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Toy Story 4
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2019-06-20
Let’s call it a perfectly acceptable work of superfluousness.Read entire review on Time -
Wild Rose
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2019-06-20
When Rose-Lynn opens her mouth to sing–her speaking voice has a Glaswegian burr, but her singing voice is all Tennessee–you’re wheedled into forgetting her flaws and sins and wanting only the best for her and her kidsRead entire review on Time -
Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2019-06-12
It’s the most truthful movie you’ll see in 2019, because it swears on nothing but the Gospel of Bob, and in more than 50 years of singing, songwriting and much, much touring, he has never promised us anything beyond pleasure and illumination.Read entire review on Time -
Late Night
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2019-06-08
It has the wiggy energy of a workplace that might sometimes drive you crazy, but is never boring. This is a great workplace comedy about the ways in which people who seem to be holding you back can also, sometimes, be the ones pushing you forward. Crawling under your desk gets you nowhere. It also means you miss all the fun.Read entire review on Time -
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2019-06-06
This isn’t just a story about displaced communities, it’s about displaced souls, people so connected to history that they never feel quite at home in the present. Majors and Fails give fine performances here, in tune with each other but also with the pulse of the city that surrounds them.Read entire review on Time -
Always Be My Maybe
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2019-05-31
Some of the writing is sparkling. Joke for joke, there’s probably just enough to keep you laughing. But if Always Be My Maybe isn’t terrible, it’s still lackluster enough to make you feel that underserved and underrepresented audiences deserve more.Read entire review on Time -
Booksmart
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2019-05-23
Feldstein and Dever have a kind of mad, cartoon chipmunk chemistry, playing characters who know each other so well that they finish each other’s sentences and step on each other’s lines. What their friendship really needs is a little room to breathe. Booksmart is smart about that too.Read entire review on Time -
Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2019-05-22
This is a tender, rapturous film, both joyous and melancholy, a reverie for a lost past and a door that opens to myriad imagined possibilities.Read entire review on Time -
A Plague Tale: Innocence
A review for Time2019-05-21
A Plague Tale has simple stealth and crafting gameplay that’s not much to write home about. But the excellent story is the big draw here, because it’s something so rare in video games: a genuine tragedy. There are moments of light, too. The brother and sister make friends in their journey; there are jokes and adventure and joy. Hugo even collects flowers and puts them in his sister’s hair. That was all sweet and wonderful, but it never made me forget the dangers. I never forgot the rats. And I never forgot the dog.Read entire review on Time -
Observation
A review for Time2019-05-21
It’s also a short game, at about six to seven hours. But it forms a tight, thoughtful narrative woven together with simple and challenging puzzles. It’s quiet in its drama, and subtle in its horror. This is no Alien: Isolation, but fear lurks just below the surface regardless. It’s the slow-rolling mystery that makes Observation so compelling.Read entire review on Time -
Pain and Glory
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2019-05-20
Everything about Pain and Glory is awake and alive, and Almodóvar’s nerve endings become ours, too.Read entire review on Time -
Rocketman
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2019-05-18
Rocketman is magnificent and ridiculous, a feathered melanage of clichés and originality, of respectful homage and unrepentant nostalgia. Sometimes it’s comfortingly conventional; other times it’s gloriously off the charts. Even when it doesn’t quite work, it’s just so damn alive, meeting right at the intersection of the human heartbeat and the also-human love for shiny things.Read entire review on Time -
The Souvenir
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2019-05-16
Hogg has made a gorgeous, haunting movie drawn from a very real place and time.Read entire review on Time -
The Dead Don't Die
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2019-05-15
The Dead Don’t Die is better when it’s riffing on zombie heritage, or just being silly. But it’s best when Jarmusch is acknowledging, in that characteristically Jarmuschian way—half resigned, half jubilant — that the world of people, even with all their terrible flaws, is worth preservingRead entire review on Time -
Wine Country
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2019-05-09
Wine Country springs to life here and there, but there’s something dispiriting about the way these women seem to be working hard for laughs rather than just being funny.Read entire review on Time -
Long Shot
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2019-05-02
She’s (Theron) a marvelous comic actor, as at home with bawdy humor as with the brainier kind, and her timing has its own rare and specific style: her lines tend to tilt sideways, with the quiet finesse of a balsa-wood glider, before coming in for a soft but neat landing. She’s an elegant goofball, funny in an over-the-shoulder way, not an in-your-face way, and every moment spent watching her is a pleasure. Hail to the chief.Read entire review on Time -
Days Gone
A review for Time2019-04-25
I would’ve gladly dealt with choppy gameplay if it meant more horde encounters, as they were truly the highlight of Days Gone. SIE Bend Studio at least reignited my interest in zombie-fighting, a genre with little gas in the tank after years of movies, TV shows and video games dealing with the living day. Sad, then, that Days Gone saves its best moments as a kind of reward for slogging through a cliche-ridden journey across post-apocalyptic Oregon, tied to a sullen and angry hero.Read entire review on Time -
Avengers: Endgame
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2019-04-24
Avengers: Endgame isn’t a great movie, but there are flashes of greatness in it, and quite a few of them belong to Evans. His Captain America rewards us with a revelation and escapes with a secret. The best thing in Avengers: Endgame is everything he doesn’t say.Read entire review on Time -
Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
A review by Richard Corliss for Time2019-04-23
Shot in 30 days after a long rehearsal period, with the actors’ and the camera’s movements calibrated to the inch and the millisecond so the action flows smoothly, the picture has the jagged energy of a long guerrilla raid choreographed by Bob Fosse.Read entire review on Time -
Someone Great
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2019-04-19
As played by Rodriguez, Wise and Snow, these women embrace one another’s differences and help ease the way through tough times. The city is theirs for the taking, a backdrop for their raunchy jokes, furtive sexual encounters and procurement of various feel-good substances.Read entire review on Time
