Lola On Film
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Milana Vujkov
Rating
Title/Year
Author
1
3/5
Adrienne (2021)
The aspect of Adrienne that is pure cinema - the footage, small triumphs, haunted encounters [...] is truly chilling and stellar in its rawness and fortitude.
Posted Jan 3, 2022
2
5/5
The Power of the Dog (2021)
Requires time to absorb and digest, and in that very quality it exhibits its excellence and extraordinary depth. [...] Long-awaited return to cinema of one of its greats.
Posted Dec 23, 2021
3
5/5
Spencer (2021)
Poetic, mysterious and subversively cathartic [...] unequivocally makes clear to all watching why Diana mattered so much, to so many. It has something to do with love.
Posted Dec 12, 2021
4
3/5
House of Gucci (2021)
Lady Gaga as Patrizia truly did give it her all [...] the only one on screen that actually fits the form, knowing how to spin deep emotion from what might seem like a lark.
Posted Dec 10, 2021
5
4/5
Sisters with Transistors (2020)
Brimming with Promethean insight on the relationship between human and machine - yet is also subdued in form, aiming for precision rather than panache.
Posted Dec 3, 2021
6
2/5
The Starling (2021)
Written as if it were a collection of random ideas for characters, and directed at pace of a wellness seminar.
Posted Nov 1, 2021
7
5/5
French Exit (2021)
Melancholic, world-weary, darkly funny, and strangely lovely, it gifts so much more than it promises, just like its heroine.
Posted Oct 23, 2021
8
2/5
Britney Vs Spears (2021)
Unfortunately, it does not get any closer to the human being that lives behind that perfect smile than an upset, well-meaning article in a fanzine would.
Posted Oct 20, 2021
9
3/5
The Last Duel (2021)
Marguerite's was story well worth to be told on its own. It would had held up without the [meta] gimmickry.
Posted Oct 19, 2021
10
4/5
The Guilty (2021)
Sombre, stoic, flawed but ultimately harrowing chamber piece dealing with, in essence, the moral dilemma of our times [...] how much do we assume about others [?]
Posted Oct 18, 2021
11
5/5
No Time To Die (2021)
Sophisticated entertainment, as well as poignant reflexion on bioweapons, fallible heroes, and love.
Posted Oct 16, 2021
12
4/5
Paper Spiders (2021)
A well-crafted, moving, bittersweet portrait of a deteriorating psyche, and the way any human suffering can be transcended with an open heart.
Posted Aug 21, 2021
13
3/5
Friend of the World (2020)
Would have preferred [it] less half its words (...) yet I did like its daring, lo-fi ethos, trippy, nasty twists, and its claustrophobic wayward wit.
Posted Aug 17, 2021
14
5/5
Promising Young Woman (2020)
Wrapped in vivacious rom-com feels, this is an ancient tale of womanhood desecrated (...) a female gaze extraordinaire, on men who abuse trust, and women who enable them.
Posted Aug 4, 2021
15
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989)
Spader's truth-fetishist Graham was a harbinger of things to come, as the first of Gen X hit their teens (...) [acquiring] the possibility to interact with the simulacrum.
Posted Aug 1, 2021
16
5/5
Billie (2020)
The brilliance of this duality, the two tales documenting Holiday, of the artist and of the biographer, the telling of the singularity that was Billie through [a] mirror.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
17
2/5
The Woman in the Window (2021)
Somewhere half way in, the entire enterprise loses its way, turning a substantial, juicy plot into a procedural psycho-thriller.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
18
5/5
The Capote Tapes (2021)
Truman Capote lived many lives, and inhabited manifold identities (...) yet this doc, somehow, managed to tailor it all to size.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
19
4/5
The Witch of Kings Cross (2020)
By loosely framing Rosaleen's life story as feminist hermetic theatre, the director offers this truly unique cultural figure some posthumous justice.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
20
4/5
Mank (2020)
A rare tribute to the importance of writing in film, and one of the most honest and subdued depictions of Hollywood that Hollywood ever delivered.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
21
4/5
Tesla (2020)
Michael Almereyda's sweetly bonkers mixtape of a film tribute is pure connoisseur delight. And, frankly, eerily accurate.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
22
1/5
Rebecca (2020)
[Deconstructing] marriage, and the British class system, through rendering a classic, yet deeply subversive tale of passion, bondage, illness and jealousy entirely soulless.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
23
3/5
The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
Seems rushed and too close to the heart of the filmmaker to be more grounded in living history than in personal sentiment, but it has Mark Rylance to hold that balance.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
24
5/5
On the Record (2020)
The fiercely talented Dixon, in her expressive and precise way, describes the experience of leaving the job she excelled in and loved as holding her breath for 16 years.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
25
3/5
Lucy in the Sky (2019)
