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Shirley Li

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Die My Love (2025) 74% EDIT “Lawrence is superb at exemplifying Grace’s confusion. She alternates fluidly between domestic tranquility and feral rage, often in the same scene. Even as Grace’s grasp on reality seems to slip, her turbulence comes off as entirely natural.” – The Atlantic Nov 7, 2025 Full Review Bugonia (2025) 88% EDIT “Bugonia’s provocative premise doesn’t yield a sci-fi thriller. The film instead offers an intimate, unhurried exploration of human cruelty.” – The Atlantic Oct 31, 2025 Full Review The Mastermind (2025) 90% EDIT “The Mastermind isn’t a heist movie so much as a character study that dismantles the criminal himself, one selfish act at a time.” – The Atlantic Oct 26, 2025 Full Review After the Hunt (2025) 37% EDIT “The production design impressively transforms a London soundstage into New Haven, the plot is fabulously convoluted, and Roberts is particularly compelling to watch, clearly relishing the opportunity to deliver a slippery performance. ” – The Atlantic Oct 22, 2025 Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% EDIT “Roofman deftly blends genres to create a low-key crowd-pleaser -- one that avoids merely reveling in what made Manchester notorious in the first place.” – The Atlantic Oct 16, 2025 Full Review Eddington (2025) 68% EDIT “The movie is nasty and cynical -- and also eerily accurate in its rendering of the digital reality of pandemic life. ” – The Atlantic Jul 18, 2025 Full Review 28 Years Later (2025) 88% EDIT “Before the movie began, I worried whether Boyle and Garland would be able to top themselves more than two decades after 28 Days Later; by the time it ended, I was laughing at just how fantastical and wild their efforts were.” – The Atlantic Jun 25, 2025 Full Review Materialists (2025) 77% EDIT “The film’s glossy veneer of confidence, much like that of its lead, belies an uncertainty. Apart from some punchy dialogue probing the economy of marriage, its tale is shallow, with almost nonexistent stakes.” – The Atlantic Jun 20, 2025 Full Review The Life of Chuck (2024) 80% EDIT “I fell for the film’s earnest insistence that each of us has access to an inner world no one else can ever fully know; that message, as trite as it may be, is particularly touching because of its pointed delivery.” – The Atlantic Jun 12, 2025 Full Review Friendship (2024) 88% EDIT “Instead, it fearlessly—and wackily—reckons with how confounding people can be in their bid for one another’s approval: at work, at home, at their new friend’s house while dressed in their finest Ocean View Dining clothing. ” – The Atlantic May 28, 2025 Full Review Disney's Snow White (2025) 39% EDIT “These cursory changes clash with its more modernized lead, and the resulting dissonance is particularly egregious. By stranding Snow White in garish landscapes opposite thinly written scene partners, the movie betrays her.” – The Atlantic Mar 24, 2025 Full Review The Electric State (2025) 14% EDIT “The Electric State is so transparently eager to satisfy as many demographics of viewers as possible that it proves its own message: that a world dependent on business interests and technological optimization dulls artistic potential and human ingenuity.” – The Atlantic Mar 20, 2025 Full Review Mickey 17 (2025) 78% EDIT “The film’s greatest asset, though, may be Pattinson. The actor’s delightfully offbeat performance anchors the story in an endearing humanity. His choices border on cartoonish, but they’re specific enough to make his character’s plight feel recognizable. ” – The Atlantic Mar 8, 2025 Full Review Hard Truths (2024) 95% EDIT “Hard Truths itself is astonishingly sensitive for a portrait of someone who often behaves monstrously. Leigh depicts Pansy’s journey with a wrenching empathy, carefully revealing how her irascibility is caused by burdens both specific and mundane.” – The Atlantic Jan 24, 2025 Full Review September 5 (2024) 92% EDIT “September 5 is effective because it doesn’t claim to say anything original about the perils of reporting and consuming breaking news. It’s simply -- and bluntly -- showing how easily those familiar perils can be overlooked.” – The Atlantic Jan 10, 2025 Full Review The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) 97% EDIT “The emotional reality of living in Iran while holding views that oppose the state, the movie suggests, is anxiety-inducing—almost unfathomably so for those who have never dealt with such restrictions.” – The Atlantic Dec 10, 2024 Full Review Wicked (2024) 88% EDIT “The resulting adaptation satisfyingly combines the grandiosity of a musical and the intimacy of filmmaking. ” – The Atlantic Nov 27, 2024 Full Review Gladiator II (2024) 70% EDIT “It’s so grandiose, the audience at my screening started applauding before a single fight had begun.” – The Atlantic Nov 22, 2024 Full Review Emilia Pérez (2024) 71% EDIT “It seems to revel in its contradictions, mixing crassness with tenderness, pastiche with originality, silliness with sincerity. It’s emotionally manipulative. It’s visually over-the-top. It’s a mess, in other words -- a spectacular, operatic one.” – The Atlantic Nov 17, 2024 Full Review Conclave (2024) 93% EDIT “Despite its heavyweight subject matter, however, the result is remarkably playful; without flattening the importance of the papacy or abandoning the novel’s attention to detail, Conclave exposes the sometimes farcical nature of institutional practices.” – The Atlantic Oct 31, 2024 Full Review The Apprentice (2024) 82% EDIT “A muddy exercise in Trumpology that never answers the biggest question it raises: What does chronicling Trump’s beginnings illuminate about one of the most documented and least mysterious men in recent American history?” – The Atlantic Oct 11, 2024 Full Review Blink Twice (2024) 74% EDIT “Blink Twice feels like a cathartic exercise, a sharp and exciting debut with a strong emotional point of view. If only it didn’t flinch.” – The Atlantic Aug 23, 2024 Full Review The Crow (2024) 22% EDIT “The original Crow is by no means a perfect film -- its dialogue is often corny, its sentimentality heavy-handed -- and I don’t believe the comics are so sacred that they can never be adapted again. But Sanders’s vision is just dull.” – The Atlantic Aug 22, 2024 Full Review Dìdi (2024) 96% EDIT “Dìdi sets itself apart by examining more than just the turbulence of growing pains; it’s also a period piece that understands the flattening effect the internet has on teenagers in particular. ” – The Atlantic Aug 15, 2024 Full Review Trap (2024) 56% EDIT “Full of off-key, seemingly atonal beats that will likely alienate viewers hoping for more conventional horror-movie scares. Yet it also builds to a cohesive whole, and the movie’s peculiarity is gratifying at this stage in the director’s career.” – The Atlantic Aug 5, 2024 Full Review
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