Owen Gleiberman
Chief Film Critic at Variety
Chief Film Critic for Variety, Author of "Movie Freak" (2016)
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1 week ago |
variety.com | Owen Gleiberman
There’s a certain kind of summer movie that’s so revved and ready to go, so fuel-injected with flash and talent and star power, not to mention an irresistible subject, that before the movie is barely under way you can feel yourself getting excited about being excited. “F1” is one of those movies. It’s an epic professional auto-race drama that looks and moves like a Formula One vehicle: dizzyingly fast, a touch futuristic in its synthetic design, leaving all second thoughts in the dust.
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variety.com | Owen Gleiberman
I’ll never forget the first time Brian Wilson made me see God. It was 1973, and I was sitting in the mostly empty balcony of a second-run movie theater finally watching “American Graffiti,” the movie everyone in my high school was talking about. I liked the film okay, but it didn’t make that much of an impression on me.
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2 weeks ago |
variety.com | Owen Gleiberman
“Barbara Walters: Tell Me Everything” is a documentary a lot like its subject. It’s sharp and inquiring in a playful way. It asks friendly questions but knows just when to toss in a tough one. It sizes up important people with clear-eyed worldly perception, but it’s also enthralled by the seductions of fame and money and power.
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2 weeks ago |
variety.com | Owen Gleiberman
“Everything’s Going to Be Great” is one of those movie titles that should have been ditched after the script attached to it was sold. It’s a title you can’t remember, one that feels too long because it voices a sentiment that’s too vague. (The one thing it lets you know is that everything that happens in the film probably isn’t going to be great. Not exactly a ringing invitation.) The movie fully lives down to that title.
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2 weeks ago |
variety.com | Owen Gleiberman
The title character of “Our Hero, Balthazar” is no one’s idea of a hero. But he’s certainly a creature for our time. Balthazar, played in a hipster fade and with a puppy-dog scowl by Jaeden Martell, is a New York rich kid with a life coach and a divorced mother (Jennifer Ehle) who’s too busy throwing political cocktail parties to pay him much attention.
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"Our Hero, Balthazar," starring Jaeden Martell and Asa Butterfield, is an audacious drama about fake empathy, school shooters and how the online world connects to both. My review from the Tribeca Festival. https://t.co/tbCMat5Nec
No one in the movies stays dead anymore. But the fan service of character resurrection can make the audience feel like there's nothing at stake. https://t.co/MRZdYDe1uI
In the "Something Beautiful" visual album that premiered last night at the #TribecaFestival, Miley Cyrus co-directs an album's worth of music videos, celebrating her sexuality...and herself. https://t.co/nSgz2rPFex
