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Sep 4, 2020 · Brady Clark. Whilst I Made This for You might present itself as a work of fiction, the story will be true for so many. As the title card reads: “In the UK and Ireland more than 125 people will ...
Apr 19, 2018 · I Made This for You: Directed by Cristian Solimeno. With Kaleem Aftab, Brett Allen, Ken Cave, Ali Cook. A uniquely told tale of friendship and love wherein a man receives a documentary made about his life by his worried friend.
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- Cristian Solimeno
- 2018-04-19
Jun 3, 2016 · What you have is “Me Before You,” an exercise not in S&M marathons but an almost completely chaste wallow in sob cinema, the Hollywood prototype of which is “ Love Story .”. Luckily, many of the plot’s maudlin pitfalls are greatly mitigated by the film’s utterly infectious leading lady. Emilia Clarke ’s performance is winningly ...
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Let’s cut right to the chase. Christopher Nolan is probably my favourite working director, and going five thousand words deep on his careerafter “Dunkirk” was an itch I’d been waiting to scratch for nearly a decade. “The Dark Knight” was my dorm-room poster movie — I’m part of the generation that explored films through the IMDb Top 250 growing up —...
At the 2017 Sundance premiere of Miguel Arteta’s “Beatriz at Dinner,”starring Salma Hayek, I found myself in shock at the reactions I heard from the mostly-white audience at the Eccles Theatre. I was watching a different movie, one that spoke to me as an immigrant, a Latino, and someone who’s felt out of place in spaces dominated by people who’ve n...
Like many writers, I tend to subconsciously disown anything I’ve written more than a few months ago, so I read this question, in practice, as what’s my favorite thing I’ve written recently. On that front, I’d say that the review of “Phantom Thread”that I wrote over at my blog comes the closest to what I most desire to do as a critic. I try to think...
I don’t know if it’s my best work, but a landmark in my life as a critic was surely a review of Chaplin’s “The Circus,” in time for the release of its restoration in 2010. I cherish this piece, written for Slant Magazine, for a number of reasons. For one, I felt deeply honored to shed more light on probably the least known and least respected of Ch...
No way would I dare to recommend any pieces of my own, but I don’t mind mentioning a part of my work that I do with special enthusiasm. Criticism, I think, is more than the three A’s (advocacy, analysis, assessment); it’s prophetic, seeing the future of the art from the movies that are on hand. Yet many of the most forward-looking, possibility-expa...
It’s a piece on two of my favorite films of 2017, “Lady Bird” and “Call Me By Your Name”,and about how their very different modes of storytelling speak to the different sorts of stories we tell ourselves. Objectively, I don’t know if this is my best work in terms of pure style and craft, but I do think it’s the most emblematic in terms of what I va...
My favorite piece of my own work is definitely “The Shape of Water’s” Strickland as the “Ur-American.”I’m proud of it because it required me to really take stock of all the things that Americans are taught from birth to take as given. That meant looking at our history of colonialism, imperialism, racism, anticommunism and really diving into how all...
This is tricky, but “Annihilation” is definitely my favorite piece of film criticism that I’ve written. My writing style is a combination of criticism and gifs, and sometimes the words are better than the gifs, and the gifs are better than the words. With “Annihilation,” I thought the balance was perfect. My favorite portion: “Lena is just an idea,...
I’m the worst judge of my own material; there’s almost nothing I’ve ever written that I don’t want to pick at and re-edit, no matter how much time has passed. But since, for me, the hardest part of film criticism is adequately praising a movie you truly love, then by default my best review would probably be of one of my favorite films of all time, ...
I can’t summon the strength to re-read it, but I remember thinking that my piece on grief and “Personal Shopper”was emblematic of how I hope to thread individual perspective into arts criticism.
All Critics (1) | Fresh (1) I Made This For You is a last-ditch love letter, all at once sensitive, distressing and uplifting - an ode to friendship and connection, and an emergency beacon call to ...
Made for Love. A woman is on the run after 10 years in a suffocating marriage to a tech billionaire, who has implanted a monitoring device in her brain, allowing him to track her, watch her and ...
