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Emily Yoshida

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Sword of Trust (2019) 94% EDIT “Sword of Trust feints at being an Ideas movie, but really only wants to hang - which is certainly not a crime, but given the subject matter, and These Times, it's a little disappointing.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jul 12, 2019 Full Review Hail Satan? (2019) 96% EDIT “Lane's film asks us: Is this not only what democracy looks like, but what religion looks like?” – New York Magazine/Vulture Apr 18, 2019 Full Review Guava Island (2019) 74% EDIT “The Glover brothers and Murai have, as ever, no shortage of big questions and ideas to build their stories around...” – New York Magazine/Vulture Apr 14, 2019 Full Review Teen Spirit (2018) 73% EDIT “It's a star-is-born story that, like its protagonist, is an empty vessel: anonymous and devoid of soul perhaps in an effort to be a surface onto which anyone could project, yet dull enough that few will want to.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Apr 12, 2019 Full Review Little (2019) 46% EDIT “As many times as I tried to get onboard with its proposed brand of breezy fun, it kept kicking me off, if only because I found myself running up against the very foundation of its premise.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Apr 12, 2019 Full Review The Dirt (2019) 37% EDIT “Its own pointlessness may keep The Dirt from feeling like an actual affront to humanity, but that doesn't make it very good, either.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Mar 23, 2019 Full Review The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley (2019) 78% EDIT “Perhaps a ten-hour-long, O.J.: Made in America-style docuseries could satisfyingly address the systematic, cultural context of Elizabeth Holmes; that's not this film by a long shot.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Mar 19, 2019 Full Review Five Feet Apart (2019) 52% EDIT “Due credit... should be given to Sprouse and particularly Richardson for selling all of these reheated tropes to their full potential.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Mar 15, 2019 Full Review Booksmart (2019) 96% EDIT “Booksmart manages to be inclusive and progressive, without being precious about anything or sacrificing an ounce of humor.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Mar 14, 2019 Full Review Everybody's Everything (2019) 100% EDIT “Everybody's Everything arrives at some kind of truth about the risks and rewards of an artist with seemingly no boundaries, personal or otherwise.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Mar 11, 2019 Full Review Us (2019) 93% EDIT “Us feels like something meant to be watched over and over until the tape wears down, and we graft our own meaning and nightmares onto it.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Mar 10, 2019 Full Review The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind (2019) 86% EDIT “The film remains too mannered for its own good; it's unquestionably nice and well-intentioned, but lacking momentum.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 28, 2019 Full Review Climax (2018) 69% EDIT “Climax is the best Noé has been in ages, and perhaps the most humane film he's ever done.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 28, 2019 Full Review Fighting With My Family (2019) 93% EDIT “What makes it memorable are its funny, sad little corners of very specific humanity.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 19, 2019 Full Review What Men Want (2019) 41% EDIT “What Men Want is a wildly uneven stretch of a movie that's more of a flail than a romp.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 8, 2019 Full Review The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) 84% EDIT “The brilliance of Lord and Miller's film is the way in which, even more so than in its predecessor, the meta story informs the mini-figures' story...” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 6, 2019 Full Review Alita: Battle Angel (2019) 61% EDIT “Alita: Battle Angel is an engaging piece of thoroughly computer-generated action pop, hokey and amiable and filled with enough set pieces to never drag.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Feb 1, 2019 Full Review We Are Little Zombies (2019) 93% EDIT “A rainbow-colored scream into the abyss, Nagahisa's story of a quartet of orphaned tweens who start a chiptune rock band is as rigorous in its exploration of grief as it is stylistically exuberant...” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jan 31, 2019 Full Review The Lodge (2019) 75% EDIT “As a psychological down-is-up horror movie, The Lodge has a few solid tricks up its sleeve. But when the smoke and mirrors clear, it's ultimately a story about trauma, and a rather bleak one at that.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jan 29, 2019 Full Review Velvet Buzzsaw (2019) 61% EDIT “Velvet Buzzsaw is perhaps the first-ever art-world horror satire, but it has the feeling of a bawdy night at a mystery dinner or an anti-Establishment mummers play - and I mean this in the most complimentary way possible.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jan 28, 2019 Full Review Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) 54% EDIT “If the narrative film only exists to give us the unsettling sliminess of Efron as Bundy, it won't be a total waste. But it's not much of a movie, either.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jan 28, 2019 Full Review The Farewell (2019) 97% EDIT “The little dramas and themes that emerge during the reunion of the film's far-flung brood become, like a family, more than the sum of its individual parts, and an incredibly satisfying meal of a film.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jan 27, 2019 Full Review Late Night (2019) 80% EDIT “What makes Late Night - otherwise a largely predictable story in a familiar mold - really pop is Kaling's script, which is at the blunter and frankly more exciting spectrum of what Kaling has proven herself to be capable of in her writing career thus far.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jan 26, 2019 Full Review Honey Boy (2019) 94% EDIT “In many ways [it] resembles other films about chaotic childhoods, alcoholism, and abuse. It distinguishes itself in the manner it weaves the concerns of an actor into that trauma.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jan 26, 2019 Full Review The Kid Who Would Be King (2019) 90% EDIT “Cornish is offering a kind of movie they just don't make anymore - expansive live-action adventure tales unabashedly aimed at young people, not the adults charged with taking them to the cinema.” – New York Magazine/Vulture Jan 25, 2019 Full Review
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