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Spider-Man: Far from Home
A review by Darren Franich for Entertainment Weekly2019-06-27
Far From Home succeeds with an unusual, troubling virtue: The best parts are the most fake.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum
A review by Chris Nashawaty for Entertainment Weekly2019-05-10
I don’t mean to give the impression that John Wick 3 is anything grander than a gorgeously choreographed, gratuitously violent action movie. But as gorgeously choreographed, gratuitously violent action movies go, it’s high art.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Avengers: Endgame
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2019-04-23
The movie largely delivers, splashing its ambitious three-hour narrative across a sprawling canvas of characters, eras, and not-quite-insurmountable challenges.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Under the Silver Lake
A review by Chris Nashawaty for Entertainment Weekly2019-04-19
No matter how shaggy and self-indulgent it is, or how anticlimactic its big so-what of an ending ends up being, I was never bored. More than that, I kind of dug its sheer swing-for-the-fences insanity.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
High Life
A review by Chris Nashawaty for Entertainment Weekly2019-04-05
High Life is, at turns, gorgeous, ridiculous, and confounding. Yet, the more you wrestle with it, the more it haunts you. As for Pattinson, who commits as fully as ever, he can rest easy knowing that he’s left his audience another riddle to chew on.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Unicorn Store
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2019-04-05
The result is a candy-coated, willfully quirky wisp of a film; like a Michel Gondry fantasy dipped in glitter and rainbow sprinkles.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Ruben Brandt, Collector
A review by Chris Nashawaty for Entertainment Weekly2019-02-16
It’s a triumph of style over substance. But what style!Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Everybody Knows
A review by Chris Nashawaty for Entertainment Weekly2019-02-06
If there’s one nit to pick with Everybody Knows, it’s that Farhadi’s films, as excellent as they are, are starting to feel a bit same-y. He’s plying the same family-in-crisis formula he’s worked before. That formula still works like gangbusters, but it’s becoming a formula nonetheless: Happiness and community curdle into paranoia and suspicion.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Fyre
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2019-01-16
The movie is more than a bonfire of the inanities; it’s a shrewd indictment of a dream gone spectacularly, criminally wrong.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
And Then I Go
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2018-11-12
In quiet, often dream-like interludes that frequently burst open into scenes of brutal verbal or physical violence, director Vincent Grashaw explores what it’s like to be Edwin, so battered by anxiety and anger and a crushing sense of unfairness that he hardly sleeps at night.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Viper Club
A review by Chris Nashawaty for Entertainment Weekly2018-10-25
Viper Club is an earnest and often engaging film that’s undeniably heartfelt. It’s capital-I important and timely. But without its star’s passionate, nuanced performance, it would run the risk of being a bit generic and forgettable.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Monrovia, Indiana
A review by Chris Nashawaty for Entertainment Weekly2018-10-23
Few filmmakers can turn a mundane town council meeting about a library bench into a meditation on patriotism and civic responsibility the way Wiseman can. Let’s hope his camera continues to roll for years to come.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Loving Pablo
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2018-10-04
Escobar’s story hardly lacks for plot points, and director Fernando León de Aronaoa (Mondays in the Sun) hits them all obligingly, if broadly. What he doesn’t carve out much room for is richer character motivations or context.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Studio 54
A review by Chris Nashawaty for Entertainment Weekly2018-10-04
One of the great surprises of Matt Tyrnauer’s giddy glitterbomb of a documentary about New York’s infamously Caligulan Me Decade hot spot is discovering how much of our culture (the drugs, the music, the sexual liberation) is wrapped up in one nightclub that existed for a mere 33 months.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Love, Gilda
A review by Chris Nashawaty for Entertainment Weekly2018-09-20
Love, Gilda is penetrating, painful, and personal.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
The Children Act
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2018-08-29
Even the cast’s uniform excellence can’t quite crack Children’s outer carapace, or bring full life to Fiona’s emotional struggle as she’s forced to confront her own failings. Instead the story drifts iceberg-like toward its carefully muted conclusion, only a small part of its true scope visible above a beautiful, chilly surface.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Papillon
A review by Chris Nashawaty for Entertainment Weekly2018-08-22
As for the new Papillon, it wisely doubles down on high adventure, but it’s still as lifeless as its predecessor. Just in different ways.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Minding the Gap
A review by Chris Nashawaty for Entertainment Weekly2018-08-16
It’s heartbreaking, raw, and true. But it never veers into exploitation or becomes oppressively maudlin.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Whitney
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2018-07-05
Whitney feels like the kind of film anyone who cared at all about her should see: the fullest portrait yet — if one that will always, inevitably fall short — of a singular artist and human being who may have eluded understanding in the end, but still gave the world far more than she ever got back.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly -
Under the Tree
A review by Leah Greenblatt for Entertainment Weekly2018-07-05
By trading in all its intrigue and emotional subtleties for the gotcha moment it’s clearly been waiting for, Tree wins the battle but loses the war.Read entire review on Entertainment Weekly
