Jonathan Goldsbie

Jonathan Goldsbie

Favorite films

  • Magnolia
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
  • The Last Laugh
  • Zootopia

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  • Emilia Pérez

    ★★★½

  • Saturday Night

    ★★★

  • All About My Mother

    ★★★★

  • When I Saw You

    ★★★½

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  • Emilia Pérez

    Emilia Pérez

    ★★★½

    If you can approach it merely as an oddity from Cannes — an aesthetic experiment whose primary triumph is that it exists at all — then it's actually pretty delightful. (It probably also helps to see it on the big screen.) Even its being mind-bogglingly offensive just adds to the dazzlement of "I can't believe this got made."

    Viewed as a Best Picture front-runner, however, it's every bit as excruciating as you've heard. That Oscar voters "largely consider the movie…

  • All About My Mother

    All About My Mother

    ★★★★

    When I first saw this movie, in my early 20s, I was eviscerated by its thunderous sadness. Revisiting it now, in my late 30s, I find its vision — of redemption through forgiveness and mutual understanding — to be warmly, movingly utopian.

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  • No Other Land

    No Other Land

    ★★★★½

    An astonishing film about the utility — and limits — of activism and journalism in the face of relentless oppression.

    And the kind of movie where, in the absence of a Q&A, the TIFF audience exits the theatre in stunned near-silence.

  • Anora

    Anora

    ★★★★

    Russian oligarchs and Wirecutter agree: the Ultimate Ears Wonderboom 3 is the Best Portable Bluetooth Speaker.