. - Slate
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| Posted Jun 18, 2022
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Go Fish (1994) |
Completely fresh and unselfconscious. - San Francisco Examiner
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| Posted Aug 25, 2021
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The Glorias (2020) |
There are a thousand ways to thoroughly enjoy a not-especially-good film, and Julie Taymor's The Glorias offers up one of them. - Slate
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| Posted Oct 02, 2020
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Shirley (2020) |
For all its inaccuracies and elisions, Shirley really does get at its namesake's ambivalence about domesticity and marriage. - Slate
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| Posted Jun 02, 2020
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The Little Stranger (2018) |
The film just glumly proceeds. - Slate
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| Posted Aug 30, 2018
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The Handmaiden (2016) |
Both actresses deliver vivid, tender performances; they generate all the movie's fire, but they're obliged to do it inside a chilly, ritualized framework, the aesthetic equivalent of a softcore mausoleum. - Slate
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| Posted Oct 20, 2016
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Anonymous (2011) |
By attempting to weave the fancies of the Oxfordians into a coherent narrative, Anonymous does highlight the over-the-top melodrama inherent in anti-Stratfordianism itself. - Salon.com
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| Posted Oct 27, 2011
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Love and Diane (2002) |
An intimate and finely textured portrait of several messed-up lives. - Salon.com
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| Posted Apr 18, 2003
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The Safety of Objects (2001) |
Glenn Close leads a terrific ensemble cast in Rose Troche's haunting epic of suburban life, fueled by Barbie, Pop-Tarts and God's wicked sense of humor. - Salon.com
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| Posted Mar 07, 2003
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Stone Reader (2002) |
What Stone Reader offers that's new is its portrayal of reading not as a supremely civilized and soulful activity but as a lonely, thwarting and sometimes painfully embarrassing one. - Salon.com
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| Posted Feb 14, 2003
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Blade II (2002) |
Why spend $9 on the same stuff you can get for a buck or so in that greasy little vidgame pit in the theater lobby? - Salon.com
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| Posted Mar 22, 2002
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Pi (1998) |
The movie's low-budget look neatly matches the claustrophobia of Max's life, but the filmmakers have also devised some special shooting methods for certain scenes. These sequences -- breathless and jangly chases, for the most part -- look terrific. - Salon.com
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| Posted Dec 19, 2001
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Finding Forrester (2000) |
A conventional stew of overblown, bogus emotion and rigged catharsis. - Salon.com
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| Posted Jan 11, 2001
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Fargo (1996) |
The danger in portraying characters you consider significantly less interesting than yourself is that too much superiority and not enough affection can lead to a fatal snottiness. - Salon.com
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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City of Angels (1998) |
Although City of Angels sometimes dances perilously close to the line between romance and schmaltz, it never crosses it, a nifty maneuver when you consider that the story deals with both love and spirituality, two areas land-mined with cant. - Salon.com
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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The Third Man (1949) |
It seemed like the creation of a sensibility terribly old and wise, and most of all very European; it was the very essence of world-weary sophistication. - Salon.com
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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The Last Days of Disco (1998) |
The pleasures in The Last Days of Disco come when the friends rant and quarrel and sulk and circle each other with an unstable mixture of need and resentment. - Salon.com
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Shakespeare in Love (1998) |
Not even Stoppard is Shakespeare, and the end result resembles one of Neil Simon's middlebrow romps more than it does As You Like It. - Salon.com
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Rendezvous in Paris (1995) |
Rohmer proves that sometimes shriveled fruit yields the strongest juice, provided you squeeze hard enough. - Salon.com
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Mumford (1999) |
Mumford is a movie full of insightful moments, and some of them are even pure therapy. - Salon.com
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Girl 6 (1996) |
Instead of effervescent and mercurial, the movie is simply muddled. What happened? - Salon.com
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Practical Magic (1998) |
Like the rest of this new breed of witch story, it's about sisterhood instead of the supreme allure of housewifery, but like all too many witch movies (old and new), it's really just a self-congratulatory paean to banality and shrunken horizons. - Salon.com
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) |
The movie fails to live up to its promise. - Salon.com
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Lone Star (1996) |
Sayles is so alarmed at the prospect of an audience thinking for itself that he drums his interpretation into our heads like a kindergarten teacher reciting the alphabet. - Salon.com
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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Alien Resurrection (1997) |
With one hand Jeunet and Whedon have given us a thrilling new Ripley, but with the other they've taken away the lean, suspenseful plot lines that characterize the best in the Alien films. Still, the movie ends on an intriguing note. - Salon.com
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| Posted Jan 01, 2000
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