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Sarah Vincent
Tomatometer-approved critic
Sarah G. Vincent is a freelance writer and film critic, who writes for Boston Movie News, Awards Watch, In Between Drafts, sarahgvincentviews.com and Cambridge Day. Her work has appeared in newspapers, law journals and review websites, and she has spoken on various panels and podcasts. She is originally from NYC, arrived in Cambridge in 1993 and was introduced to the world of repertory cinema while working at the Harvard Film Archives. Sarah holds an A.B. in a special concentration, History and Film Studies, at Harvard University and a J.D. at Harvard Law School. She was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 2001 and is an active member. You can follow her @vincensg on Twitter.
Movies reviews only
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Cuckoo (2024) |
The surprise lies in the perfect resolution, which packs the same cathartic emotional punch as the end of “Serenity” (2005) and is thematically satisfying in a way that fellow Neon horror film “Longlegs” did not. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Aug 11, 2024
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It Ends With Us (2024) |
If you are a fan of Hoover’s novels, then this film is a must see. For moviegoers not in the know, it will be a horror show. - InBetweenDrafts
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| Posted Aug 11, 2024
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Trap (2024) |
Trap is a roller coaster for how high Hartnett takes it, and how rapidly it plummets once he is no longer dominating the screen. It wouldn’t be a Shyamalan movie if he wasn’t so good at tripping himself up. Still, it’s an entertaining watch - InBetweenDrafts
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| Posted Aug 10, 2024
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Swan Song (2023) |
Unlike documentaries such as “Ballet 422” (2014), which offer no context and immerse viewers in the subject matter without guidance, “Swan Song” provides an accessible introduction to ballet. It is informative without being pedantic - Boston Movie News
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| Posted Aug 10, 2024
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Mickey Hardaway (2023) |
Cox consistently balances humanizing and sympathizing with monsters without excusing them—a rare gift. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Aug 10, 2024
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Dìdi (2024) |
Oscar nominee Sean Wang makes his feature directorial and writing debut with “Didi (弟弟)” (2024), a delicate, emotional coming-of-age story, which will not be a surprise to those few viewers who saw “Summertime” (2020), one of the best movies of 2020 - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Aug 10, 2024
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Sing Sing (2023) |
“Sing Sing” is not just about the redemption and resurrection of the spirit of men that society wrote off but is about not taking for granted that once saved, always saved. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Aug 10, 2024
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Kneecap (2024) |
It is fundamentally a film about an unlikely group of people making it big and finding fame, and if it worked for someone as clueless as me, someone with more interest in the group will probably adore it. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Aug 10, 2024
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Ghostlight (2024) |
There was a time when there were few television channels so there were movies made exclusively to air on television on a Sunday night, and they were amazing. If it was not for the profanity, “Ghostlight” would fit that bill. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Aug 10, 2024
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The Punishment (2022) |
No cheap melodrama here. It is a domestic drama with the urgency of a thriller. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Aug 10, 2024
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Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) |
If you enjoyed the fan service of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” (2021) and “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” (2022), then you are in for a treat, and you should stay for all the closing credits. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Aug 10, 2024
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Creatura (2023) |
People go on about how avant-garde and out there some films are, but “Creatura” is the real deal. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Aug 10, 2024
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Lullaby (2022) |
When Pedro Almodovar endorses a movie, it is worth a watch. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Aug 10, 2024
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You Have to Come and See It (2022) |
If you imbue as much, if not more, importance on friendship, the nurturing of community and the nature of becoming an adult in the twenty first century as romance, then consider “Teneis que venir a verla” an unofficial entry in the “Before” franchise. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jul 23, 2024
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Sica (2023) |
It is refreshing to have a director explore the flipside of coming-of-age stories like Catherine Hardwicke’s “Thirteen” (2003). The meandering realism of Subirana’s tale is poignant but is missing too many specifics to feel universally relatable - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jul 23, 2024
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Oddity (2024) |
While “Oddity” may be too convenient and neat for some movie lovers, after “Longlegs” (2024), it is nice to have a writer and director who clearly spent a lot of time thinking about how all the elements fit in the story. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jul 23, 2024
