Robert Koehler

Robert Koehler Cineaste Magazine Feb 29, 2024 Triet’s movie is built on the central concept of what we interpret from what we see and hear -- the cinema’s essential elements -- establishing the foundation of what we then perceive as “the truth.” Go to Full Review Anatomy of a Fall (2023) 96% 90%

Robert Koehler Cinema Scope Feb 17, 2023 The movie completely loses whatever energy it had to begin with when McDormand exits, because she was bringing the thrust and momentum of pure anger to the drama. Go to Full Review The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) 93% 74%

Robert Koehler Cinema Scope Feb 16, 2023 This final confrontation is truly a spectacle... Go to Full Review Nope (2022) 83% 69%

Robert Koehler Cinema Scope Aug 2, 2022 Riley Stearns’ clone-in-existential-crisis drama Dual suffers from both lazy storytelling and having been beaten to the punch on its high concept by the Mahershala Ali-starring Swan Song. Go to Full Review Dual (2022) 71% 62%

Robert Koehler Cinema Scope Aug 2, 2022 Sen takes the chaotic world on its own terms, and quietly uncovers a rich metaphor in the bird's tenacity: somehow, even in this place, life can thrive. Go to Full Review All That Breathes (2022) 99% 83%

Robert Koehler Cinema Scope Aug 2, 2022 The film's chronicle acts as a severe indictment of the country and what it owes the people it enslaved—in one form or another—since 1619... Go to Full Review Riotsville, USA (2022) 91% 56%

Robert Koehler Cinema Scope Aug 2, 2022 The viewer is asked to be as observant to details, to furtive gestures and to shades of meaning, as D’Ambrose is in adapting his own family story, making The Cathedral a genuinely radical act. Go to Full Review The Cathedral (2022) 96% - -

Robert Koehler Cinema Scope Aug 2, 2022 Living is above all a work of dramatic writing at the highest level, as well as a master class in how to adapt—and improve!—a fine original screenplay from one cultural setting to another. Go to Full Review Living (2022) 96% 91%

Robert Koehler Cinema Scope Aug 1, 2022 Erratically structured as both thriller and comedy, Carey Williams’ Emergency has all the earmarks of being both a Jordan Peele wannabe and a calling-card project for Hollywood, and pulls off neither. Go to Full Review Emergency (2022) 91% 73%

Robert Koehler Cinema Scope Aug 1, 2022 Bradley Rust Gray’s blood surely ranked as the most notable failure of all, a lugubrious slice-of-life... Go to Full Review I'll Be Your Mirror (2024) 46% - -

Robert Koehler Cinema Scope Aug 1, 2022 Sadness, inside a story of how a single man changes the course of his remaining days, has rarely been expressed with such grace and beauty. Go to Full Review Ikiru (1952) 98% 97%

Robert Koehler Cinema Scope Oct 8, 2021 For this viewer, these images of nocturnal dancing are already becoming the iconic ones of the pandemic: silhouetted bodies in motion, resisting entropy and a destructive virus, fighting back the only way they know how. Working it, with joy. Go to Full Review The Tsugua Diaries (2021) 78% - -

Robert Koehler Cinema Scope Jul 13, 2021 Nomadland the movie gets lost in its own drift, and, simply, drops off the map. Go to Full Review Nomadland (2020) 93% 82%

Robert Koehler Variety Oct 19, 2020 Wide range of interviewed witnesses, legal and investigative experts is impressive, as is the depth of the pic's human portraits. Go to Full Review The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez (2007) 100% 76%

Robert Koehler Los Angeles Times Jun 9, 2020 The closeted, forcibly hidden lives of homosexual men and women before the 1960s is briefly but powerfully documented by Arthur Dong. Go to Full Review Out Rage '69: The Question of Equality (1995) - - - -

Robert Koehler Variety May 22, 2020 The blandly staged film misses a great opportunity to draw insightful and memorable character portraits of the kind virtually ignored in mainstream moviemaking. Go to Full Review Noah's Arc: Jumping the Broom (2008) 45% 74%

Robert Koehler Cineaste Magazine May 22, 2020 The results are not just to thrust the past to the present, but to envelop the viewer in the thinking that defined that past. Go to Full Review An Officer and a Spy (2019) 78% 83%

Robert Koehler Los Angeles Times May 1, 2020 Dong's film gracefully shows how one semi-underground club brought all manner of American contradictions to the surface. Go to Full Review Forbidden City, USA (1989) 100% - -

Robert Koehler Cineaste Magazine Feb 25, 2020 When the history of this moment in world cinema is written, Parasite will take its place as the movie that got the moment right. Go to Full Review Parasite (2019) 99% - -

Robert Koehler Cinema Scope Feb 7, 2020 Zaillian (and most likely Scorsese, in concert with his abiding editor Thelma Schoonmaker) structures The Irishman along three tracks of time that wind in and out of each other. Go to Full Review The Irishman (2019) 95% 86%