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Ed Frankl

Film Critic

United States

Me Captain (2023)

Publish Date: September 28, 2023
"Steered by Sarr in a spellbinding performance, this is a mesmerizing watch, running the gamut of positive idealism at the film's opening to clinging on to the vestiges of hope at the finale"

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Thunder (2022)

Publish Date: September 24, 2022
"A rich and moving story about faith and the power that individual responses to it can provoke."

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Sparta (2022)

Publish Date: September 19, 2022
"The juxtaposition of stories doesn't really work, and Seidl rather falls back on allowing the film to revel in a tone of malaise without raising any significant tension"

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A Chiara (2021)

Publish Date: July 23, 2021
"There’s so much naturalism to Carpignano’s direction that it’s easy to imagine this might be some reconstruction of real events (...) 'A Chiara' is told in a wonderfully fluid and poetic fashion"

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Cow (2021)

Publish Date: July 19, 2021
"Despite a lo-fi, handheld-camera cragginess, it still has something of the lyricism that marks so much of her work"

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Where Is Anne Frank (2021)

Publish Date: July 19, 2021
"Making a children's film about the Holocaust is a brave and commendable ambition, but the horrors of the Nazi era are so harrowing that the message at the center of Folman's film feels trite"

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The Worst Person in the World (2021)

Publish Date: July 9, 2021
"Its ruminations on grief are moving (...) A startlingly observant, sharp, romantic, provocative, and poignant view of millennial culture and how life comes at you fast"

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For Lucio (2021)

Publish Date: March 8, 2021
"It may be brief at 78 minutes, but this is a rewarding film"

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I'm Your Man (2021)

Publish Date: March 3, 2021
"Unfortunately the narrative twists and turns of Schrader’s film could’ve been predicted from the first frames. Still, it would be churlish not to report that there are some laughs and profound moments to be discovered here."

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All the Dead Ones (2020)

Publish Date: February 24, 2020
"An accomplished film (...) rich in the nation’s poetry and music, daring in highlighting women’s voices while commenting on Brazil’s history of inequality of wealth, class, and race."

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An Easy Girl (2019)

Publish Date: May 22, 2019
"A film about sun, sex and pleasure, with some brains under its sultry skin."

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Pain and Glory (2019)

Publish Date: May 17, 2019
"At times, 'Pain and Glory' feels distant, controlled, unwilling to show emotional its hand. By its close it’s a film that clings onto your heartstrings and doesn’t let go."

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Vision (2018)

Publish Date: September 30, 2018
"'Vision' is full of fine camerawork and lush cinematography, but its failure to connect the spiritual and the intellectual make for a punishingly silly final act."

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