Publications list

Frieze

Frieze is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer^® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Ela Bittencourt.

Rating	Title \| Year	Author	Quote
	And Their Children After Them (2024)	Ela Bittencourt	With lush cinematography and a throbbing 1990s-rock soundtrack, this sweet yet melancholic film establishes the Boukherma brothers as passionate chroniclers of their generation’s increasing sense of socioeconomic entrapment. Posted Jan 03, 2025 Edit critic review
	Bestiaries, Herbaria, Lapidaries (2024)	Ela Bittencourt	As a whole, the film is as much a quiet condemnation of man’s extractivist attitudes as it is a cinematic dirge for humankind’s impending exit. Posted Jan 03, 2025 Edit critic review
	Babygirl (2024)	Ela Bittencourt	Highly refreshing... Kidman plays out kink scenes with a disarming mixture of vulnerability, hilarity and edginess. Posted Jan 03, 2025 Edit critic review
	The Brutalist (2024)	Ela Bittencourt	[The Brutalist] at times meandering and over-indulgent, misses the opportunity to illuminate how the architectural style emerged from the chaos and destruction of war. Nonetheless, the film is uplifted by Brody’s flinty performance. Posted Jan 03, 2025 Edit critic review
	The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography (2016)	Ela Bittencourt	Elsa Dorfman's work is ephemeral yet grand: using a giant 20" x 24" camera, that is now discontinued, Dorfman has produced some of the world's largest Polaroid images, showing that unwieldy technology does not need to be limiting when used imaginatively. Posted Aug 08, 2018 Edit critic review
	The Death of Louis XIV (2016)	Ela Bittencourt	In the final scenes,... the painterly mise-en-scene and cinematography - golden and ochre hews, Venetian reds, soft camera focus and the glowing whiteness of doctors' caftans, illumined by multiple light sources a la Vermeer - turn death into a feast. Posted Aug 08, 2018 Edit critic review
	The Human Surge (2016)	Ela Bittencourt	Williams sympathizes with his protagonists, though his film is too fluid and keen on catching the quirkiness of everyday speech and capturing languid moods to act as agitprop. Posted Aug 08, 2018 Edit critic review