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Sophie Mayer

Sophie Mayer's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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Born in Flames (1983) 89% EDIT “Born in Flames' continued resonance and growing popularity suggests... that we need radical approaches to image-and-sound making more than ever.” – Sight & Sound Mar 19, 2021 Full Review Frozen II (2019) 77% EDIT “In Frozen II climate justice moves from allegorical substrate to the centre of the story.” – Sight & Sound Nov 22, 2019 Full Review Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen (2018) 92% EDIT “As Merata shows, Mita's entire life was a fight - one that Hepi continues with this documentary that looks not only to secure Mita's legacy but enlarge it.” – Sight & Sound Oct 7, 2019 Full Review El Bulli: Cooking in Progress (2010) 60% EDIT “Wetzel's documentary never really gets under Adrià's skin - but the creation of the frozen, juiced, glossy surfaces of the food is fascinating.” – Sight & Sound Aug 1, 2018 Full Review On the Road (2012) 47% EDIT “More an extended Urban Outfitters advertisement than an essay on, or into, the exciting experiments of Beat Cinema.” – Sight & Sound Jul 31, 2018 Full Review Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (2010) 76% EDIT “Rather than taking time to wonder, to immerse, or even to grieve at the crucial moments of the story, the film and its characters are driven on towards this future confrontation with videogame logic and an endless flow of exposition-based dialogue.” – Sight & Sound Jul 10, 2018 Full Review Sleeping Beauty (2011) 48% EDIT “Sleeping Beauty aspires to create a... haunted disconnect between Lucy's presentation and her subjectivity. Yet Leigh isn't able to muster a cinematic equivalent of a first-person narration that would convey Lucy's interiority to the viewer.” – Sight & Sound Jul 9, 2018 Full Review The Muppets (2011) 95% EDIT “It's a film for 2012, for the 99 per cent, for the Occupiers who have been criticised as Starbucks-quaffing smartphone revolutionaries seeking a rainbow connection that could only be called 'kermunism'.” – Sight & Sound Jul 9, 2018 Full Review Much Ado About Nothing (2012) 87% EDIT “DP Jay Hunter's camera floats like a butterfly through doorways and windows, stinging as it catches characters in moments of eavesdropping-inspired stunned epiphany.” – Sight & Sound Apr 4, 2018 Full Review The Party (2017) 82% EDIT “This is a comedy that bites because it is utterly and urgently of our moment.” – Sight & Sound Oct 17, 2017 Full Review Signature Move (2017) 100% EDIT “In telling their story, Reeder and Mirza finally make good on the abruption of the North American New Queer Cinema by 9/11, returning to the celebratory multicultural, intergenerational, complex lesbian films of the last century's end.” – Sight & Sound Apr 27, 2017 Full Review Certain Women (2016) 92% EDIT “Certain Women would like you to listen, but it's not going to shout for your attention.” – Another Gaze Mar 10, 2017 Full Review The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 (2015) 70% EDIT “There are frequent close-ups that showcase Jennifer Lawrence's extraordinary expressiveness; like Katniss for the rebels, Lawrence is the film's figurehead, not only its protagonist but also bearing the entire burden of representing its narrative.” – Sight & Sound Nov 20, 2015 Full Review A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014) 96% EDIT “Amirpour, a singer and DJ, uses the soundtrack throughout with such verve and rhythm that the film moves towards being a musical.” – Sight & Sound May 22, 2015 Full Review Dreamcatcher (2015) 100% EDIT “From street to cell, this is a precise, thoroughgoing indictment of the systemic sexism, racism and classism that creates a climate of endemic sex work, and it combines this with bold and revelatory strategies for making change.” – Sight & Sound Mar 5, 2015 Full Review The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 (2014) 70% EDIT “When director Francis Lawrence takes chances by moving away from the book, the film sparkles.” – Sight & Sound Nov 20, 2014 Full Review Belle (2013) 84% EDIT “This inextricable intertwining of love and justice, private and public, personal and political, is the film's great cri de coeur and its structural brilliance, as costume and courtroom drama comment on, and merge into, each other.” – Sight & Sound Jun 13, 2014 Full Review The Punk Singer (2013) 91% EDIT “Anderson's film -- a scrappy, exuberant battler like its subject -- shows how Hanna has transmuted a hunger borne of body-image pressure into a hunger to change the world.” – Sight & Sound May 29, 2014 Full Review Stories We Tell (2012) 94% EDIT “Stories We Tell, uniquely, reveals its process as if we are thinking, sifting and selecting along with the filmmaker.” – Sight & Sound Dec 31, 2013 Full Review Frances Ha (2012) 92% EDIT “The thoughtfulness and commitment of Gerwig's performance in its shifts from chaotic exuberance to rigorous rehearsal suggest that she is the more interesting artist to watch.” – Sight & Sound Dec 11, 2013 Full Review The Kids Are All Right (2010) 93% EDIT “The film joyfully allows us to embrace, rather than escape, the wonderful, awkward embarrassment of familial love.” – Sight & Sound Nov 2, 2010 Full Review The Beaches of Agnès (2008) 96% 4/5 EDIT “It's impossible not to open your heart to this film.” – Little White Lies Oct 4, 2009 Full Review
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