Amy Taubin

Amy Taubin Village Voice Aug 25, 2026 ...James Merendino’s SLC Punk! strikes a brighter chord than the immortal Sid and Nancy, and although fresh and endearing are hardly words you associate with punk, the film doesn’t feel like a cop-out until the very end. Go to Full Review SLC Punk (1999) 65% 89%

Amy Taubin Screen Slate Jul 7, 2026 There’s an ambiguity present in the morality of the act, keeping the viewer’s intrigue engaged with the humanity of the victims themselves over an easy condemnation of their murder. Go to Full Review A Judgment in Stone (1995) 94% 87%

Amy Taubin Village Voice Feb 26, 2026 So totally vacuumed of politics and history that a stray reference to "President Nixon" is totally disorienting. If Forrest Gump was right-wing revisionist history, then Apollo 13 represses history entirely. Go to Full Review Apollo 13 (1995) 92% 87%

Amy Taubin Village Voice Jul 28, 2025 Waterworld is a noisy, overbearing movie. Go to Full Review Waterworld (1995) 61% 43%

Amy Taubin Village Voice Sep 22, 2024 Apocalypse has the expressive extravagance of a Wagner opera-and not merely because the swooping helicopter scene is set to the "Ride of the Valkyries." Go to Full Review Apocalypse Now Redux (1979) 93% 91%

Amy Taubin Screen Slate May 14, 2024 A necessary document for anyone who cares about great journalism, and why it barely exists today. Go to Full Review Uncropped (2023) 90% - -

Amy Taubin Village Voice Mar 28, 2024 It's not easy to make a great film when you're working with a tacky serial killer script, but David Fincher comes close. And if Seven isn't a great film, it is great filmmaking. Go to Full Review Seven (1995) 84% 95%

Amy Taubin Artforum Jan 27, 2024 Odd connections that have made exquisite corpse–like shapes in my memory bank...among the most pleasurable documentaries... Go to Full Review The Pigeon Tunnel (2023) 96% 72%

Amy Taubin Artforum Jan 27, 2024 Justine Triet’s a standout performance... Go to Full Review Anatomy of a Fall (2023) 96% 90%

Amy Taubin Artforum Jan 27, 2024 A four-hour sojourn in the Michelin three-star restaurant of the title... Go to Full Review Menus-Plaisirs Les Troisgros (2023) 100% 83%

Amy Taubin Artforum Jan 27, 2024 Yorgos Lanthimos's Poor Things [is] a film as dull and overweening as all his others. Go to Full Review Poor Things (2023) 92% - -

Amy Taubin Artforum Jan 27, 2024 A memorable performance by Lili Taylor and an utterly transcendent ending. Go to Full Review Household Saints (1993) 72% - -

Amy Taubin Artforum Jan 27, 2024 Godard in the end has hope, however fragile... Go to Full Review Trailer of the Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars (2023) - - - -

Amy Taubin Artforum Jan 27, 2024 Generous as that action is, Green Border lays bare, with heartrending clarity, how solidarity is shaped... Go to Full Review Green Border (2023) 94% - -

Amy Taubin Artforum Jan 27, 2024 There’s a bit of Tennessee Williams in May December... Go to Full Review May December (2023) 91% 68%

Amy Taubin Artforum Jan 27, 2024 Kaurismäki [is] a master of indirect connections between his characters and his cinematic signifiers. Go to Full Review Fallen Leaves (2023) 97% 51%

Amy Taubin Village Voice Dec 21, 2023 The splendid visuals aside, Heat is a cosmically silly movie -- which doesn't make it any less entertaining. Mann manages to have his romance of obsessed masculinity and send it up too. Go to Full Review Heat (1995) 84% 94%

Amy Taubin Artforum Jul 14, 2023 Both absurd and courageous... Go to Full Review Transition (2023) 100% - -

Amy Taubin Artforum Jul 14, 2023 Rule of Two Walls is unhesitant in showing both pleasure and pain. Go to Full Review Rule of Two Walls (2023) 100% - -

Amy Taubin Artforum Jul 14, 2023 Emotionally honest but naive about form and overly dependent on a big reveal at the end, the film made me feel very bad to no particular end. Go to Full Review A Strange Path (2023) 80% - -