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Support the Girls Is a Winning, Rambunctious Comedy About Work in America

By Danny King
Sep 4, 2018

Bujalski frames most of Support the Girls as an almost real-time delineation of chaos, but his storytelling elegance — delicate, nearly invisible foreshadowing; cogent evocations of backstory — adds reflective layers to the surface anarchy
Winona (Talks) Forever, With Keanu, in Destination Wedding

By Danny King
Sep 3, 2018

Ryder and Reeves spend the entire movie preoccupied only with one another, despite their characters’ intimate associations with the betrothed couple
Custody Spins Unlikely Suspense From Trouble at Home

By Danny King
Aug 7, 2018

Miriam (Léa Drucker) has quit her job and absconded with the family’s two kids — 11-year-old Julien (Thomas Gioria) and almost-18 Josephine (Mathilde Auneveux) — after, she explains, experiences of spousal and child abuse
Claire Denis Beguiles Again in Piercing Let the Sunshine In

By Danny King
May 14, 2018

... This is essentially Denis’ movie about the dating game — the highs and lows, the setbacks and surprises, the wine-filled meals and sublimely silent car rides flush with the possibility of either consummation or heartbreak
A Nashville Star Learns What Really Matters in the Too-Obvious Forever My Girl

By Danny King
Jan 18, 2018

Where the movie occasionally locates some surprise and resonance is in the tiny exchanges, when Wolf allows her characters to breathe, free of the demands of a schematic narrative

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