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Christopher Orr

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Out of the Past (1947) 87% EDIT “In Out of the Past, Mitchum is an actor in the fullness of his powers, an unforgettable and supremely American combination of subtlety and commonness, an icon of cool.” – The Atlantic Jan 7, 2026 Full Review The Mole Agent (2020) 95% EDIT “What I missed in the trailer-and, honestly, one could almost miss in the film itself-is the detail that elevates it to an entirely different level of fascination: The Mole Agent is a documentary.” – Forbes Oct 22, 2020 Full Review Metropolitan (1990) 94% EDIT “Stillman sketches his characters with gentle humor, capturing not only their foibles and foolishnesses but the earnest intentions behind them.” – The Atlantic Jun 15, 2020 Full Review Sometimes Always Never (2018) 82% EDIT “For those attuned to its delicate balance of whimsy and melancholy--not to mention anyone eager to see Bill Nighy at the very top of his game--it is, by design, a magnificent trifle.” – Forbes Jun 12, 2020 Full Review The King of Staten Island (2020) 76% EDIT “While eminently enjoyable, the film has a slightly loose and lazy quality. Storylines appear and then are forgotten for long stretches. Though the elements are individually solid, the fit between them is awkward.” – Forbes Jun 12, 2020 Full Review The Vast of Night (2019) 92% EDIT “This awful moment in America, beset by sicknesses both cultural and epidemiological, is precisely the moment for The Vast of Night, the rookie feature by director Andrew Patterson.” – Forbes Jun 8, 2020 Full Review You Don't Nomi (2019) 89% EDIT “Is Showgirls a masterpiece because it contains hidden depths and meanings that were unappreciated upon its release? Or is it a masterpiece because its awfulness is so unremitting that it transcends any conception of taste or quality? How about neither?” – Forbes Jun 4, 2020 Full Review Be Like Others (2008) 100% EDIT “Unpacks a fascinating peculiarity of Iran's sexual culture wars...” – The Atlantic May 18, 2020 Full Review Love Actually (2003) 65% EDIT “The tagline for Love Actually is "The Ultimate Romantic Comedy." Perhaps. But not in the sense the producers intended.” – The Atlantic Nov 5, 2019 Full Review The Highwaymen (2019) 58% EDIT “It's hardly an insult to acknowledge that The Highwaymen is no classic on the level of Bonnie and Clyde. But it is, in its way, the perfect corrective to Penn's film.” – The Atlantic Apr 2, 2019 Full Review Isn't It Romantic (2019) 70% EDIT “We now have an official subgenre in which a woman is initially presented as unattractive; is concussed into a fantasy in which she becomes impossibly desirable; and from the experience gleans important, affirmative lessons about believing in herself.” – The Atlantic Mar 21, 2019 Full Review Everybody Knows (2018) 78% EDIT “While Farhadi is a master of the drama, his gifts are at times an awkward fit for a kidnapping thriller. It is almost as if one bought a ticket for a Liam Neeson movie and wound up instead in a Strindberg play.” – The Atlantic Mar 21, 2019 Full Review Triple Frontier (2019) 71% EDIT “Alas, just as broken clocks have their moments of accuracy, even the most gifted directors occasionally offer up disappointments. Such is the case with J.C. Chandor's fourth film, Triple Frontier.” – The Atlantic Mar 21, 2019 Full Review Never Look Away (2018) 77% EDIT “Like von Donnersmarck's 2006 debut film, The Lives of Others, (and overlooking The Tourist, a terrible English-language misfire he directed in the interim), Never Look Away is a marvel.” – The Atlantic Feb 1, 2019 Full Review Vice (2018) 64% EDIT “What is perhaps most remarkable about Bale's and Adams's performances is that they supply depth and nuance to a film whose director appears to have had no appetite for either quality.” – The Atlantic Jan 29, 2019 Full Review Mary Poppins Returns (2018) 79% EDIT “Mary Poppins Returns serves as a reminder that, for all its global scope and hegemonic ambition, Disney still has a little magic left up its sleeve.” – The Atlantic Dec 19, 2018 Full Review Roma (2018) 96% EDIT “Roma captures, as well as any film I have seen, the spirit of "magical realism," without ever hinting at the supernatural. Its magic is pure, stunning cinematic technique.” – The Atlantic Dec 19, 2018 Full Review Green Book (2018) 77% EDIT “First-rate execution can't solve all of a film's problems, but Mortensen and Ali offer a reminder that it can solve an awful lot of them.” – The Atlantic Dec 19, 2018 Full Review The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) 89% EDIT “Though the stories are individually captivating and very much worth the price of admission-see the film on a big screen if you can-they fit together awkwardly.” – The Atlantic Dec 19, 2018 Full Review Ocean's 8 (2018) 69% EDIT “As heists go, it's a moderately ingenious idea, and for the most part, the movie floats along amiably on the tide of its stars' charisma and the capable if uninspired direction of Ross, who also co-wrote the script with Olivia Milch.” – The Atlantic Jun 18, 2018 Full Review How to Talk to Girls at Parties (2017) 47% EDIT “One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.” – The Atlantic Jun 18, 2018 Full Review Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018) 69% EDIT “Best of all, the movie is different.” – The Atlantic May 15, 2018 Full Review Deadpool 2 (2018) 83% EDIT “A least as funny as the original Deadpool, and better in virtually every other respect: better plot, better villains, a few unexpected narrative swerves, and, yes, at least one genuinely moving sequence.” – The Atlantic May 15, 2018 Full Review Life of the Party (2018) 38% EDIT “Life of the Party doesn't live up to either of the nouns in its title.” – The Atlantic May 13, 2018 Full Review Avengers: Infinity War (2018) 85% EDIT “Never has the "Marvel Cinematic Universe" seemed like more of a universe, in ways both good and bad. Infinity War-the title is almost too apt-is far from a perfect movie, but it is probably close to the best movie it could have been.” – The Atlantic Apr 29, 2018 Full Review
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