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Erica Abeel

Film Review: Claire Denis’s “Stars At Noon” — A Romance Novel Elevated by Auteurist Flourishes

The action, as it were, is mostly the exhaustively filmed grappling of two beautiful people in no-star motels.

By: Erica Abeel Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: A24, Claire Denis, Denis Johnson, Erica Abeel, Joe Alwyn, Margaret Qualley, Stars at Noon

Film Review: “Lost Illusions” — 19th Century French Corruption Makes for Thrilling Entertainment

Winner of seven Cesars, this mordant portrait of the corrupt Parisian press mid 19th century, along with the commodification of just about everything, speaks loudly to the internet era.

By: Erica Abell Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Erica Abeel, Honoré de Balzac, Lost Illusions, Xavier Giannoli

Film Review: “The Northman” — You-Are-There with the Viking Beserkers, Nuttiness and Magic Galore

The Northman is grounded in a manically precise capture of the Nordic world of the 9th century AD, but refracted through the lens of a whacked-out visionary in a spew of eye-popping images.

By: Erica Abeel Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Alexander Skarsgård, Erica Abeel, Jarin Blaschke, Robert Eggers, The Northman

Film Review: “C’mon c’mon” — Taking Care of Kids

For a movie starring a kid, this one is adroitly crafted and goes easy on the treacle.

By: Erica Abeel Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: C'mon c'mon, Erica Abeel, Mike Mills

Film Review: “Red Rocket” — A Dog’s Life

No woman, I’m willing to bet, could have filmed the sex scenes in Red Rocket. She would have cracked up laughing or thrown up.

By: Erica Abeel Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Erica Abeel, Red Rocket, Sean Baker, Simon Rex, Suzanna Son

Film Review: Pedro Almodovar’s “Parallel Mothers” — Let It Bear You Away

Pedro Almodovar’s latest, Parallel Mothers, sets up a dialectic between women’s regenerative powers and the blood-soaked history of pre-WWII Spain.

By: Erica Abeel Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Erica Abeel, Parallel Mothers, Pedro Almodovar

Film Review: Nicholas Jarecki’s “Crisis” — Death, Opioids, and Corporate Greed

Crisis takes on the opioid crisis – which has killed more people than the war in Vietnam — and gives corporate villainy (Big Pharma) the Hollywood treatment.

By: Erica Abeel Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Crisis, Erica Abeel, Gary Oldman, Nicholas Jarecki

Film Review: “French Exit’ — In This Absurdist Romp a Diva Makes a Grand Exit

Defiant and tonally offbeat, French Exit mirrors, in a sense, its female protagonist, who doesn’t give a damn what the world thinks of her.

By: Erica Abeel Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Azazel Jacobs, Erica Abeel, French Exit, Lucas Hedges, Michelle Pfeiffer, New York Film Festival, Patrick DeWitt

Film Review: “The World to Come” — A Haunting Female Frontier Romance

The excitement of these films – perhaps the word frisson would not be amiss – is that these women are envisioned as explorers in the land of Eros, map-makers of new terrain, discovering and inventing love as they go.

By: Erica Abeel Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Casey Affleck, Erica Abeel, Katherine Waterston, Mona Fastvold, THE WORLD TO COME, Vanessa Kirby

Film Review: Freud Never Asked What Men Want, “The Climb” Tells Us

The terrific The Climb looks at bro-bonding in a way you’ve never quite seen.

By: Erica Abeel Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Erica Abeel, The Climb

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