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Loren King
Tomatometer-approved critic
Movies reviews only
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Janet Planet (2023) |
By far one of the best films of this summer, Janet Planet is a small miracle of a movie, carefully constructed with sensitive, specific detail. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Jul 18, 2024
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Water Brother (2024) |
Rhode Island natives Charles Kinnane and Daniel Kinnane direct in a loose, rollicking style that suits the one-of-a-kind Abbruzzi and his Water Bros. legend. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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All of Us Strangers (2023) |
Haigh’s melancholy, romantic ghost story, All of Us Strangers, was one of my favorite films last year and was unjustly overlooked by the Oscars. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Jul 04, 2024
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Sing Sing (2023) |
Sing Sing is about the power of theater to heal, create empathy and transform. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Jul 04, 2024
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Thelma (2024) |
An action caper centered on the title character played by 94-year-old June Squibb, a no-nonsense grandmother who teams up with an old friend, played by veteran actor Richard Roundtree, to avenge scammers who prey on the elderly. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Jul 04, 2024
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Liza: A Truly Terrific Absolutely True Story (2024) |
Bruce David Klein's film traces her life and career with plenty of dazzling archival material, film clips and interviews... - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Jul 04, 2024
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Merchant Ivory (2023) |
Merchant Ivory is essential film history and a fitting tribute to both men and their brilliant careers. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Jul 04, 2024
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Ennio (2021) |
Rich with archival footage and career-spanning interviews, the film is an insightful look at what distinguishes Oates... - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Jul 04, 2024
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Sound of Hope: The Story of Possum Trot (2024) |
True, moving and inspiring... - Loren King
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| Posted Jul 04, 2024
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Late Bloomers (2023) |
Late Bloomers finds a fresh approach to a coming of age and mother/daughter story, - AWFJ.org
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| Posted Jun 21, 2024
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Ghostlight (2024) |
The brilliance of Ghostlight is in its subtle depiction of the power of Shakespeare’s poetry to produce empathy and to transform, if we allow ourselves, to become someone else. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Jun 13, 2024
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The Idea of You (2024) |
Thanks to a smart script and tender performances, The Idea of You is both surprisingly substantial and genuinely romantic. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Jun 07, 2024
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Sisters (2022) |
The film tells a familiar story of family dysfunction and an overburdened, hole-filled social safety net. But it’s depicted with such specificity of place and character that it feels fresh and jolting. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Jun 07, 2024
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Babes (2024) |
Glazer, and especially Buteau, sometimes strike the right note of madcap and truthful. But such hits are mostly overpowered by misfires. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Jun 07, 2024
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Catching Fire: The Story of Anita Pallenberg (2023) |
Alexis Bloom and Svetlana Zill draw on rich archival footage and interviews with friends and Pallenberg’s two surviving adult children, Marlon and Angela, to create a portrait of Pallenberg as a seminal figure of the ‘60s and ‘70s counterculture. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Jun 07, 2024
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Queen of the Deuce (2022) |
Memorable both as a time capsule of the long-gone Times Square, when it was packed with porn, peep shows, strip clubs and pulsating neon, an era mourned by some but not all, and the one-of-a-kind pioneer who presided over a piece of it. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Jun 07, 2024
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The Commandant's Shadow (2024) |
Director Daniela Volker explores generational trauma related to the Holocaust. We take a moving and profound journey with the son, daughter, and grandson of Rudolf Hoss, the Auschwitz commander who murdered millions, and with a survivor and her daughter. - AWFJ.org
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| Posted May 26, 2024
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Girls State (2024) |
[There's a] smart, impassioned, high stakes spirit that permeates the new documentary, Girls State. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted May 02, 2024
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The Peasants (2023) |
Besides the alternately realistic and surreal animation, The Peasants rivals any feature this year in its cinematography, editing and score. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Apr 26, 2024
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Remembering Gene Wilder (2023) |
Remembering Gene Wilder is more than a tribute to a one-of-a- kind performer. It’s also an essential contribution to film history. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Apr 12, 2024
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The League (2023) |
It’s a superb baseball film because it places the game in the context of American social and economic history; it’s a sport film even for people who don’t like sports. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Apr 05, 2024
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Frida (2024) |
The many raw and revealing moments in Frida show why the artist and her art remain just as surprising, moving and relevant today. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Mar 28, 2024
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The Reverend (2021) |
Director Nick Canfield’s celebratory documentary, The Reverend, will likely defy any notion you may have about gospel music or ministry. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Mar 22, 2024
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Origin (2023) |
Epic and intimate, mournful and majestic. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Mar 22, 2024
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Cabrini (2024) |
Cabrini plays on emotion but it’s an effective history lesson that resonates today, with anti-immigrant sentiment in daily discourse. It's humbling to see what Cabrini achieved against all odds through her belief that all humans deserve care and dignity. - AWFJ.org
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| Posted Mar 03, 2024
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Shayda (2023) |
