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Alex Leininger

Alex Leininger's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Pain and Glory (2019) 96% 8/10 EDIT “Pain and Glory is a celebration of art, not just as a form of entertainment or provocation, but as lifeblood.” – PopMatters Oct 10, 2019 Full Review Once Upon a Time... In Hollywood (2019) 86% 5/10 EDIT “Not only is this one of Tarantino's least risky films, it's also one of his most forgettable.” – PopMatters Jul 30, 2019 Full Review The Dead Don't Die (2019) 55% EDIT “It's a smart if minor work from a masterfully innovative director.” – PopMatters Jun 19, 2019 Full Review Booksmart (2019) 96% 7/10 EDIT “Booksmart's greatest strengths are in its actors and its script, both of which help elevate these admittedly low-stakes shenanigans into undeniably entertaining territory.” – PopMatters May 31, 2019 Full Review The Souvenir (2019) 90% 8/10 EDIT “It's clearly a relationship destined for failure, and yet Hogg doesn't take it where one might expect.” – PopMatters May 21, 2019 Full Review Her Smell (2018) 83% EDIT “Her Smell's brilliance lies in its ability to be many things at once.” – PopMatters Apr 18, 2019 Full Review High Life (2018) 83% EDIT “High Life is more a series of tensions and breaking points than it is a traditionally satisfying space narrative, but Denis's allegiance to directors like Tarkovsky and Kubrick offers an intriguing view of humanity at the gates of the final frontier.” – PopMatters Apr 11, 2019 Full Review Gloria Bell (2018) 90% 7/10 EDIT “Sebastián Lelio's fascination with womanhood and desire have culminated in Gloria Bell, with actor Julianne Moore tailor-made to its particular kind of searching melancholy.” – PopMatters Mar 14, 2019 Full Review Isn't It Romantic (2019) 70% 6/10 EDIT “Isn't It Romantic is just as silly and cliché as the rom-coms it claims to satirize, and yet in execution it's fully, inoffensively enjoyable.” – PopMatters Feb 21, 2019 Full Review Arctic (2018) 91% 6/10 EDIT “Joe Penna's debut, survival film Arctic, is yet another showcase for the formidable Mads Mikkelsen, who continues to carve out a space in modern moviemaking that few other actors could occupy.” – PopMatters Feb 4, 2019 Full Review Glass (2019) 37% 5/10 EDIT “James McAvoy's impressive acting and fleeting moments of powerful imagery dazzle in M. Night Shyamalan's Glass, but that can't make up for the film's shattered second half.” – PopMatters Jan 25, 2019 Full Review Cold War (2018) 92% 8/10 EDIT “Cold War, like Ida before it, harkens back to midcentury world cinema, resuscitating its distinctly philosophical outlook while remaining current today and likely for decades to come.” – PopMatters Jan 9, 2019 Full Review Destroyer (2018) 74% 6/10 EDIT “The most revolutionary thing Kusama's Destroyer isn't the antiheroism, but its genuine search for the goodness of a woman who's made objectively bad decisions.” – PopMatters Jan 7, 2019 Full Review The House That Jack Built (2018) 59% EDIT “It's almost a relief when, surrounded by the fiery pits, Jack falls. So too, it seems, has von Trier.” – PopMatters Dec 20, 2018 Full Review Vox Lux (2018) 62% 7/10 EDIT “ox Lux, has a chaotic relationship with celebrity and carries a heavy - some might say overloaded - symbolic heft. How is it that it's still so fun?” – PopMatters Dec 11, 2018 Full Review Happy as Lazzaro (2018) 91% 7/10 EDIT “Happy as Lazzaro is well-attuned to exploitation and misery, but it doesn't beckon audiences to shed tears. The real vision is a more cynical one.” – PopMatters Dec 10, 2018 Full Review Burning (2018) 95% EDIT “Burning is more interested in exploring ennui and desperation in the abstract than offering distinct answers about its characters, and it's all the more riveting because of it.” – PopMatters Dec 5, 2018 Full Review Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (2018) 90% EDIT “[M.I.A's] overarching story of art, politics and disenchantment, so common to the music documentary, is satisfying as an argument against artifice. M.I.A., the artist, activist and person, is everything you've heard and more.” – PopMatters Nov 27, 2018 Full Review Widows (2018) 91% EDIT “McQueen's latest may not be as singular a success as his previous efforts, but what it manages to do with its tremendously ambitious vision is to create a brilliantly imperfect heist drama.” – PopMatters Nov 26, 2018 Full Review Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018) 98% 7/10 EDIT “Can You Ever Forgive Me?'s turn of events have a flair of tragedy, but the specificity with which Israel's misery is wrought speaks to the true nature of the story.” – PopMatters Nov 5, 2018 Full Review Colette (2018) 87% 8/10 EDIT “By imbuing the ornate decoration of a period piece with a uniquely modern sense of righteousness, it breathes new life into the genre.” – PopMatters Oct 17, 2018 Full Review
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