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Erica Abeel

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Nouvelle Vague (2025) 91% EDIT “Linklater has cast unknowns who only somewhat resemble the original figures. The lack of exactitude adds an amateurish tone. I mean that as a compliment.” – Arts Fuse Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) 81% EDIT “This is bravura filmmaking that perversely explores how much can be left out.” – Arts Fuse Oct 14, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 37% EDIT “The overkill of Hunt betrays the director’s insecurity about his ability to comment cogently on today’s culture.” – Arts Fuse Oct 3, 2025 Full Review The Secret Agent (2025) 98% EDIT “ Filho excels, working the fine edge between humor and horror.” – Arts Fuse Sep 29, 2025 Full Review The Phoenician Scheme (2025) 77% EDIT “If you can ignore the plot, it almost merits a second viewing to absorb its rollout of tableaux, like visions from a mad magician’s toy box. Or a box by Joseph Cornell. ” – Arts Fuse Jun 9, 2025 Full Review Anora (2024) 93% EDIT “Anora is no Pretty Woman. ” – Arts Fuse Oct 27, 2024 Full Review Home (2008) 93% EDIT “This original but overlong fable about a family menaced by industrial progress captures fears about a planet out of control.” – Film Journal International Mar 29, 2024 Full Review The Zone of Interest (2023) 93% EDIT “Glazer’s impeccable technique captures humanity’s capacity for evil obliquely, like a black sun you can’t stare into. Zone is an essential experience.” – Arts Fuse Oct 12, 2023 Full Review Anatomy of a Fall (2023) 96% EDIT “Triet has pulled off an impressive feat: housing a marital implosion and literary matters within the frame of a whodunit -- anchored by a new type of heroine. Fall marks the arrival of a master filmmaker.” – Arts Fuse Oct 12, 2023 Full Review Test Drive (2017) 63% EDIT “Flawed though it may be -- and why must a film be “perfect”? -- Triangle remains a welcome addition to the Östlund canon. Having picked up tidbits about his next project -- likely a demolition of the donor class -- I’m prepared to love it.” – Arts Fuse Jul 13, 2023 Full Review Triangle of Sadness (2022) 72% EDIT “Flawed though it may be -- and why must a film be “perfect”? -- Triangle remains a welcome addition to the Östlund canon. Having picked up tidbits about his next project -- likely a demolition of the donor class -- I’m prepared to love it.” – Arts Fuse Oct 14, 2022 Full Review Tár (2022) 91% EDIT “A gripping character study anchored by an astonishing turn from Blanchett.” – Arts Fuse Oct 10, 2022 Full Review Stars at Noon (2022) 63% EDIT “Now in her 70s, Denis has made a youthful film about a full-throttle, doomed romance. That’s maybe the secret of its spell; if we haven’t been there, we wish we had.” – Arts Fuse Oct 6, 2022 Full Review The Northman (2022) 90% EDIT “A rude, bloody, hyper-violent Viking saga like nothing you’ve ever seen.” – Arts Fuse Apr 27, 2022 Full Review Both Sides of the Blade (2021) 84% EDIT “I won’t reveal how it all plays out except to say that while the credits roll Denis slyly inserts a denouement both comforting and wise.” – Arts Fuse Mar 18, 2022 Full Review C'mon C'mon (2021) 94% EDIT “Phoenix is so watchable you root for him at every stage of the journey. It's also the director's craft and artistic canniness that makes this film worthwhile.” – Arts Fuse Nov 24, 2021 Full Review Red Rocket (2021) 90% EDIT “The moment the credits rolled after Red Rocket, the new film from Sean Baker, I wanted to rush home and take a shower.” – Arts Fuse Nov 4, 2021 Full Review Parallel Mothers (2021) 96% EDIT “An odd thing for a critic to say -- it's best if you suspend critical judgment of this film, and simply allow its wayward momentum to bear you along.” – Arts Fuse Oct 15, 2021 Full Review Crisis (2021) 66% EDIT “Crisis displays a sophisticated understanding of how the long, scaly tentacles of corporate power reach into unsuspected corners.” – Arts Fuse Mar 5, 2021 Full Review The World to Come (2020) 74% EDIT “The best reason to see World is the performance of Katherine Waterston as Abigail. What a magical, compelling actress.” – Arts Fuse Feb 5, 2021 Full Review Let Them All Talk (2020) 87% EDIT “It's immensely entertaining to watch these skilled performers wing it.” – Arts Fuse Dec 30, 2020 Full Review The Climb (2019) 90% EDIT “With its insights into the less inspiring byways of the male psyche, The Climb is very much a guy movie. Yet any woman who's observed a bunch of dudes huddled together and cracking open the Bud Light while watching the [NFL] will "get" this film.” – Arts Fuse Nov 12, 2020 Full Review French Exit (2020) 65% EDIT “Defiant and tonally offbeat, French Exit mirrors, in a sense, its female protagonist, who doesn't give a damn what the world thinks of her.” – Arts Fuse Oct 23, 2020 Full Review The Traitor (2019) 86% EDIT “What ultimately makes the film worth watching is its epic sweep, the deft way Bellocchio and his below-the-credits team carve out the dramatic highlights of the 20-year war with the Cosa Nostra.” – Arts Fuse Feb 15, 2020 Full Review 1917 (2019) 88% EDIT “1917 is a stupendous war movie about WWI that's quite unlike any other in the canon.” – Arts Fuse Jan 9, 2020 Full Review
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