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Reviews

• Jojo Rabbit

  Jojo Rabbit 2019

  

  Matt Erspamer ★★

  *Albert Brooks in Broadcast News voice* You really blew the lid off of Nazis

• Jojo Rabbit

  Jojo Rabbit 2019

  

  the_narrator ★★ 5

  Has all the wit and serious insight into Nazidom as a YouTube video called "What If Wes Anderson Directed Downfall?". I didn't despise this like some (and, having not seen…

• The Lighthouse

  The Lighthouse 2019

  

  ViewtifulJC ★★★

  Its often said that it's not what your story's about, but how its about it. The Lighthouse can be the standard bearer for the maxim, only because there's so much…

• Joker

  Joker 2019

  

  Adam Ball ★★★ 3

  To invert what Gertrude Stein said about Oakland there is some there there.

  I find the critical discourse around Joker fascinating. Anthony Lane in the New Yorker spent several pages…

• A Voluntary Year

  A Voluntary Year 2019

  

  Sean Gilman ★★★★

  Deceptively simple, I suppose, as evidenced by the fact that we argued about its various characters for at least an hour afterwards.

• Joker

  Joker 2019

  

  I.V. ★★★ 1

  Better than War Dogs. Mostly enjoyed this, though Phillips’s Scorsese-biting does not extend to brio; eventually becomes repetitive, anticlimactic, and stylistically conservative in a way its obvious influences never are.

• Marriage Story

  Marriage Story 2019

  

  Brian Tallerico ★★★★★ 3

  “Divorce is a death without a body.” Works wonderfully because of its remarkable specificity. It’s not trying to be a statement about all marriage or divorce but just this riveting…

• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

  Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 2018

  

  Carly Hildebrant ★★★★½

  i’d heard amazing things but as someone who doesn’t care about super hero films at all i’m really genuinely surprised with how much i loved this