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Karen Martin

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The Year Between (2022) 75% EDIT “It's brutal, cruelly funny, socially relevant, and not the stuff of happily-ever-after fairy tales.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Jun 24, 2022 Full Review The Beauty of Blackness (2022) EDIT “Co-directed by Kiana Moore and Tiffany Johnson, the beautifully photographed pay-for-play production, streaming on HBO Max, is glamorous as well as relevant in its effort to show how beauty is connected to power and whiteness.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Jun 24, 2022 Full Review The Jesus Music (2021) 67% 80/100 EDIT “What began as a confident, clearly focused and expressed narrative suddenly scatters, as if the filmmakers forgot where it is they wanted to go.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Oct 1, 2021 Full Review Promising Young Woman (2020) 90% EDIT “A shocking revenge fantasy that will break your heart, Promising Young Woman is perhaps a touch too strident (and extreme) for some tastes, but it is an indelible souvenir of our ongoing moment.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Mar 19, 2021 Full Review Mayor (2020) 100% EDIT “A riveting and human portrait of the very likable Musa Hadid... Briskly paced and expertly edited, Mayor is a humbling reminder that not all politicians are cynical opportunists.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Mar 12, 2021 Full Review Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese (2019) 92% EDIT “There's a lot of storytelling along with the music that, along with backstage goofing around, adds to the entertainment value. Not to be missed is a sensational bit of archival footage featuring [Joni] Mitchell playing her new song "Coyote."” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Jan 23, 2021 Full Review Ammonite (2020) 70% EDIT “Ammonite feels a little airless and cool, and it pales in comparison to Céline Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire and Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue Is the Warmest Color, to name but two recent examples of quality arthouse lesbian romance.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Jan 15, 2021 Full Review That Good Night (2017) 48% EDIT “Performances aside, Eric Styles' creaky, sentimental film is mainly of morbid interest. Hurt does well here, but this is not what we should remember him by.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Nov 6, 2020 Full Review Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (2017) 98% EDIT “Stephen Schible's documentary biography of the great film composer is not only an interesting portrait of an artist but a sensitive and engrossing exploration of the act of creation itself.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Nov 6, 2020 Full Review A Regular Woman (2019) 94% EDIT “Sherry Hormann's chilling drama revolves around a free-spirited young woman living with an ultra-conservative Turkish Muslim family in Berlin.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Nov 6, 2020 Full Review Blackbird (2019) 64% EDIT “A game attempt to take on a complicated relationship gets stalled by too many plot contrivances in this drama about what's meant to be a sad, sweetly sentimental holiday weekend of goodbyes.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Nov 6, 2020 Full Review I Am Woman (2019) 66% EDIT “An unremarkable step-by-step narrative biography of the late Helen Reddy.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Nov 6, 2020 Full Review Antebellum (2020) 31% EDIT “A horror movie that, despite an impressive amount of work by the casting director, succeeds only at disappointing its audience because it's distressingly violent without being scary.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Nov 6, 2020 Full Review Misbehaviour (2020) 87% EDIT “The reason films, especially comedies, follow formulas is because they work. That's the case with the smartly cast farce Misbehaviour.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Nov 6, 2020 Full Review The Argument (2020) 78% EDIT “It takes a while to get where it's going, but patience pays off.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Nov 6, 2020 Full Review Hard Kill (2020) 0% EDIT “All you need to know about this lame actioner is that it was filmed in 10 days. And it shows.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Nov 6, 2020 Full Review Cut Throat City (2020) 72% EDIT “Although the plot has too many elements spinning off in all sorts of directions to be truly coherent, and the backdrop deserves a bigger role than it's given, the big-time cast is worth the audience's focus.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Oct 23, 2020 Full Review Black Water: Abyss (2020) 41% EDIT “Engagingly realistic and intermittently scary.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Oct 23, 2020 Full Review The Dog Doc (2019) 89% EDIT “Described by some as a miracle worker and by others as a quack, Dr. Goldstein is known as a pioneer of integrative veterinary medicine. This focused, detailed, and artfully assembled documentary makes an earnest effort to tell us why.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Oct 19, 2020 Full Review Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020) 99% 88/100 EDIT “There's no way anyone would describe this somber film as enjoyable, but its subtlety and clarity succeed in leaving an unforgettable impression.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Apr 10, 2020 Full Review Little Women (2019) 95% 90/100 EDIT “Credit to the success of Little Women extends from the finely tuned cast to director Gerwig, whose fine-honed skills on both sides of the camera empower her to be the perfect choice to present this story to a new generation.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Dec 27, 2019 Full Review Judd Apatow: The Return (2017) 86% EDIT “Apatow's confident, yet self-deprecating delivery of relatable tales focusing on fatherhood, social media, and growing older make for a comfortable get-together that feels like catching up with a long-lost friend who's skilled at amusing those around him.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Jul 8, 2019 Full Review The Tomorrow Man (2019) 43% 78/100 EDIT “No doubt this effort is well intended, but the details are too distracting to hold it together.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Jun 7, 2019 Full Review Elliot: The Littlest Reindeer (2018) 30% 87/100 EDIT “The ending won't be a surprise, but don't expect an overdose of schmaltz. Elliot has the heart of an athlete, the focus of a competitor, and the empathy of a true friend. That's what makes his movie a contender.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Dec 7, 2018 Full Review Skate Kitchen (2018) 89% EDIT “Skate Kitchen is a highly realistic and believable narrative feature, populated with non-professional actors playing versions of themselves. Not much happens. What does happen is natural and relevant. And the film is terrific.” – Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Dec 7, 2018 Full Review
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