Deborah Krieger

Deborah Krieger Bust Magazine Jul 2, 2021 It does feature an appealing lead performance from Slate, and is earnest and honest in its largely successful attempt to translate creative thinking onto the screen in equally creative ways. Go to Full Review The Sunlit Night (2019) 31% 60%

Deborah Krieger MovieJawn Aug 20, 2020 African Violet tangles these three tight and tense knots of characters together in ways that reveal the lengths to which we all perform different roles in different areas of life-and are different versions of ourselves around different people. Go to Full Review African Violet (2020) 100% - -

Deborah Krieger MovieJawn Jan 3, 2020 There's a curious disconnect between these roundabout ways we learn about Merce Cunningham, the man, and the development of his idiosyncratic dance and choreography techniques, and the fluidity with which the actual restagings of his works are presented. Go to Full Review Cunningham (2019) 89% 71%

Deborah Krieger Bust Magazine Sep 27, 2019 Pause is not an easy or a pleasant film to watch, but it does have individual moments and sequences that are simply transfixing, as well as a strong, well-defined painterly aesthetic. Go to Full Review Pause (2018) 100% 40%

Deborah Krieger Bust Magazine Aug 15, 2019 The Art of Self-Defense pulls no punches. Go to Full Review The Art of Self-Defense (2019) 83% 63%

Deborah Krieger MovieJawn Jul 22, 2019 It's just these little touches of maximum effort (oops, wrong Ryan Reynolds movie!) that make Detective Pikachu as strong as it is-that, and, of course, Ryan Reynolds' energetic, generous voice acting. Go to Full Review Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019) 68% 81%

Deborah Krieger Bust Magazine Jun 28, 2019 Red Joan itself is reportedly based on the story of Melita Norwood, who passed the Soviets' information on the West's nuclear development. Sadly, Norwood's Wikipedia page is more of a thrilling yarn than most of Red Joan. Go to Full Review Red Joan (2018) 30% - -

Deborah Krieger MovieJawn Jun 21, 2019 What's unsettling and fascinating about Us, Forever Ago, is that at no point can you be entirely sure that you're watching anything documentary. Go to Full Review Us, Forever Ago (2018) - - - -

Deborah Krieger Bust Magazine May 9, 2019 Kent Jones, primarily known as a film critic, clearly understands what makes a good story and how best to tell it. There's not a false note in the movie, a point where you might think: "oh, no one actually would say that." Go to Full Review Diane (2018) 93% - -

Deborah Krieger MovieJawn May 1, 2019 The Chaperone is produced by PBS Masterpiece and is being shown in theaters, but it feels more suited to television. The budget is clearly lower for things like wigs and backdrops and old-age makeup to the extent that it's noticeable. Go to Full Review The Chaperone (2018) 48% 73%

Deborah Krieger Bust Magazine Apr 19, 2019 Starfish was written, directed, and scored by A. T. White, primarily a musician by trade, and it's completely fitting in how it uses sound to fully evoke the horror elements of the story. Go to Full Review Starfish (2018) 89% 46%

Deborah Krieger MovieJawn Mar 26, 2019 The Invisibles, sadly, comes across as extremely didactic, as if it is inherently unsure of why so much of the movie is reenacted by professional actors. Go to Full Review The Invisibles (2017) 71% - -

Deborah Krieger MovieJawn Mar 4, 2019 Ruben Brandt is suffering in a truly isolating way: these culturally ubiquitous objects of art that have so much beauty and meaning for everyone else have been causing him psychic and even real physical pain, and nothing he does seems to help. Go to Full Review Ruben Brandt, Collector (2018) 82% - -

Deborah Krieger I on the Arts Mar 3, 2019 What I found interesting while watching the film is that no attention is paid to aspects of aspects of society, especially in the United States, that could very well have played a part in these women and girl developing such severe eating disorders. Go to Full Review Thin (2006) 100% 84%

Deborah Krieger Bust Magazine Feb 11, 2019 Riseborough, so appealing in Battle of the Sexes and amusingly histrionic in The Death of Stalin, is astonishing in the lead role. Go to Full Review Nancy (2018) 85% 54%

Deborah Krieger MovieJawn Jan 31, 2019 A Boy Called Sailboat is an astonishingly assured debut narrative film, managing to be heartwarming but not overly cloying, visually striking without seeming like a formal exercise, thoughtful but probably not too complicated for kids to understand. Go to Full Review A Boy Called Sailboat (2018) 80% 77%

Deborah Krieger Filthy Dreams Jan 22, 2019 Social Animals focuses exclusively on how American teenagers use Instagram, almost serving as a fact-based mirror of Bo Burnham's gentle, wickedly honest Eighth Grade . Go to Full Review Social Animals (2018) 88% 70%

Deborah Krieger Bust Magazine Jan 3, 2019 The New Romantic (the debut feature of writer-director Carly Stone) is too slight, both in terms of theme and general characterization, to match up to Barden's performance (which will probably not get the attention it deserves). Go to Full Review The New Romantic (2018) 63% 37%

Deborah Krieger Jewish Currents Dec 25, 2018 The Waldheim Waltz functions as both an invaluable look at a protest movement fighting against a right-wing political insurgency, and also a call to action, creating a sense of righteous fury and a desire to prevent another Waldheim affair. Go to Full Review The Waldheim Waltz (2018) 100% - -

Deborah Krieger MovieJawn Dec 22, 2018 I just wish that the movie had taken a more unconventional approach to the story of this still-unconventional woman. Go to Full Review On the Basis of Sex (2018) 72% 76%