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Marilyn Ferdinand

Marilyn Ferdinand's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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3 Faces (2018) 98% EDIT “Although Panahi has returned to his roots with this film, his attitudes remain firmly in the present.” – AWFJ.org Jun 11, 2025 Full Review Loving Highsmith (2022) 72% EDIT “Uses archival footage, letters and diary entries, and filmed interviews with some of Highsmith's lovers and relatives to get into the mind and heart of this artist and the times during which she lived. It should be well received by fans of her work. ” – AWFJ.org Aug 29, 2022 Full Review Jazz Fest: A New Orleans Story (2022) 93% EDIT “ Excellent use of archival footage to trace the history of the festival and the city it calls home” – AWFJ.org Jul 26, 2022 Full Review Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power (2022) 69% EDIT “Shows how a male-perspective-based film vocabulary formed and hardened into accepted practice—one used even by women filmmakers. It contends that these internalized norms of film construction influence how men and women behave in the real world.” – AWFJ.org Jul 6, 2022 Full Review Petite Maman (2021) 97% EDIT “It is sheer genius for director Celine Sciamma, who also wrote the screenplay, to level the playing field by bringing mother and daughter together as peers to talk about the things that really matter to them.” – AWFJ.org Jul 2, 2022 Full Review My Love Affair with Marriage (2022) 90% EDIT “The animation is brilliant and Baumane’s acute observations of human movement and moods move us through the emotional ups and downs of a story with which most of us will be able to identify.” – AWFJ.org Jul 2, 2022 Full Review Hidden Letters (2022) 91% EDIT “In their very moving documentary, directors Violet Du Feng and Qing Zhao show how generations of Chinese women found cracks in their oppressive, patriarchal society and created a way to find a small ray of sunshine in an otherwise bleak existence.” – AWFJ.org Jul 2, 2022 Full Review Fire of Love (2022) 98% EDIT “Katia and Maurice Krafft lived most fully on the lips of the volcanoes that finally gave them the kiss of death.” – AWFJ.org Jul 2, 2022 Full Review Chasing the Blues (2017) 92% EDIT “Rosenmeyer and Conner are great foils, and Horsford, with her sweet tea and southernisms, nearly walks off with the movie.” – Chicago Reader Apr 8, 2020 Full Review Barrage (2017) 55% EDIT “Schroeder can't sustain enough tension or emotion to make the story compelling.” – Chicago Reader Oct 19, 2017 Full Review The Karadima Forest (2015) 80% EDIT “Gnecco's performance as Karadima, a callous narcissist whom many of the Chilean faithful call "the little saint," made my skin crawl.” – Chicago Reader Apr 14, 2016 Full Review From Afar (2015) 79% EDIT “Silva, in his first role, doesn't quite reach his character's core, but his impulsiveness offers a fine counterbalance to Castro's caginess.” – Chicago Reader Apr 14, 2016 Full Review Viva (2015) 80% EDIT “Sentimentality creeps into the closing scenes, undermining the film's tough-minded realism, but Breathnach and O'Halloran show a real affinity for life in Cuba.” – Chicago Reader Mar 10, 2016 Full Review The Fencer (2015) 85% EDIT “An affecting portrait of a decent man who risks his life to uphold a bond of trust with his students. Though squarely in the tradition of Dead Poets Society and The Bad News Bears, the film offers higher stakes and, consequently, a bigger payoff.” – Chicago Reader Mar 3, 2016 Full Review Avalanche (2015) EDIT “The character's underlying malaise is a byproduct of aging and the compromises and deceptions of most long-term relationships, but the superficial resolution betrays the depths of emotion Farshbaf has developed up to that point.” – Chicago Reader Feb 4, 2016 Full Review
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