Alison Willmore
Film Critic at New York Magazine
Film Critic at Vulture
Film critic at @Vulture/@NYMag. All I do is eat and sleep and sing, wishing every show was the last show.
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1 week ago |
vulture.com | Alison Willmore
G20 is a thriller in which a group of terrorists holds several heads of state hostage at the South African hotel where they’ve gathered for the annual Group of 20 summit, using them as leverage to destabilize the world economy — until the American president, played by Viola Davis, saves the day through a combination of dedication and bloodshed. The irony is not the sort that’s possible to miss.
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2 weeks ago |
vulture.com | Alison Willmore
Rami Malek won his Oscar for Bohemian Rhapsody in 2019, and ever since, he’s idled in a series of increasingly unmemorable roles, from the less grizzled of the two detectives in the odd neo-noir The Little Things to a lesser Bond villain in No Time to Die, then onto a nefarious textile heir in Amsterdam and a small appearance as David L. Hill, one of the sprawling assemblage of physicists in Oppenheimer.
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2 weeks ago |
vulture.com | Alison Willmore
Newark, New Jersey, doesn’t get showcased onscreen all that often — almost never when compared to New York, which sprawls about ten miles and a whole universe of urban mythology away. But Gazer, a promising indie from Ryan J. Sloan and Ariella Mastroianni, stretches into the city and its surrounding areas like a long-limbed cat.
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3 weeks ago |
vulture.com | Alison Willmore
There is a twist in this baffling small-town thriller starring Nicole Kidman, but it doesn’t illuminate anything at all. Holland, Michigan, is a real town, though you’d be forgiven for assuming it’s a fictional creation when watching Holland, a baffling thriller starring Nicole Kidman that’s now streaming on Amazon Prime.
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1 month ago |
vulture.com | Alison Willmore
We spend Magazine Dreams waiting for the main character to hurt someone. The movie floats that threat, or promise, early on, in a scene where Killian Maddox (Jonathan Majors) meets with a counselor played by Harriet Sansom Harris.
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I don't know that it's my favorite film of the decade — I don't know what my favorite film of the decade is — but it's hard to think of another one that's aged this well https://t.co/pqRs5r9IUF