Contributions from David Jenkins | Little White Lies

Contributor David Jenkins

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Review

Trolls Band Together – NSYNC fandom rise up!

by David Jenkins

The very-belated reformation of US boyband NSYNC is the central hook for this day-glo second sequel to the surprisingly beloved Trolls franchise.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Review

Killers of the Flower Moon review – Scorsese’s prestige epic

by David Jenkins

Martin Scorsese’s wistful remembrance of tragedies that befell the Osage nation is a film of high seriousness and low spectacle.

5
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Interviews

Misan Harriman: “There is grace in the process of having open wounds.”

by David Jenkins

The famed photographer turns his hand at filmmaking with a study of extreme trauma and slow healing in The After.
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Festivals

Baltimore – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Imogen Poots shines in this angular, fragmented portrait of English rose-turned-firebrand activist Rose Dugdale from Irish filmmakers Joe Lawlor and Christine Molloy.
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Festivals

Celluloid Underground – first-look review

by David Jenkins

This fascinating and melancholy documentary sees an Iranian exile in London looking back to the stranger-than-fiction roots of his formative cinephelia.
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Review

Golda – a smokey, talky historical biopic

by David Jenkins

Helen Mirren dons heavy prosthetics as one-time Israeli prime minister Golda Mair in this drab geopolitical retelling of the 1973 Yom Kippur War.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
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Festivals

Un Amor – first-look review

by David Jenkins

This steamy and giddily uneven rural romance from Spanish filmmaker Isabel Coixet is almost saved by Laia Costa’s committed central performance.
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Festivals

Kalak – first-look review

by David Jenkins

This Greenland-set drama from Danish director Isabella Eklöf, about a husband and father dealing with the trauma of abuse, makes for oppressively grim and only occasionally revelatory viewing.
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Festivals

A Silence – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Reliable Belgian director Joachim Lafosse serves up more lurid scandal sheet fodder in this dismal tale of a wife and mother trying to sweep her husband’s vile transgressions under the rug.
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Festivals

Ex-Husbands – first-look review

by David Jenkins

Amiable American comedy of dented male egos in which Griffin Dunne’s recent divorcee accidentally crashes his son’s bachelor party.