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Hazel Cills

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Zola (2020) 88% EDIT “Rather than capture the intensity of the original thread, Zola plays like an experiment in translating one woman's social media posts into a feature film that feels eerily disconnected from reality.” – Jezebel Jun 29, 2021 Full Review Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal (2021) 88% EDIT “These scripted scenes not only make up a confusing bulk of the movie, but [are] also inelegant and clunky.” – Jezebel Mar 18, 2021 Full Review Nomadland (2020) 93% EDIT “Nomadland doesn't aestheticize poverty so much as it messily depicts the characters' connection to their nomadism.” – Jezebel Mar 3, 2021 Full Review Wonder Woman 1984 (2020) 57% EDIT “All the potential -- for her character and for this sequel, her fighting abilities, the kinds of villains she could face, the action scenes -- feels dulled here. In the end somehow I wanted more of Wonder Woman.” – Jezebel Dec 28, 2020 Full Review Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine (2020) 67% EDIT “Like many funny people who get a few minutes of viral fame on platforms like TikTok, or Youtube, or Twitter, Cooper doesn't move beyond her shtick in Everything's Fine, a shtick that feels tiresome the third time you see it in the special.” – Jezebel Oct 27, 2020 Full Review The Forty-Year-Old Version (2020) 99% EDIT “An honest, anxious movie about the perils of selling out and recalibrating what success actually feels like, especially in an industry that says it values your voice but only to a point.” – Jezebel Oct 9, 2020 Full Review Class Action Park (2020) 96% EDIT “The moment the documentary strays from its campfire tale quality and confronts the elephant in the room -- the deaths that occurred at this supposedly fun waterpark -- Class Action Park misses an opportunity to tell a bigger story.” – Jezebel Aug 27, 2020 Full Review Seberg (2019) 36% EDIT “Seberg drops the ball, approaching the actress's story and harassment at the hands of the government with surprising cowardice, taking an unfounded "both sides" stance in portraying the FBI investigation.” – Jezebel May 21, 2020 Full Review Charlie's Angels (2019) 52% EDIT “There's the sense that Charlie's Angels is skimming the surface of its comedic potential, especially with Banks directing.” – Jezebel Nov 15, 2019 Full Review Judy (2019) 82% EDIT “Judy, for all its flaws, is an earnest snapshot of an artist who has lived their life constantly performing, and the intense highs and lows of being on stage and off it.” – Jezebel Sep 20, 2019 Full Review Tall Girl (2019) 42% EDIT “What's a girl to do besides mope around feeling bad about her height and never develop a personality beyond that because the writer is incapable of developing a well-rounded teen girl character?” – Jezebel Sep 16, 2019 Full Review At the Heart of Gold: Inside the USA Gymnastics Scandal (2019) 100% EDIT “It's a brutal but respectful documentary.” – Jezebel Jul 1, 2019 Full Review Midsommar (2019) 83% EDIT “The film is brimming with seriously dedicated world-building, including creepy illustrated histories dotting the village's interiors that feel ripped from a Henry Darger book, but all the exposition doesn't actually make for an engaging horror film.” – Jezebel Jul 1, 2019 Full Review Late Night (2019) 80% EDIT “Molly is a portrait of feminine goodness, one on which the film hinges its retrograde ethos about good comedy.” – Jezebel Jun 11, 2019 Full Review Us (2019) 93% EDIT “While Us may be marred with flaws, the family at its center can probably withstand anything.” – Jezebel Mar 22, 2019 Full Review Fyre (2019) 93% EDIT “It's these scenes, of glib meetings with investors-and Ja Rule and McFarland cackling on boats about how everyone just lapped up their supermodel -that make the movie feel like a pressure cooker.” – Jezebel Jan 14, 2019 Full Review Destination Wedding (2018) 51% EDIT “The movie's minimalism -- which gives the eerie impression that Destination Wedding was better intended as a short story or a play rather than a feature film -- might have succeeded if it weren't for the script itself.” – Jezebel Aug 31, 2018 Full Review Slender Man (2018) 8% EDIT “While there's no arguing that the existence of Slender Man is tasteless, the final product is also harmless: a boring horror movie about a fleeting internet phenomenon that its intended audience has largely forgotten about.” – Jezebel Aug 13, 2018 Full Review Ingrid Goes West (2017) 84% EDIT “With this kind of Internet-bred micro-celebrity still surprisingly untouched in film and television, Ingrid Goes West feels like a movie we needed.” – Jezebel Jun 13, 2018 Full Review Gerald's Game (2017) 91% EDIT “Despite its small cast and location, Gerald's Game never feels tedious.” – Jezebel Jun 13, 2018 Full Review A Quiet Place (2018) 96% EDIT “A Quiet Place, John Krasinski's first horror movie, is kind of a laughable exercise.” – Jezebel Jun 12, 2018 Full Review Mary Shelley (2018) 40% EDIT “The surprisingly limited scope of Mary Shelley, directed by Haifaa al-Mansour, is precisely what makes it a drag.” – Jezebel Jun 12, 2018 Full Review Unfriended (2014) 62% EDIT “It's not the B-movie gore death scenes that make Unfriended squirm-inducing, it's how it taps in and holds on tight to how annoying the Internet and computers can be, especially when they're being tinkered with.” – Grantland Apr 17, 2015 Full Review It Follows (2014) 95% EDIT “Written and directed by David Robert Mitchell, It Follows is the latest in a long line of sex-as-horror flicks that somehow grounds its terror both in reality and in the otherworldly, making this a smart and thought-provoking movie.” – Grantland Mar 13, 2015 Full Review
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