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Review of The Guilty (2021)

By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 10 Sep 2021

Fuqua, like Möller before him, doesn’t really give you time to sit back and think about it…

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Review of Dune (2021)

By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 04 Sep 2021

Villeneuve’s Dune is both dazzling and frustrating, often spectacular and often slow…

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Review of The Year of the Everlasting Storm (2021)

By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 25 Aug 2021

Everlasting Storm is an anthology film that is as uneven as most anthology films, but one that offers a disquieting and essential snapshot…

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Review of Blue Bayou (2021)

By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 16 Jul 2021

The melodrama can be effective at times, and there’s an admirable urgency with which it tackles significant issues in U.S. immigration policy…

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Review of The French Dispatch (2021)

By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 12 Jul 2021

The result is hugely impressive and awfully scattershot, a wry piece of art that is always entertaining but also so excruciatingly detailed…

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Review of Flag Day (2021)

By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 12 Jul 2021

While the film sometimes struggles with disparate tones, it’s a solid, subtle drama that opts in most cases for restraint over excess…

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Review of The Velvet Underground (2021)

By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 12 Jul 2021

It’s a dark, disturbing and glorious film about a dark, disturbing and glorious band, and another sign that Haynes knows how to put music…

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Review of Val (2021)

By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 11 Jul 2021

Awkward at times and affecting at others, Val doesn’t come across as a story about acting – instead, it’s a pretty straightforward…

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Review of Val (2021)

By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 11 Jul 2021

Awkward at times and affecting at others, Val doesn’t come across as a story about acting – instead, it’s a pretty straightforward…

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Review of Annette (2021)

By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 06 Jul 2021

For better and for worse, Carax never goes for half measures and Annette never stops being bold and weird…

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Review of Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road (2021)

By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 18 Jun 2021

It effectively makes the case for the startling musical genius of Brian Wilson, using celebrity testimony and musical examples to paint a…

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Review of Charli XCX: Alone Together (2022)

By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 21 Mar 2021

While you can view the film as a companion piece to “How I’m Feeling Now” that is mostly aimed at people who love that album, it also…

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Review of Tom Petty, Somewhere You Feel Free (2021)

By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 20 Mar 2021

The old footage puts us in the studio in 1994, the new moments supply some valuable context and the ragged nature of the film eventually…

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Review of TINA (2021)

By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 09 Mar 2021

A doc that always feels a little removed from its subject, as if Turner wasn’t fully committed to going through it all again…

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Review of Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry (2021)

By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 05 Mar 2021

It’s not full of revelations about a young woman who has always been frank and open about her insecurities and mental health issues, but…

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Review of The Sparks Brothers (2021)

By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 02 Feb 2021

It’s excessive and exhausting and elusive, and entirely in keeping with the curious career of the Mael brothers…

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Review of Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2021)

By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 02 Feb 2021

Even as it concludes on those notes of sadness and grace, “Street Gang” remains appropriately celebratory and thoroughly entertaining…

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Review of In the Earth (2021)

By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 31 Jan 2021

Sure, Wheatley’s blend of assaultive high-tech gadgetry and supernatural silliness does occasional reach a kind of glorious insanity –…

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Review of How It Ends (2021)

By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 31 Jan 2021

It’s an endearing Sundance bonbon: quirky but not annoying, charming but not cloying, slight but in a good way…

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

By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 30 Jan 2021

You can come for the music and stay for the politics, or vice versa; either way, it’s a vibrant document of an inspiring event that never…

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