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Eileen G'Sell

Eileen G'Sell's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Peter Hujar's Day (2025) 92% EDIT “In the past, I’ve written that Hujar’s portraits capture the “pedestrian peculiar, or the quotidian queer.” Sachs’s film equally achieves this in his own contemplative visual language.” – Hyperallergic Oct 8, 2025 Full Review Naked Ambition (2023) EDIT ““Naked Ambition” is compelling when it examines how [Bunny] Yeager’s ebullient photographic approach to female nudity was matched by her rejection of midcentury conservatism.” – Hyperallergic Sep 24, 2025 Full Review Paint Me a Road Out of Here (2024) EDIT “At best, “Paint Me a Road” indicts the evil of mass incarceration that, for more than half a century, has intensified racial and economic inequalities across the country. At worst, the film indulges in false equivalences between art and human life. ” – Hyperallergic Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Monk in Pieces (2025) 92% EDIT “For those unfamiliar with Monk (this critic included), “Monk in Pieces” serves as an apt corrective, a vibrant mosaic of her life and work that both honors her prolific output and celebrates her singular vision.” – Hyperallergic Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Riefenstahl (2024) 97% EDIT “Andres Veiel’s documentary about Leni Riefenstahl shows that aesthetics and politics are inextricably linked, and that no image is innocent when wielded by the state.” – Hyperallergic Sep 19, 2025 Full Review Obsessed with Light (2023) EDIT “Directors Sabine Krayenbühl and Zeva Oelbaum provide less an in-depth biography of the trailblazer’s life than a roving chronicle of her impact on the last 100-plus years of creative culture. ” – Hyperallergic Jan 23, 2025 Full Review My Sweet Land (2024) EDIT “"... [makes US viewers] reckon with the extent to which American ignorance — and indifference — to the conflict is a side effect of ’winning’ the Cold War."” – Hyperallergic Nov 11, 2024 Full Review There Was, There Was Not (2024) 100% EDIT “"... The women’s stories alert us to how fragile so many homelands continue to be ... [and] bring Artsakh’s history to the attention of the United States and other audiences with little or no knowledge of this embattled territory."” – Hyperallergic Nov 11, 2024 Full Review The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire (2024) 87% EDIT “Merging the filmmaking process with snippets of the protagonist's life and words, "The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire" blurs distinctions between past and present.” – Hyperallergic Oct 21, 2024 Full Review Onlookers (2023) 77% EDIT “Immersive, beguiling, and productively unsettling, "Onlookers" confronts the power of the wealthy, predominantly White and Western tourist gaze to intrude on and warp its surroundings.” – Hyperallergic Oct 21, 2024 Full Review Four Daughters (2023) 96% EDIT “Inviting viewers to consider our own histories of misogyny — whether conscious or unwitting, expressed or internalized — "Four Daughters" blurs the distance between the personal and cultural, the individual and the systemic. ” – Hyperallergic Oct 21, 2024 Full Review Problemista (2023) 85% EDIT “Fans of Torres’s whimsical comedy will find much to love in his directorial debut, which takes a fantastical approach to depicting the very real trials of immigration and creative work.” – Hyperallergic Oct 21, 2024 Full Review Swan Song (2023) 86% EDIT “The dancers we grow to know (and love) in Swan Song are sweating, swearing, soaring women, at odds with conceptions of purity and frailness. ” – Hyperallergic Oct 17, 2024 Full Review Look Into My Eyes (2024) 91% EDIT “Uninterested in proving anything definitively, this film instead asserts the complicated humanity of psychic healers, their clients, and the practice itself. ” – Hyperallergic Oct 17, 2024 Full Review Hummingbirds (2023) 100% EDIT “"The coming-of-age documentary is as full of whimsy and joy as it is packed with clear-eyed resilience."” – Hyperallergic Oct 17, 2024 Full Review Anselm (2023) 98% EDIT “Collaborative in both spirit and methodology, "Anselm" is less an homage to an individual than an intense poetic dialogue between two visionary German artists.” – Hyperallergic Jan 23, 2024 Full Review TAYLOR SWIFT | THE ERAS TOUR (2023) 98% EDIT “Is this movie going to thrill the unconverted? I doubt it. But it’s not a bad excuse to sing along and dance with glittery strangers — something I think we all could do more of for the good of our ailing species.” – Orlando Weekly Oct 16, 2023 Full Review Barbie (2023) 88% EDIT “Barbie ultimately asks what it means to be mortal, what it means to be alive — and it takes these questions seriously.” – Orlando Weekly Jul 21, 2023 Full Review Lynch/Oz (2022) 84% EDIT ““Lynch/Oz” would seem a must-see for fans of the yellow brick road or the Great Northern Hotel of “Twin Peaks.” If only.” – Hyperallergic Jul 3, 2023 Full Review Little Richard: I Am Everything (2023) 94% EDIT “Little Richard: I Am Everything honors the a-lot-ness that made him a 20th-century pioneer, while acknowledging the bumps along the trail he blazed.” – Hyperallergic Jun 26, 2023 Full Review Victim/Suspect (2023) 79% EDIT “"Victim/Suspect" exposes the extent to which women, conditioned to apologize for any inconvenience, are vulnerable to pressures to take the blame, and even serve time, for their own violent rapes.” – Hyperallergic Jun 26, 2023 Full Review Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023) 99% EDIT “It’s a soulful account of a story whose classic status is made all the more real by its resonance today. No matter your background, it’s a sweet, honest, moving movie. Period.” – Metro Times (Detroit, MI) May 3, 2023 Full Review A House Made of Splinters (2022) 97% EDIT “"A House Made of Splinters" bears witness not only to children’s ongoing trauma, but to their enduring ability to seek out and sustain their own support networks.” – Hyperallergic Mar 27, 2023 Full Review Drylongso (1998) 100% EDIT “Smith’s 1998 film exudes the DIY charm of a low-budget, first-time feature while keenly depicting the complexities of both race- and gender-related inequalities.” – Hyperallergic Mar 27, 2023 Full Review The Rules of the Game (1939) 97% EDIT “Jean Renoir’s newly restored 1939 classic proves that lawless wealth — then as now — makes a marvelous farce of us all.” – Hyperallergic Feb 17, 2023 Full Review
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