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

By Danny King
Aug 22, 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
Custody Spins Unlikely Suspense From Trouble at Home

By Danny King
Aug 6, 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 15, 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
With Golden Exits, Alex Ross Perry Has Crafted an Intimate Brooklyn Epic

By Danny King
Feb 21, 2018

The characters talk extensively about what matters to them rather than what matters to the plot, exposing themselves, sharing the worries that keep them up at night
For Better or Worse, Den of Thieves Gives Gerard Butler 140 Minutes to Ham It Up

By Danny King
Jan 19, 2018

Christian Gudegast’s Den of Thieves comes in a cut above the usual trash that Gerard Butler stars in (Law Abiding Citizen, Olympus Has Fallen), which is to say it’s a cut above movies that themselves are already passably diverting ...

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