I enjoyed its inconsistent but witty digressions. Sometimes, the right type of prose elevates the turmoil of shoddy romance, too prosaic to encounter through poetic means.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
26
5/5
A punk rock salute to the painful roots of the antisocial impulse.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
27
5/5
Unfolds as a liquid painting, shades of honey, earth, and time, with a soundtrack burning off all that is unnecessary.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
28
3/5
Bubbly Netflix doc reveals an exuberant, strange, bitter-sweet bit of astro pop history, celebrating a dazzling figure, one Walter Mercado, caped wizard.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
29
3/5
Radioactive (2020)
Satrapi, who is a visual and narrative virtuoso, landed herself a story that was to be served to a broader audience, and tried her best to craft it as her own.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
30
4/5
Spaceship Earth (2020)
Equally amusingly eco-trendy and genuinely gob-smacking saga about the ingenious two-year experiment.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
31
3/5
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019)
A moving actor's portrait of an artist's real anguish, hidden and gift-wrapped within a Gap ad that is Bernadette's scenery and style.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
32
3/5
Who would have thought, [Roy] Cohen's life, as existential tragedy.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
33
A holy text of cinema. And if you have never crossed paths with it, this is your moment at the crossroads. Ildikó Enyedi's macrocosmic masterpiece.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
34
4/5
Bad Education (2019)
It's truly a small miracle to watch the way these two antisocial misfits con their way into people's trust, as Jackman and Janney make them all too human.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
35
3/5
Planet of the Humans (2020)
In taking on the shadow aspects of the environmental movement, the filmmakers have their hearts in the right place. Not sure about the corporate environmentalists.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
36
3/5
Little Women (2019)
Too many stitches in the narrative quilt, its often rushed sentiment suffocating the genuine moments of resonant emotion. But it does have a thing or two to say about love.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
37
4/5
1917 (2020)
The gimmicky side of [its single take] fades juxtaposed to the perspective it offers.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
38
3/5
The Irishman (2019)
A magnificently made film about the boredom of thug life.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
39
5/5
Parasite (Gisaengchung) (2019)
A bonkers, beautiful, radical, and drop-dead intelligent dark satirical tale of social inequality [and the] mock egalitarian weirdness of late capitalism.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
40
5/5
What Did Jack Do? (2020)
As if Bogart himself rose from the dead, got hammered, and dictated his heartfelt last will and testament in cinema-speak to a no-nonsense bartender just before closing time.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
41
3/5
Bombshell (2019)
The only way forward was to rebel furiously, collectively. Thus #MeToo was born (...) and what a curious gestation place it had, the very epicenter of bullish conservatism.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
42
4/5
Marriage Story (2019)
Both leads perfectly hit that elusive note of fragile human contradiction that could only come from an inner experience of real loss. And immense talent.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
43
3/5
The Two Popes (2019)
Intelligent filmmaking, telling a very difficult, highly sensitive tale in a low-key, old-fashioned way, and still coming out as entirely relevant to the times.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
44
5/5
Knives Out (2019)
Bubbling merrily in its humanity, and impishly clear in exposing societal rot through the cleverest of cinema lenses - a whodunit.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
45
4/5
Judy (2019)
There is something very Sirkian about Judy, a heartbreaking authenticity beneath the dramatically artificial, a quality of a backstage view.
Posted Jul 31, 2021
46
4/5
Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)
I'd pay to watch Melissa McCarthy stare at a wall. She'd make that a performance. Her ability to create emotional momentum out of thin air is second to none.
Posted Jul 30, 2021
47
3/5
Mapplethorpe (2019)
Capturing the life and times of one Robert Mapplethorpe was always going to be recklessly ambitious. Perhaps even, impossible.
Posted Jul 30, 2021
48
5/5
Joker (2019)
[Phoenix as the Joker] burns like he were an archangel on heroin, a contorted otherworldly presence that under a different constellation of stars would have ended up a saint.
Posted Jul 30, 2021
49
2/5
J.T. LeRoy (2019)
So much pain, hubris, ambition, and damage to draw upon (...) yet we get a breezy, well-lit tale scratching the surface for more surface.
Posted Jul 30, 2021
50
2/5
Ad Astra (2019)
A selfish story about selfishness.
Posted Jul 30, 2021