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Cry Macho
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2021-09-17
The story is almost embarrassingly simple. But the picture slides by pleasantly enough like a stream in a Budd Boetticher movie, a calm place to take off your boots and set a spell as you reflect on the true meaning of manhood, the necessity of overcoming hidden heartache and the pleasures of finally, in your sunset years, succumbing to the love of a good woman.Read entire review on Time -
The Eyes of Tammy Faye
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2021-09-17
This is potentially moving dramatic stuff—or at least bracing melodramatic stuff—but Showalter’s dramatization has a glazed, glassy-eyed surface, like a Pee-wee Herman movie without any of Paul Rubens’ surreptitiously sophisticated kindergarten wit.Read entire review on Time -
The Lost Daughter
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2021-09-07
To call The Lost Daughter an assured debut is to do it a slight disservice—assurance suggests that a filmmaker knows everything going in. What we see in The Lost Daughter is something greater: the act of discovery—of the gifts actors can bring to a story, of how to hold a complex narrative together—in progress.Read entire review on Time -
Spencer
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2021-09-05
Stewart gives her all, as she always does. But she plays Diana as a mannered doe—all wrong, given that does are the most unmannered creatures on Earth. Her performance is clearly stylized, but it’s also packed with calculation and guile. Larraín turns this Diana into exactly the thing the royal family accused the real-life Diana of being, a willful and pouty constant complainer.Read entire review on Time -
Dune
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2021-09-05
Villeneuve lays it out before us without smirking or winking; his go-for-broke earnestness feels honest and clean. And the effects, while lavish, also have a tasteful, polished quality.Read entire review on Time -
Last Night in Soho
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2021-09-04
Last Night in Soho soars at the beginning, only to crash in the end. It’s a broken promise.Read entire review on Time -
The Card Counter
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2021-09-02
The Card Counter, with Isaac’s superb performance at its heart, might be the movie you didn’t know you were wishing for, coming at a time when wishing for life to restart has become a consuming preoccupation.Read entire review on Time -
The Power of the Dog
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2021-09-02
This is a movie as big as the open sky, but one where human emotions are still distinctly visible, as fine and sharp as a blade of grass.Read entire review on Time -
Parallel Mothers
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2021-09-01
Parallel Mothers is a movie of infinite tenderness, that rare ode to motherhood that acknowledges mothers as women first and mothers second.Read entire review on Time -
Candyman
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2021-08-31
Candyman is a work held together by thoughtful choices, and it has a lot to say. Genre conventions are themselves like urban legends, a framework that each new generation adds to and builds upon. Candyman is just one reason we continue to believe in them.Read entire review on Time -
The Night House
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2021-08-20
Hall strives to carry The Night House on her more-than-capable shoulders, but she can’t quite compensate for the moments when the movie is outright silly or, worse, boring.Read entire review on Time -
Beckett
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2021-08-16
There is no sadder genre than the tedious thriller, a movie that works hard to entice us with suspense, rough and tumble action, maybe even alluring locales, only to fizzle out far from the finish line.Read entire review on Time -
Free Guy
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2021-08-13
Free Guy is a little like Ready Player One jumbled with The Truman Show, with some Sleeping Beauty and The Velveteen Rabbit mixed in. It is, admittedly, a lot of movie, probably too much. But Reynolds makes the most of Guy’s elation at finally busting out.Read entire review on Time -
Respect
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2021-08-12
Respect honors the utilitarian nature of songwriting, and of making art in general. But the movie honors subtler elements of Franklin’s nature, too—as much as we can know of it—most notably her guardedness, born of necessity.Read entire review on Time -
Annette
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2021-08-06
Annette is an extravagant-looking and often inventive film, but it’s not a great one.Read entire review on Time -
Stillwater
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2021-07-29
The story becomes unpleasantly bitter and asks us to buy certain behaviors that don’t make much sense, and that we’re not quite sure a character would be capable of. Yet even after the movie makes that sharp zigzag, its one constant is Damon, who’s turning out to be one of those great, casual American actors we didn’t know we had anymore.Read entire review on Time -
The Green Knight
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2021-07-26
Lowery (A Ghost Story, The Old Man & the Gun), in addition to fleshing out the story, puts his stamp all over it so confidently that the results could be annoying, if they weren’t so enchanting.Read entire review on Time -
Val
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2021-07-23
Val is a portrait of an actor who poured his all into his work. Only now can he see what it amounts to, and find some vindication in the truth that it was worth defending all along.Read entire review on Time -
Last Letter from Your Lover
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2021-07-22
Even when the story falters, or becomes astonishingly silly, there’s still plenty to keep you gazing at the surface.Read entire review on Time -
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
A review by Stephanie Zacharek for Time2021-07-19
Roadrunner is lively, comprehensive, moving and troubling, as well as suitably joyous, capturing everything about why viewers loved Bourdain, while also reminding us that even those very close to him couldn’t always fully understand him.Read entire review on Time
