Devika Girish

Devika Girish Sight & Sound May 14, 2026 With Summer of Soul, Questlove gives solidity to their memories, ensuring their due place in the annals of American history. Go to Full Review Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (2021) 99% 98%

Devika Girish New York Times Jul 12, 2024 If it can feel haphazard and narratively unsatisfying at times, it’s also thrilling in the way it matches Peter’s rhythms, refusing to sand down her defiant complexity. Go to Full Review Twice Colonized (2023) 100% - -

Devika Girish New York Times May 31, 2024 These are familiar, even hackneyed themes, which make the film’s relentless theatrics feel gratuitous and somewhat exhausting. Style overpowers substance, though Poe’s fantastic eye for composition and Clemons’s vivacious screen presence are undeniable. Go to Full Review The Young Wife (2023) 91% - -

Devika Girish New York Times Apr 19, 2024 As the film leans into melodrama, it loses both its friction and frisson, and a steaming-hot premise turns into something cold to the touch. Go to Full Review Egoist (2022) 73% - -

Devika Girish Firstpost Mar 26, 2024 Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson's performances and charm make this film intensely watchable. Go to Full Review Marriage Story (2019) 95% 85%

Devika Girish New York Times Mar 21, 2024 A drama that is too content with telling rather than showing. Go to Full Review Shirley (2024) 75% - -

Devika Girish New York Times Feb 14, 2024 For the most part, “The Space Race” doesn’t quite interrogate these tokenizing narratives, leaving the central question unaddressed: Can the glorified achievements of a few result in change for the many? Go to Full Review The Space Race (2023) 88% - -

Devika Girish Vague Visages Feb 6, 2024 There’s a calculated precision to both Reitman’s direction and Cody’s screenplay. The film is perfectly paced and cut, and moves with a rat-a-tat rhythm; the writing is sharp and specific, with a zinger in every other line. Go to Full Review Tully (2018) 87% 74%

Devika Girish Vague Visages Feb 6, 2024 Unlike many documentaries of its ilk, The Feeling of Being Watched is not weighed down by doomsaying or sensationalism; instead, the picture it paints of community organization is genuinely hopeful. Go to Full Review The Feeling of Being Watched (2018) 94% - -

Devika Girish Vague Visages Feb 6, 2024 Esti plunges herself into the terrifying uncertain place between obedience and disobedience, and it is her courage to stay there — to be defiantly out-of-sync — that powers Lelio’s arresting film. Go to Full Review Disobedience (2017) 84% 75%

Devika Girish Vague Visages Feb 6, 2024 Lemonade makes palpable the psychological experience of immigration and the constant, self-effacing guardedness it encourages. Go to Full Review Lemonade (2018) 90% 73%

Devika Girish New York Times Jan 18, 2024 A film that, in its best moments, feels as light and refreshing as a cool breeze. Go to Full Review The Breaking Ice (2023) 91% - -

Devika Girish Vague Visages Dec 6, 2023 ...a purposeful tackiness that somehow befits the issue of the earth’s disintegration... Go to Full Review First Reformed (2017) 94% 69%

Devika Girish New York Times Nov 25, 2023 “Against the Tide, ” Sarvnik Kaur’s breathtaking documentary about Indigenous fishermen in Mumbai, India, dispels the myth that cinematic beauty has to do with the power of the camera or the glossiness of the image. Go to Full Review Against the Tide (2023) 95% - -

Devika Girish New York Times Nov 16, 2023 Nicole Newnham’s film recoups Hite’s story from the margins of feminist history with both style and substance, taking its cue from its subject. Go to Full Review The Disappearance of Shere Hite (2023) 100% 97%

Devika Girish New York Times Oct 19, 2023 “To Kill a Tiger” is a film bristling with such invigorating defiance. Go to Full Review To Kill a Tiger (2022) 100% - -

Devika Girish New York Times Sep 14, 2023 Richard Dewey’s staid, by-the-book documentary can hardly match the flair with which Wolfe lived and wrote. Go to Full Review Radical Wolfe (2023) 68% 78%

Devika Girish New York Times Sep 7, 2023 Guzmán’s documentary is a people’s microhistory of a nation in transition. Go to Full Review The First Year (1972) - - - -

Devika Girish New York Times Aug 3, 2023 The movie is funny and touching, with a star-making performance by Min and a script full of lovely, self-aware little touches... Go to Full Review Shortcomings (2023) 85% 85%

Devika Girish New York Times Jul 27, 2023 “El Agua” succeeds as a portrait of the village’s traditions, both manual and cultural, brought to life by a largely nonprofessional cast. Go to Full Review The Water (2022) 100% - -