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Felicia Feaster

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I am a longtime journalist based in Atlanta and have been writing film criticism since 1994, full-time for decades at the Atlanta alternative weekly Creative Loafing and now at the online arts magazine Burnaway.org and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. I hold an undergraduate and graduate degree in film from, respectively, the University of Florida and Emory University, where my master's thesis became a book: Forbidden Fruit: The Golden Age of the Exploitation Film. My film writing has also been published in Film Quarterly, Cineaste and Charleston City Paper. I am the co-founder of the Atlanta Film Critics Circle.

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Out of the Past (1947) 87% EDIT “Bitter, cynical, fatalistic and peppered with some of the best crackling, tough-guy dialogue in the genre, Out of the Past is a consummate example of film noir made during the movement's golden age in the '40s and '50s.” – Turner Classic Movies Online Jan 7, 2026 Full Review Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022) 87% EDIT “Another feel-good warm bath of niceness set amidst the Brits, A New Era feels like a period answer to Ted Lasso, a similarly sweet confection in which simple goodness always prevails and everyone is relatively well-behaved.” – Riverfront Times May 19, 2022 Full Review Petite Maman (2021) 97% EDIT “This is not a children’s movie but one, instead, that records in exacting detail the unique perception, imagination and even the slower, more prolonged sense of time that defines how children experience the world.” – Riverfront Times May 12, 2022 Full Review No Exit (2022) 62% EDIT “No Exit’s script ladles on the usual plot twists and body horror, introducing new, grisly ways to assault flesh and bone. But the tension is lukewarm.” – Riverfront Times Apr 26, 2022 Full Review The Outfit (2022) 86% EDIT “It's largely Rylance who carries the plot on charisma and an onion-peel performance that reveals its layers as The Outfit unfolds.” – Riverfront Times Apr 26, 2022 Full Review Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) 93% EDIT “Real life adulting is the ultimate foe to be vanquished in this deliriously haywire fantasy, a cinematic tab of acid buried in a metaphysical fable.” – Riverfront Times Apr 26, 2022 Full Review Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020) 99% EDIT “Director Eliza Hittman's devastating Never Rarely Sometimes Always is a coming-of-age with a difference.” – Culturopolis Jul 23, 2021 Full Review American Psycho (2000) 68% EDIT “Graced with a smart, pathos-laden meditation on male competition and the blood-drawing ferocity of a money-centered culture, along with screenwriter Guinevere Turner, Harron does a transformative voodoo on an often repugnant source.” – Creative Loafing Feb 4, 2020 Full Review Punch-Drunk Love (2002) 79% EDIT “[T]here's very little to hold onto in this lackluster, uninspiring film with the disappointing inertness of a deflated balloon.” – Creative Loafing Feb 4, 2020 Full Review Raising Victor Vargas (2002) 96% EDIT “Few films capture how hostile and enormous the world can be for children and the defenses they create to cope, but this easygoing, lovely film does, to great, tender effect.” – Creative Loafing Feb 4, 2020 Full Review The Ten (2007) 35% EDIT “More than simply unentertaining, The Ten comes from an America of silly, laddish self-regard and hollow protest.” – Creative Loafing Feb 4, 2020 Full Review Lady Chatterley (2006) 77% EDIT “Pascale Ferran's Lady Chatterley is as exquisite and memorable for the way it burrows beneath its characters' skin, into the discrete and lonely worlds they occupy.” – Creative Loafing Feb 4, 2020 Full Review Masked and Anonymous (2003) 26% EDIT “Bloated by self-regard, Masked and Anonymous is the essence of the self-aggrandizing benefit concerts it weakly parodies.” – Creative Loafing Feb 4, 2020 Full Review Spider (2002) 84% EDIT “Cronenberg's thoroughly creepy and hypnotic film often has the texture of damp wool, his evocation of claustrophobic brooding so intense you can nearly smell the mildew.” – Creative Loafing Feb 4, 2020 Full Review Talk to Her (2002) 91% EDIT “Unfortunately, the Spanish enfant terrible's iconoclastic artistic hysteria never rises to the surface in Talk to Her.” – Creative Loafing Feb 4, 2020 Full Review Auto Focus (2002) 71% EDIT “For all its tantalizing forays into the narcotic, head-swimming loss of self and perspective in addiction, Auto Focus never quite extends its sympathy to its characters or convinces us that they are real people.” – Creative Loafing Feb 4, 2020 Full Review The Quiet American (2002) 87% EDIT “The Quiet American is an accurate if not entirely soul-quaking adaptation of Greene's style to film. It establishes such a believable atmosphere of quiet, old-fashioned gentility that when a moment of violence occurs, the carnage is even more devastating.” – Creative Loafing Feb 4, 2020 Full Review Frida (2002) 77% EDIT “The strangest of birds - a film about a Communist, bisexual, hirsute, maverick artist aimed squarely at a mainstream audience - Frida may, in fact, turn out to be more radical than it first appears.” – Creative Loafing Feb 4, 2020 Full Review Wordplay (2006) 94% EDIT “Diverting though Wordplay may be, when it moves into tournament-mode, the film suffers from the essentially undramatic nature of this solitary "sport."” – Creative Loafing Feb 4, 2020 Full Review The Twilight Samurai (2002) 99% EDIT “Twilight Samurai contains a powerful pacifist message about a hero free from the supposedly innate male taste for violence.” – Creative Loafing Feb 4, 2020 Full Review Murderball (2005) 98% EDIT “Murderball tends to buck the feel-good vibe and good guy-bad guy arc of that genre... Instead, the film depicts a more profound and lifelong battle waged between these men and the circumstance they find themselves in.” – Creative Loafing Feb 3, 2020 Full Review Everything Is Illuminated (2005) 65% EDIT “Rather than aiming to please, the film expects a certain patience on the viewer's part as it ambles and slowly shifts from an often forced quirkiness to a bone-deep melancholy. That change of tack proves worth waiting for.” – Creative Loafing Feb 3, 2020 Full Review One Hour Photo (2002) 81% EDIT “While honoring the suspense-building engine of a thriller, One Hour Photo creates a nightmare portrait of American life.” – Creative Loafing Feb 3, 2020 Full Review Birth (2004) 42% EDIT “Glazer leaves narrative threads dangling and a purposeful ambiguousness that seems less a desire to subvert Hollywood closure as a fey, fancified gesture of presumed depth on the film's part.” – Creative Loafing Feb 3, 2020 Full Review Art School Confidential (2006) 35% EDIT “Art School Confidential is as visually uninteresting as it is idea-parched.” – Creative Loafing Feb 3, 2020 Full Review
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