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Book adaptation

She Said

Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan are terrific as the new and equally charismatic versions of Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford in this feminine (and feminist) answer to All the President’s Men.

White Noise | NYFF 2022

A stimulating example of giving-it-all filmmaking for art’s sake that might not be perfect or cohesive, but it’s restless fun and uncompromising.

Stars at Noon | NYFF 2022

Claire Denis’s latest is wobbly, sometimes mesmerizing, but meandering, though it features one of the year’s best musical scores.

On the Come Up

The performances certainly carry On the Come Up’s weight, but its pacing less so.

The Wonder | TIFF 2022

The team behind this book adaptation spins a sinuous narrative of many colors. It’s easily one of the classiest films that Netflix has produced. 

Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris

A widowed British house cleaner falls in love with a Christian Dior dress and aims to buy one for herself in this sweet, if unsurprising, Cinderella story.

Lost Illusions

A lush yet propulsive story of a writer’s rise and fall in 19th-century Paris that moves fast and is loads of fun.

Mothering Sunday

A British period drama that subverts the polite conventions of the genre with its frank depiction of sex.

Fabian: Going to the Dogs

Welcome to Weimar–era Berlin, a world of economic instability, wild partying, cabaret performers, rampant sexuality, and where Nazis are beginning to march the streets.