Jessica Kiang

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‘Tell Her I Love Her’ Review: A Heartfelt if Unwieldy Exploration of the Legacies of Two Lost Mothers

The pleasures and the pitfalls of a hybrid format are both in evidence in French actress-turned-director Romane Bohringer‘s “Tell Her I Love Her,” a plaintive, affecting account of her struggle to...

‘Love Me Tender’ Review: Vicky Krieps Ignites an Elegant and Moving Portrait of Motherhood at Odds With Selfhood

Even in supposedly enlightened societies it is practically an article of faith that a woman’s identity as a mother must supercede all her other identities. Not only that: any woman not...

‘The Mastermind’ Review: Kelly Reichardt Steals the Spirit of the ’70s With a Gorgeously Rumpled Arthouse Art-Heist

With an anti-eco-thriller, an anti-buddy-road-movie and a couple of anti-westerns under her belt, Kelly Reichardt may never have met a genre she couldn’t meticulously deconstruct. But rarely has she done so...

‘The Richest Woman in the World’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Stars in a Billionaire-Dynasty Drama That Fails to Scratch the ‘Succession’ Itch

Isabelle Huppert sure likes to work. Why else would the person most likely to raise a regal hand were you to page “our greatest living actress,” in between the roles that...

Jessica Kiang

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