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Lisa Schwarzbaum

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Twister (1996) 68% B EDIT “The tornado-whipped cows, houses, and tractor-trailers are a tribute to the kids in the special-effects room. But for summer-movie adrenaline junkies, this noisy thriller provides surprisingly little liftoff; we're turned on by debris.” – Entertainment Weekly Jul 16, 2024 Full Review La Haine (1995) 96% B EDIT “The result is a jittery, propulsive, slangy study of jeunes hommes in the hood, complete with a soundtrack of reggae and rap.” – Entertainment Weekly Jul 20, 2023 Full Review Lucky (2011) 15% EDIT “The concept, perilously high, is further overloaded by performances that are perilously broad, particularly from Graynor and an ill-used Ann-Margret as Ben's mother.” – Entertainment Weekly Aug 9, 2021 Full Review The Decalogue (1989) 100% A EDIT “The stories are shocking, tender, sometimes funny, with a soap-opera abundance of plot. Always, the camera stares, respectfully neutral about ordinary people grappling with the ordinary mysteries of being human.” – Entertainment Weekly May 1, 2021 Full Review Splendor in the Grass (1961) 72% B EDIT “With his ripe lips, flirty eyes, and pre-Calvin Klein-era androgynous appeal, the 24-year-old Warren is utterly believable as a boy who drives Natalie Wood plumb insane with sexual frustration in William Inge's overheated melodrama.” – Entertainment Weekly Jun 28, 2019 Full Review Don Juan DeMarco (1995) 70% A- EDIT “What a bizarro trio!” – Entertainment Weekly Mar 4, 2019 Full Review Ghetto (2002) 81% B- EDIT “Nothing is exceptional about Shanghai Ghetto, a documentary by Dana Janklowicz-Mann and Amir Mann, except the story itself.” – Entertainment Weekly Jan 29, 2019 Full Review The Portrait of a Lady (1996) 48% B- EDIT “This ain't no Merchant Ivory party, [Campion] announces from the outset. This ain't no Masterpiece Theatre disco.” – Entertainment Weekly Oct 26, 2018 Full Review Inside Out (2015) 98% EDIT “The brilliance of Inside Out... is in the gentle, almost cheery way in which it celebrates sadness as a useful, hardworking, perfectly normal, and perfectly lovable aspect of how a girl grows up.” – Refinery29 Jun 27, 2017 Full Review Applause (2009) 89% A- EDIT “[Steen] brings a thrilling emotional nakedness and an astringent, unsentimental honesty to the part.” – Entertainment Weekly Apr 7, 2016 Full Review Where to Invade Next (2015) 79% EDIT “In the more than 25 years since the bracing brashness of Roger & Me, why are Moore's documentary-making skills and aesthetic interests stuck with such an exasperating case of arrested development?” – TIME Magazine Dec 24, 2015 Full Review James White (2015) 92% EDIT “With the camera close on his expressive face, Abbott finds power in explosions of self-destruction and glimpses of vulnerable soul within the character.” – TIME Magazine Nov 12, 2015 Full Review Victoria (2015) 82% EDIT “A mad, handheld feat of propulsive movie bravado.” – TIME Magazine Oct 8, 2015 Full Review The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015) 95% EDIT “A movie of (increasingly rare) truly indie sensibility, made by women who are confident about healthy feminine resilience.” – TIME Magazine Aug 6, 2015 Full Review The Wolfpack (2015) 87% EDIT “Everything about The Wolfpack is extraordinary, beginning with the subjects of Crystal Moselle's mesmerizing documentary.” – TIME Magazine Jul 17, 2015 Full Review Spy (2015) 94% EDIT “Feig keeps his Spy machinery cranking so smoothly that nothing said or done feels as outrageous as, in fact, it is. The truth serum Spy drops into our fizzy drinks makes us feel so good that we don't even realize we've been schooled.” – TIME Magazine Jul 17, 2015 Full Review Trainwreck (2015) 84% EDIT “In the way of most Apatow films, Trainwreck is a little too long, a little too shaggy and a little too conservative in insisting that all's square in love and war.” – TIME Magazine Jul 16, 2015 Full Review Brothers in Arms (2004) 71% B- EDIT “The vets tell the truth, by any reasonable measure, and then the filmmaker stirs the elements as filmmakers always do, whether partisan or neutral.” – Entertainment Weekly May 5, 2015 Full Review Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) 25% B- EDIT “The movie Fifty Shades of Grey is considerably better written than the book. It is also sort of classy-looking, in a generic, TV-ad-for-bath-oil way.” – Entertainment Weekly Feb 10, 2015 Full Review 56 Up (2012) 98% A EDIT “We're now at 56 Up,, and with each passing calendar leap, the experience of watching has only become more soul-stirring.” – Entertainment Weekly Jan 1, 2014 Full Review Kill Your Darlings (2013) 77% EDIT “Radcliffe - hair permed into Ginsbergy college curls, full of vitality - holds the emotional center as a young artist in art and in life.” – Entertainment Weekly Sep 14, 2013 Full Review The Eel (1997) 82% A- EDIT “” – Entertainment Weekly May 23, 2013 Full Review Lore (2012) 94% B+ EDIT “This striking, slow-building drama ... uses fractured, impressionistic imagery as a mirror of moral dislocation as the children make their way through an unfamiliar landscape.” – Entertainment Weekly Feb 13, 2013 Full Review A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III (2012) 16% C EDIT “The execution ... is perilously self-absorbed ...” – Entertainment Weekly Feb 13, 2013 Full Review A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) 15% C EDIT “Die Hard 5 leaves room for McClane to make a few jokes about his thinning hair and to rue that he wasn't a better father when his kids were growing up. Oh, boo-hoo. Now go kill some more scumbags.” – Entertainment Weekly Feb 13, 2013 Full Review
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