In her compelling feature debut about a young mother’s flight from domestic abuse, Australian-Iranian writer/director Noora Niasari creates tension that simmers from the first scene to the last frame. - AWFJ.org
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| Posted Feb 26, 2024
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The Zone of Interest (2023) |
There’s never been a film about the Holocaust quite like The Zone of Interest, which focuses on the perpetrators, not the victims, and holds disturbing relevance for today. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Feb 23, 2024
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Past Lives (2023) |
Past Lives is truly a modern romance, rich with bittersweet understanding of what it means to live in the present. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Feb 14, 2024
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Poor Things (2023) |
Stone's masterful performance as Bella takes pleasure in her liberation, while recognizing and bristling against misogyny, and rises above the increasing, occasional self-congratulatory bizarreness of the movie. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Feb 14, 2024
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The Taste of Things (2023) |
Tran Anh Hung’s luminous The Taste of Things belongs among the great food films of cinema, such as the classics, Big Night, Babette’s Feast and Eat Drink Man Woman. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Feb 08, 2024
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The Color Purple (2023) |
No doubt the filmmakers wanted to end on a hopeful note, but the finale seems too idealistic. Yet the resiliency and power of The Color Purple is well earned and the performances from its stellar ensemble are unforgettable. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Jan 25, 2024
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Anatomy of a Fall (2023) |
Rustin offers a compelling behind-the-scenes look at the organizing of what would become one of the largest political rallies in American history... The role is a tour de force for Domingo. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Jan 19, 2024
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The Iron Claw (2023) |
The stellar acting of the principals, particularly Efron and White, manages to shine a light of genuine brotherly love into the relentless darkness. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Jan 19, 2024
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Maestro (2023) |
The film is ambitious and stunning in its visual and emotional storytelling. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Dec 15, 2023
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May December (2023) |
With shades of Alfred Hitchcock and Ingmar Bergman’s Persona, May December keeps viewers guessing and off-kilter, but in a good way. The film is subtle, strange and riveting; a heady mix of irresistible but uneasy entertainment. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Dec 07, 2023
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The Holdovers (2023) |
A wry, artful heart-tugger. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Dec 01, 2023
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Invisible Beauty (2023) |
“Invisible Beauty” is a gorgeous film to look at and one that illuminates an important aspect of fashion industry history. It’s also an indelible portrait of a one-of-a-kind trailblazer. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Nov 27, 2023
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The Lady Bird Diaries (2023) |
Porter’s film lets Lady Bird’s recorded voice be the personal testimony to cataclysmic events. She uncovered plenty of new archival footage that she pairs with the audio. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Nov 16, 2023
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Remy & Arletta (2023) |
Remy and Arletta is a rare film about teen girls where intensity is integral to the relationship and its necessary ending comes with both loss and freedom. - AWFJ.org
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| Posted Nov 04, 2023
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Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) |
Kudos to Scorsese’s longtime editor, Thelma Schoonmaker, for a pace that never lags even at three and one-half hours. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Nov 04, 2023
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Joan Baez I Am a Noise (2023) |
The film has the quality of a memoir, with Baez’s hard-won reflections mixed with superb archival material. It’s an absorbing and honest legacy that is fitting for a 60- year career and an extraordinary life. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Oct 12, 2023
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Flora and Son (2023) |
Levitt and Hewson have lovely voices and an engaging rapport that blends a hesitant romance with the joy of creating music that takes them across the universe and into each other’s lives. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Oct 05, 2023
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Lakota Nation vs. United States (2022) |
It is a powerful historical corrective and is timely for the moment we are in when many are eager to censor and erase history. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Sep 28, 2023
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Mickey Hardaway (2023) |
It is refreshing and promising to see a film, especially a first feature, tackle this complex subject with honesty and authenticity. - Loren King
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| Posted Sep 28, 2023
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Carlos (2023) |
Carlos, an enjoyable ride through the life and career of Carlos Santana, is more than a music documentary. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Sep 21, 2023
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Between Two Worlds (2021) |
Juliette Binoche is such a consummate actor that she can easily blend into an ensemble and still emerge the charismatic star. That’s exactly the task she has in Between Two Worlds, an absorbing French drama. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Sep 21, 2023
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War Pony (2022) |
Keough and her co-director, Gina Gammell, [have] made a stunner of a feature debut. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Sep 07, 2023
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Red, White & Royal Blue (2023) |
Don’t expect a political comedy with much substance. Red, White & Royal Blue is easy on the eyes and brain. Mostly, it proves that a gay romantic comedy can be just as bland and schmaltzy as other pairings onscreen. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Aug 18, 2023
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Rodeo (2022) |
Ledru is a revelation, finding unexpected tenderness and empathy with a character surviving on the fringes, particularly in her scenes with Domino’s wife, played by co-writer Antonia Buresi as the two marginalized women find a common bond. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Aug 18, 2023
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
Weir wisely grounds the intense but wearying high seas adventure in the friendship between Aubrey and Paul Bettany as Dr. Stephen Maturin, the ship’s surgeon who tends to the many wounded. - Newport This Week (RI)
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| Posted Aug 03, 2023
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