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Robert Koehler

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Anatomy of a Fall (2023) 96% EDIT “Triet’s movie is built on the central concept of what we interpret from what we see and hear -- the cinema’s essential elements -- establishing the foundation of what we then perceive as “the truth.”” – Cineaste Magazine Feb 29, 2024 Full Review The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) 93% EDIT “The movie completely loses whatever energy it had to begin with when McDormand exits, because she was bringing the thrust and momentum of pure anger to the drama.” – Cinema Scope Feb 17, 2023 Full Review Nope (2022) 83% EDIT “This final confrontation is truly a spectacle...” – Cinema Scope Feb 16, 2023 Full Review Dual (2022) 72% EDIT “Riley Stearns’ clone-in-existential-crisis drama Dual suffers from both lazy storytelling and having been beaten to the punch on its high concept by the Mahershala Ali-starring Swan Song.” – Cinema Scope Aug 2, 2022 Full Review All That Breathes (2022) 99% EDIT “Sen takes the chaotic world on its own terms, and quietly uncovers a rich metaphor in the bird's tenacity: somehow, even in this place, life can thrive. ” – Cinema Scope Aug 2, 2022 Full Review Riotsville, USA (2022) 91% EDIT “The film's chronicle acts as a severe indictment of the country and what it owes the people it enslaved—in one form or another—since 1619...” – Cinema Scope Aug 2, 2022 Full Review The Cathedral (2022) 96% EDIT “The viewer is asked to be as observant to details, to furtive gestures and to shades of meaning, as D’Ambrose is in adapting his own family story, making The Cathedral a genuinely radical act.” – Cinema Scope Aug 2, 2022 Full Review Living (2022) 96% EDIT “Living is above all a work of dramatic writing at the highest level, as well as a master class in how to adapt—and improve!—a fine original screenplay from one cultural setting to another. ” – Cinema Scope Aug 2, 2022 Full Review Emergency (2022) 91% EDIT “Erratically structured as both thriller and comedy, Carey Williams’ Emergency has all the earmarks of being both a Jordan Peele wannabe and a calling-card project for Hollywood, and pulls off neither.” – Cinema Scope Aug 1, 2022 Full Review I'll Be Your Mirror (2022) 46% EDIT “Bradley Rust Gray’s blood surely ranked as the most notable failure of all, a lugubrious slice-of-life...” – Cinema Scope Aug 1, 2022 Full Review Ikiru (1952) 98% EDIT “Sadness, inside a story of how a single man changes the course of his remaining days, has rarely been expressed with such grace and beauty.” – Cinema Scope Aug 1, 2022 Full Review The Tsugua Diaries (2021) 78% EDIT “For this viewer, these images of nocturnal dancing are already becoming the iconic ones of the pandemic: silhouetted bodies in motion, resisting entropy and a destructive virus, fighting back the only way they know how. Working it, with joy.” – Cinema Scope Oct 8, 2021 Full Review Nomadland (2020) 93% EDIT “Nomadland the movie gets lost in its own drift, and, simply, drops off the map.” – Cinema Scope Jul 13, 2021 Full Review The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez (2007) 100% EDIT “Wide range of interviewed witnesses, legal and investigative experts is impressive, as is the depth of the pic's human portraits.” – Variety Oct 19, 2020 Full Review Out Rage '69: The Question of Equality (1995) EDIT “The closeted, forcibly hidden lives of homosexual men and women before the 1960s is briefly but powerfully documented by Arthur Dong.” – Los Angeles Times Jun 9, 2020 Full Review Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom (2008) 45% EDIT “The blandly staged film misses a great opportunity to draw insightful and memorable character portraits of the kind virtually ignored in mainstream moviemaking.” – Variety May 22, 2020 Full Review An Officer and a Spy (2019) 78% EDIT “The results are not just to thrust the past to the present, but to envelop the viewer in the thinking that defined that past.” – Cineaste Magazine May 22, 2020 Full Review Forbidden City, USA (1989) 100% EDIT “Dong's film gracefully shows how one semi-underground club brought all manner of American contradictions to the surface.” – Los Angeles Times May 1, 2020 Full Review Parasite (2019) 99% EDIT “When the history of this moment in world cinema is written, Parasite will take its place as the movie that got the moment right.” – Cineaste Magazine Feb 25, 2020 Full Review The Irishman (2019) 95% EDIT “Zaillian (and most likely Scorsese, in concert with his abiding editor Thelma Schoonmaker) structures The Irishman along three tracks of time that wind in and out of each other.” – Cinema Scope Feb 7, 2020 Full Review Mariam (2019) EDIT “This is potentially the stuff of a great movie. Mariam, however, isn't even remotely great, and at times it's far less than it should be.” – Cinema Scope Sep 8, 2019 Full Review Synonymes (2018) 87% EDIT “Mercier projects a feral intensity, a boundless energy that's frightening in its freedom, something that possibly comes from a young artist who doesn't recognize the conventional codes of movie acting, or any kind of acting” – Cinema Scope Sep 6, 2019 Full Review Instinct (2019) 80% EDIT “Instinct is a serviceable entry on the actor's resume, but, as a credible psychodrama that pits a therapist against her imprisoned patient, it does a disservice to just about everyone else.” – Cinema Scope Sep 6, 2019 Full Review Krabi, 2562 (2019) 86% EDIT “In each work, the interwoven layers of storytelling grow more complex, time signatures slip and shift, a Buddhist reality explodes in the viewer's sensibilities, and the quiet tone of the surface belies a puckish humor...” – Cinema Scope Sep 5, 2019 Full Review The Souvenir (2019) 90% EDIT “Hogg achieves a balance of aggressive stylistic tropes, expert storytelling control, and a careful courting of audience engagement that suggests a way forward for contemporary narrative cinema.” – Cinema Scope Jul 15, 2019 Full Review
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