Reviews
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No Time to Die
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2021-09-29
The levity of the first half is soon sorely missed, and the run length alone — the movie clocks in at just under 165 minutes — dilutes the intended emotional resonance of the final scenes; Never Say Time might have been a truer title.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Titane
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2021-09-27
In an era when nearly everything that can be done on film already has been, Titane forges something sensational from nerve and pure metal, and makes it new.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
The Many Saints of Newark
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2021-09-21
Saints can't be what Sopranos was — without the time or the ones who've been lost to tell it, fuggedaboutit. But for a hundred-something minutes, it feels close enough to coming home again.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
The Mad Women's Ball
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2021-09-17
Laurent, an actress known Stateside for movies like Inglorious Basterds and Beginners, has adapted Ball from the bestselling novel by Victoria Mas, whose facts are rooted in actual history. She shares Mas' justifiable outrage at the casual inhumanity of it all — the brutal experiments and biased theories, the rampant physical and emotional abuse — and also her sense for melodrama.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
The Guilty
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2021-09-13
Guilty, for all its wild-eyed excess, does find some blunt-force propulsion for a while, particularly if you're coming to it new. But the movie seems to mistake the taut minimalism of the original for something that needs to be goosed and adrenalized, a thriller on constant defibrillator.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2021-09-12
Comes drawn in bold, broad strokes — a fond treatment of a flawed but fascinating American icon whose revelations feel mostly cosmetic in the end.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Kate
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2021-09-09
Subtle it's not: Kate is red-meat storytelling, all broad outlines and crunched bones. But there's a visual wit and visceral energy to it that other recent efforts (the pop-feminist comic-book gloss Gunpowder Milkshake, also on Netflix, and Amazon Prime's spectacularly silly Jolt, featuring a rampaging Kate Beckinsale) struggle to find.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
King Richard
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2021-09-07
Green (who made the small, affecting 2018 indie Monsters and Men and this year's little-seen Joe Bell) hasn't reinvented the underdog wheel, but he has made something fresh out of the familiar — a smart reminder that when a story is told well it can hit all the beats we know, and still somehow surprise us.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
The Power of the Dog
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2021-09-07
Unless you're one of the few who's read Thomas Savage's 1967 book of the same name, on which the script is based, there's rarely a moment that doesn't feel racked with the queasy, thrilling promise of sudden violence or epiphany.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Belfast
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2021-09-07
Branagh's genuine affection and nostalgia for his subject suffuse the movie; if only the misty romanticism of his story could match it.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
The French Dispatch
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2021-09-04
Dispatch often feels like the filmmaker in concentrate form, both his best and worst instincts on extravagant display.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
C'mon C'mon
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2021-09-04
Another rich creation in Mills' bittersweet, gently profound collisions of art and life.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Dune
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2021-09-03
The sheer awesomeness of Villeneuve's execution — there might not be another film this year, or ever, that turns one character asking another for a glass of water into a kind of walloping psychedelic performance art — often obscures the fact that the plot is mostly prologue: a sprawling origin story with no fixed beginning or end.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
The Night House
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2021-08-26
Though the bag of tricks that Bruckner (V/H/S, The Ritual) digs through — the jump scares and shadow figures, the eerily suspended rules of gravity and physics — are familiar, he uses them to build a kind of clanging, feverish atmosphere. And British actress Hall (The Gift, Godzilla vs. Kong), tasked with carrying nearly every scene, grounds her performance in more than meat-puppet panic; her unraveling springs from genuine, furious grief.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Candyman
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2021-08-25
Who can take a reboot, sprinkle it with something new, cover it with blood and bumblebees and a pointed social commentary or two? Candyman can, at least for a little while, even if the movie doesn't really find its more-than-body-horror groove in the end.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2021-08-23
They'd be crazy not to give Meng'er Zhang, as Shang-Chi's ferociously watchable sister Xialing, her own spin-off, and Awkwafina, who spends at least a third of the movie in a fanny pack and lime-green parachute pants, polishes her sardonic slacker M.O. to a high one-liner shine.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Reminiscence
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2021-08-18
Writer-director Lisa Joy (Westworld) seems to be aiming for an Inception-style metaphysical mind-bend, with the sci-fi jolt of Minority Report and a bleak splash of Waterworld. But her intentions get lost in some cloudy marine layer in between, sunk by hammy hard-boiled dialogue and a story that leaves logic at the door.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Val
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2021-08-06
The result is undoubtedly a canny mediation on the vagaries of fame, but it feels more intimate and essential than that: a lifetime of searching and self-regard distilled, somehow, into a state of grace.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Free Guy
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2021-08-05
In a genre where winky self-awareness has become standard-issue, Free might have come off as manic and hollow; instead, it has fun having a heart.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
The Green Knight
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2021-07-29
In a way, the movie feels almost like Marvel antimatter, an auteur's willful response to whiz-bang emptiness and Infinity Stones. Knight is ultimately a tale of honor though, and a deeply moral one — inscrutable, but haunting too.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly