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Twisters (2024) |
Chung is clearly communicating a sense of pride in places that the coastal states shun. In the wrong hands, such homespun, middle America charm could feel alienating or mistakenly connote a certain political stance - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jul 23, 2024
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New Strains (2023) |
New Strains is Sleeping with the Enemy meets The Stepford Wives without the technology, obvious abuse, or movie stars. Instead of a fastidious neat freak, the husband is a performative health protocol zealot. - InBetweenDrafts
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| Posted Jul 23, 2024
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Sisi & I (2023) |
It resembles a 19th-century, rustic, chic, more joyous version of “The Devil Wears Prada” (2006) - Boston Movie News
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| Posted Jul 23, 2024
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The Blair Witch Project (1999) |
People deride the shaky camera and not seeing anything happen, which is a valid complaint, but it is also revisionist history. The lack of clarity was part of the charm of the movie. - AwardsWatch
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| Posted Jul 23, 2024
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The Vourdalak (2023) |
If you rush to the theater this weekend and head for “Longlegs” (2024), you may be disappointed, but “The Vourdalak” is a guaranteed good time with a bleak narrative, a colorful sheen and an economical ninety-minute run time. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jul 14, 2024
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Twice Colonized (2023) |
people will walk away with a better image of one twenty-first century indigenous woman, but there is a lot of talking about doing things rather than showing them being done other than debriefing about when they were done. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jul 14, 2024
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Longlegs (2024) |
The narrative neither works as a tale about demented people who like to wreak havoc in seemingly perfect homes such as the referenced Manson family nor as a supernatural story where Satan can be blamed for everything. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jul 14, 2024
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June Zero (2022) |
Paltrow deserves credit for coming up with an original idea: using Eichmann as an entry point to focus on ordinary people in extraordinary times, hash out the intersectional identities of each character and unofficially layout the inherent complications - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jul 14, 2024
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Lumina (2024) |
The aliens only provide a veneer to determine whether Alex will give the rose to Tatiana or Delilah. McKoy is a true believer in alien abductions, so it feels like another metaphorical blow that he doesn’t have a more cohesive backstory about the aliens - InBetweenDrafts
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| Posted Jul 14, 2024
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Sorry/Not Sorry (2023) |
A 90-minute run time can feel like an excruciating eternity in the wrong hands, but Mones and Suh divide their film into seven parts and keep it punchy and entertaining. It helps that everyone involved in the controversy on both sides is famous - Boston Movie News
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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MaXXXine (2024) |
There is nothing worse than a great movie with a disappointing ending. What a waste of a good time! - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jul 08, 2024
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Solo (2023) |
'Solo’ is one of the best movies released this year. It addresses common themes about bad boyfriends and mommy issues without feeling trite by setting it in a new context, a free and light queer world where the hate tree is not even visible. - Boston Movie News
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| Posted Jul 06, 2024
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Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (2023) |
“Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person” is an unexpected delight about misfits finally embracing themselves and finding joy in each other without sacrificing the innate brutality of vampires. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jul 04, 2024
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Daddio (2023) |
Daddio is a rare mature film that perhaps overrates what it offers, but still succeeds at capturing a slice of life about how two people with little to nothing in common can share a sacred moment of understanding and appreciation for each other. - InBetweenDrafts
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| Posted Jun 30, 2024
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A Quiet Place: Day One (2024) |
“A Quiet Place: Day One” is fine, but the story and special effects are beneath the cast’s capabilities. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 30, 2024
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Kinds of Kindness (2024) |
Though intellectually inventive and provocative, it does drag at times. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 30, 2024
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I Am: Celine Dion (2024) |
Even if you are completely disinterested in Dion, if you are a human being who has not found a way to achieve immortality, “I Am: Celine Dion” is still for you. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 29, 2024
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Thelma (2024) |
June Squibb is the Tom Cruise of her generation, and “Thelma” will be a new cult classic that people will enjoy for decades to come. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 29, 2024
