Articles by Laura Di Girolamo

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  Hidden Figures

  Directed by Theodore Melfi

  PUBLISHED Dec 20, 2016

  Hidden Figures is a standard feel-good biopic that follows a familiar "underdogs triumph against adversity" narrative, but it's elevated ab...

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  Creepy

  Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

  Creepy is a tight, tense thriller that makes great use of lingering long takes and light and darkness to tell a story about the evil trappe...

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  As the Gods Will

  Directed by Takashi Miike

  PUBLISHED Oct 18, 2016

  Watching As the Gods Will is like observing a group of people try to solve the world's deadliest escape room. You don't really know them, a...

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  American Honey

  Directed by Andrea Arnold

  PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2016

  American Honey is too long by at least an hour, and while it's inarguably a visually stunning film, it's a meandering odyssey with no real...

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  Indivisible

  Directed by Edoardo de Angelis

  PUBLISHED Sep 13, 2016

  Indivisible is a moving coming-of-age story about two beautiful sisters who are conjoined twins.   Angela and Marianna Fontana, two first-t...

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  Clair Obscur

  Directed by Yesim Ustaoglu

  PUBLISHED Sep 11, 2016

  Turkish director Yesim Ustaoglu's Clair Obscur seems both personal and impersonal at once, a character study of two women that keeps an aca...

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  Morgan

  Directed by Luke Scott

  PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2016

  Robot thrillers that reveal a dark, essential truth about humanity via artificial intelligence are a longstanding tradition, and sleeper su...

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  Florence Foster Jenkins

  Directed by Stephen Frears

  PUBLISHED Aug 10, 2016

  Florence Foster Jenkins is a bit of fluff, but it's a sweet, charming bit of fluff, one that captures the magic of "little white lies" for...