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Review of Nope (2022)

By Caryn James (352) for BBC (137) on 20 Jul 2022

And as always in Peele films, clues and echoes are so detailed and carefully planted that it's hard to spot everything the first time…

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Review of Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)

By Caryn James (352) for BBC (137) on 05 Jul 2022

It's hard to create tension when the stakes are so low…

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Review of Resurrection (2022)

By Caryn James (352) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 28 Jan 2022

Writer and director Andrew Semans puts Hall in every scene of this modest but effective thriller, and she comes through with a stunning,…

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Review of Résurrection (2022)

By Caryn James (352) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 28 Jan 2022

Writer and director Andrew Semans puts Hall in every scene of this modest but effective thriller, and she comes through with a stunning,…

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Review of Resurrection (2022)

By Caryn James (352) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 28 Jan 2022

Writer and director Andrew Semans puts Hall in every scene of this modest but effective thriller, and she comes through with a stunning,…

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Review of Resurrection (2022)

By Caryn James (352) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 28 Jan 2022

Writer and director Andrew Semans puts Hall in every scene of this modest but effective thriller, and she comes through with a stunning,…

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Review of Resurrection (2022)

By Caryn James (352) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 28 Jan 2022

Writer and director Andrew Semans puts Hall in every scene of this modest but effective thriller, and she comes through with a stunning,…

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Review of You Won't Be Alone (2022)

By Caryn James (352) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 26 Jan 2022

Stolevski depicts the young creature’s journey toward humanity with sensitivity and increasing investment…

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Review of The Lost Daughter (2021)

By Caryn James (352) for BBC (137) on 06 Jan 2022

The story has its moments of suspense, especially when Nina's child wanders off from the beach…

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Review of West Side Story (2021)

By Caryn James (352) for BBC (137) on 02 Dec 2021

Full of energy, wit, passion and tragedy, looking backward and forward at once, it is one of the most moving films of the year…

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Review of The Starling (2021)

By Caryn James (352) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 12 Sep 2021

With a predictable trajectory and cringeworthy metaphors, The Starling is so slushily sentimental it makes the typical tearjerker look like…

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Review of Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021)

By Caryn James (352) for BBC (137) on 01 Jul 2021

There are great concert movies and great socio-political documentaries, but Summer of Soul combines both in one gloriously entertaining and…

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Review of Black Widow (2021)

By Caryn James (352) for BBC (137) on 29 Jun 2021

Black Widow does become typically Avengers at the end, with an overwrought, too-long action scene that plays like a festival of stunt…

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Review of Cruella (2021)

By Caryn James (352) for BBC (137) on 26 May 2021

Beavan's costumes are dazzling throughout, including Cruella's glittering red dress at the Baroness's gala…

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Review of Duty Free (2021)

By Caryn James (352) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 20 Apr 2021

Duty Free is warm, personal, beautifully structured and socially relevant as it creates a vivid portrait of its real-life heroine and the…

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Review of Malcolm & Marie (2021)

By Caryn James (352) for BBC (137) on 22 Jan 2021

Writer and director Sam Levinson, who also created the audacious and enthralling HBO series Euphoria, gives the familiar story a makeover…

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Review of Nomadland (2021)

By Caryn James (352) for BBC (137) on 17 Dec 2020

McDormand’s commanding, deeply empathetic performance holds the film together…

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Review of Rebecca (2020)

By Caryn James (352) for BBC (137) on 17 Dec 2020

This new Rebecca feels as if someone at Downton Abbey were having a bad day…

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Review of Nasrin (2020)

By Caryn James (352) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 17 Dec 2020

The documentary does not display artistic flair or innovation, but that is not its purpose…

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Review of News of the World (2020)

By Caryn James (352) for BBC (137) on 11 Dec 2020

Although the individual episodes are gripping, the plot trajectory is obvious, especially when we arrive at an ending that's easy to see…

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