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The Bikeriders (2023) |
The engrossing performances makes “The Bikeriders” feel fresh, but the narrative is predictable. Even for someone who has not delved into the biker gang genre, it will feel familiar. It helps that the tone turns on a dime - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 29, 2024
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The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy (1980) |
“The Cruz Brothers and Miss Malloy” is a haunting, bizarre film, which is a compliment. It depicts three brothers who are close and are arrested in development because of their past trauma, but find a way to be alive, individuals and together - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 29, 2024
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The Exorcism (2024) |
If you ever face a situation where you must choose whether to watch The Exorcism or The Pope’s Exorcist, choose the latter. - InBetweenDrafts
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| Posted Jun 28, 2024
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Janet Planet (2023) |
the movie evokes the timeless aimlessness of summer for an old soul in a kid’s body with only adults for company. Add this masterpiece to a list of must-see films if you love understated independent films. - AwardsWatch
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| Posted Jun 28, 2024
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Waiting for Dalí (2023) |
It is such a colorful and vibrant film, and the cast’s willingness to do all the heavy lifting elevates the otherwise puzzling yet predictable film that wants to use a turbulent era for the setting of a feel-good, romantic film but ends up feeling random - Boston Movie News
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| Posted Jun 28, 2024
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Treasure (2024) |
While Treasure sells a pat idea that genocidal, generational trauma can be healed in a single road trip to the scene of the crime, people do not always watch movies for realism, but as part of aspirational wishful thinking. - InBetweenDrafts
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| Posted Jun 16, 2024
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Tuesday (2023) |
The inherent tension in “Tuesday” is how can you kill someone that you love more than yourself or allow them to die. Zora’s road trip with Tuesday makes her appreciate that death is a gift—the “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” reference is intentional. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 16, 2024
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Chick Fight (2020) |
Chick Fight is also one of those movies that allegedly preaches girl power, but feels suspiciously as if it actually hates women or the idea of women is completely alien. Why do women seem to lean towards owning coffee shops - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 15, 2024
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Judas and the Black Messiah (2021) |
Kaluuya, Fishback, Thorne and Powell transcend the limitations of the script and infuse an emotional history and character development missing in the actual script. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 15, 2024
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The Devil All the Time (2020) |
please do not do a flashback of a scene that I already saw moments ago. A quick flash to remind us of what happened earlier is fine, but rewatching the entire scene feels repetitive and monotonous. It is not as if the scene was that good the first time - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 15, 2024
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Alien (1979) |
Human beings mostly die in the order of how much they acquiesced to the company without complaint, and even the robot and alien are not immune. Only the rebel, Ripley, and Jonesy, a cat who is the embodiment of a being who is never subservient, survive. - AwardsWatch
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| Posted Jun 14, 2024
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) |
The film seems to suggest that our traditional view of greatness in the contemporary US is virtually impossible, but it also democratizes what greatness can look like in a society like ours by elevating friendship, decency and good naturedness. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 14, 2024
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Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) |
It uses the Terminator franchise as a great jumping point for the shenanigans that create the momentum of the film, but it also tackles popular culture depictions of heaven and hell in counterintuitive ways that are not always played for laughs. - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 14, 2024
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The Mattachine Family (2023) |
Tortorella is such a natural that it is easy to forget that Thomas is fictional. Whether he struggles from holding back tears to just putting his head on his hand, his performance feels organic and lived in as if it were indulgent, warm comfort food - Boston Movie News
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| Posted Jun 14, 2024
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Gaga Chromatica Ball (2024) |
preferred the first half because of its cinematic quality. The prelude and first act are the most impactful and seemed to pay homage to movies. The positioning of the dancers reaching up for Gaga as she is encased seemed visually like “Metropolis” (1927) - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 14, 2024
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The Watchers (2024) |
The scenario also felt like a not to subtle dig at consumers of media. Cue Maddy from “Euphoria” asking, “Wait. Is this fucking play about us?” - Sarah G Vincent Views
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| Posted Jun 12, 2024
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