Brooklyn Magazine

Jeffrey Dunn Rovinelli Brooklyn Magazine Mar 19, 2021 A visionary image of film-as-saturated-media-image. Go to Full Review Born in Flames (1983) 89% 58%

Michael Sragow Brooklyn Magazine Mar 21, 2019 DeBlois's confident, extravagant animation combines muscular force with doodling whimsicality. He conjures intoxicating tableaux out of roaring seas, Northern lights and mists, and ruddy, green-specked mountain isles. Go to Full Review How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) 90% 100%

Abbey Bender Brooklyn Magazine Jan 18, 2019 The Edge of Seventeen is the kind of modest, funny teen movie that we don't see enough of these days. Go to Full Review The Edge of Seventeen (2016) 94% 83%

Ela Bittencourt Brooklyn Magazine Aug 8, 2018 Throughout, what makes All These Sleepless Nights distinct, beyond the three protagonists philosophical, artistic musings and their charisma, is the camera's ability to convey the state of intoxication and the dreaminess of the nocturnal juvenilia. Go to Full Review All These Sleepless Nights (2016) 70% 55%

Ela Bittencourt Brooklyn Magazine Aug 8, 2018 The narrative is suffused with subtle yet piquant moral commentary. Go to Full Review A Woman's Life (2016) 82% 47%

Abbey Bender Brooklyn Magazine Jun 26, 2018 As its characters run through downtown New York it feels like the platonic ideal of a playful 90s indie film. Go to Full Review Amateur (1994) 78% 85%

Abbey Bender Brooklyn Magazine Jun 26, 2018 Kenneth Lonergan's Manchester by the Sea is a poignant, evocative portrait of grief. Go to Full Review Manchester by the Sea (2016) 96% 78%

Abbey Bender Brooklyn Magazine Jun 26, 2018 While female friendship can be a source of joy, it can also be uniquely cruel, and Always Shine understands this truth well. Go to Full Review Always Shine (2016) 91% 52%

Abbey Bender Brooklyn Magazine Jun 26, 2018 Nocturnal Animals wants to be provocative but its scattered parts all add up to something a bit silly. Go to Full Review Nocturnal Animals (2016) 74% 73%

Abbey Bender Brooklyn Magazine Jun 26, 2018 The film is admirable in how it presents rural lives without any sort of condescension or melodrama. There's a kind of Zen quality to the leisurely pace with which Reichardt lets her onscreen lives unfold. Go to Full Review Certain Women (2016) 92% 51%

Abbey Bender Brooklyn Magazine Jun 26, 2018 Elaine speaks of love magic and seduction, and Biller's film has the same enchanting effect on the audience. Go to Full Review The Love Witch (2016) 95% 61%

Abbey Bender Brooklyn Magazine Jun 26, 2018 In less capable hands, it could easily become a saccharine family fable or a gross-out comedy, but Ade manages to find her own strange niche, bolstered by some memorable set pieces. Go to Full Review Toni Erdmann (2016) 93% 73%

Abbey Bender Brooklyn Magazine Jun 26, 2018 Elle makes a strong case for the actress as auteur. Go to Full Review Elle (2016) 91% 73%

Abbey Bender Brooklyn Magazine Jun 26, 2018 Off the Rails succeeds in giving us a glimpse into a mind too easily labeled as "troubled" or "different" and paints Darius as a sympathetic figure following a passion. Go to Full Review Off the Rails (2016) 100% 85%

Steve Erickson Brooklyn Magazine Feb 15, 2018 Refreshingly, The Kindergarten Teacher offers a view of Israeli society that sidesteps the usual clichés. Go to Full Review The Kindergarten Teacher (2014) 77% 44%

Steve Erickson Brooklyn Magazine Feb 15, 2018 It's curious about people in a way that's frankly old-fashioned. Go to Full Review The Iron Ministry (2014) 90% 52%

Steve Erickson Brooklyn Magazine Feb 15, 2018 In life and cinema, trans women's lives are often extremely difficult. Ozon is generous enough to imagine a path around their usual obstacle courses. Go to Full Review The New Girlfriend (2014) 79% 61%

Jesse Hassenger Brooklyn Magazine Dec 20, 2017 Despite all of the eventfulness, there's little dramatic tension, and lots of footage of kids walking around a museum. Go to Full Review Wonderstruck (2017) 68% 55%

Jesse Hassenger Brooklyn Magazine Dec 20, 2017 Though much of Call Me By Your Name is lovely and well-crafted, it's never quite as subtle as the filmmakers seem to assume. Go to Full Review Call Me by Your Name (2017) 95% 86%

Jesse Hassenger Brooklyn Magazine Dec 20, 2017 This road picture's many detours, the stuff that should be right in Linklater's wheelhouse, mostly feel, well, like vexing delays. Go to Full Review Last Flag Flying (2017) 76% 72%