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Adam Solomons

Adam Solomons is a critic and journalist who currently combines his love for films with a News Reporter role at British tabloid The Daily Star. A Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic with bylines at Sight & Sound and The Quietus, Adam has also been a political journalist. His favourite movie is Toy Story 2.
Blonde. L to R: Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe and Cinematographer Chayse Irvin. Cr. Matt Kennedy / Netflix © 2022 ‘Blonde’ cinematographer Chayse Irvin on deconstructing Marilyn Monroe, art vs. consumption and having to say no to Beyoncé

‘Blonde’ cinematographer Chayse Irvin on deconstructing Marilyn Monroe, art vs. consumption and having to say no to Beyoncé

Adam Solomons September 27, 2022
The number of people who have said “no” to Beyoncé can probably be counted on two hands, maybe one. Chayse Irvin is one of them.... Read More
lonitsza_the_kiev_trial_0 ‘The Kiev Trial’ review: Sergei Loznitsa’s latest dip into the archives explores the banality of Nazi evil in Ukraine [B-] | Venice

‘The Kiev Trial’ review: Sergei Loznitsa’s latest dip into the archives explores the banality of Nazi evil in Ukraine [B-] | Venice

Adam Solomons September 10, 2022
On Venice’s Lido island, documentarian Sergei Loznitsa was greeted like an exiled novelist, or an ex-political prisoner finally able to meet his adoring fans. Yet... Read More
Blonde. Ana de Armas as Marilyn Monroe. Cr. Netflix © 2022 ‘Blonde’ review: Ana de Armas plays Marilyn Monroe the celebrity in Andrew Dominik’s incendiary but sometimes frustratingly conventional biopic [B] | Venice Film Festival

‘Blonde’ review: Ana de Armas plays Marilyn Monroe the celebrity in Andrew Dominik’s incendiary but sometimes frustratingly conventional biopic [B] | Venice Film Festival

Adam Solomons September 8, 2022
In a lively interview with Sight & Sound to mark the release of Blonde, director Andrew Dominik describes his mission as recreating the “images” of... Read More
hill_dead_for_a_dollar ‘Dead for a Dollar’ review: Walter Hill’s nostalgic Western is old-fashioned in good ways and bad [B] | Venice Film Festival

‘Dead for a Dollar’ review: Walter Hill’s nostalgic Western is old-fashioned in good ways and bad [B] | Venice Film Festival

Adam Solomons September 6, 2022
An entertaining B-movie rather than a serious, self-sufficient drama, Western schlockfest Dead for a Dollar justifies its nostalgic existence on the grounds that it allows... Read More
hogg_the_eternal_daughter ‘The Eternal Daughter’ review: Tilda Swinton shines in Joanna Hogg’s painful, personal drama [A] | Venice Film Festival

‘The Eternal Daughter’ review: Tilda Swinton shines in Joanna Hogg’s painful, personal drama [A] | Venice Film Festival

Adam Solomons September 6, 2022
Telling someone they are being “very British” is almost never meant as a compliment. The cursed phrase connotes repression, quiet, politeness over honesty, a love... Read More
Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell in the film THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN. Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. � 2022 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved. ‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ review: Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell fight a personal Irish Civil War in Martin McDonagh’s green and black comedy [B+] | Venice Film Festival

‘The Banshees of Inisherin’ review: Brendan Gleeson and Colin Farrell fight a personal Irish Civil War in Martin McDonagh’s green and black comedy [B+] | Venice Film Festival

Adam Solomons September 5, 2022
Pádraic (Colin Farrell) is a happy-go-lucky guy. He walks fictional Irish island Inisherin, in April 1923, as if he gets on with everyone, and convinces... Read More
schrader_master_gardener ‘Master Gardener’ review: Paul Schrader’s latest tortured soul fare is rotten to its roots [D] | Venice Review

‘Master Gardener’ review: Paul Schrader’s latest tortured soul fare is rotten to its roots [D] | Venice Review

Adam Solomons September 4, 2022
At Barcelona Football Club’s fearsome home ground Camp Nou, the world’s largest soccer stadium, devotees disappointed by their team’s performance will start whistling and waving... Read More
un_couple_ ‘Un Couple’ review: Frederick Wiseman’s first ever ‘fictional’ film imbues Tolstoy in his strange, artful ode to a woman [B] | Venice Film Festival

‘Un Couple’ review: Frederick Wiseman’s first ever ‘fictional’ film imbues Tolstoy in his strange, artful ode to a woman [B] | Venice Film Festival

Adam Solomons September 2, 2022
Un Couple has been described as legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s first fictional, feature-length film. In truth it is neither. The 64-minute series of monologues performed... Read More
Cate Blanchett stars as Lydia Tár in director Todd Field's TÁR, a Focus Features release. Credit: Courtesy of Focus Features ‘Tár’ review: Maestra Cate Blanchett tears up the rulebook with her best work in years in Todd Field’s wildly entertaining and expressionistic return [A-] | Venice Film Festival

‘Tár’ review: Maestra Cate Blanchett tears up the rulebook with her best work in years in Todd Field’s wildly entertaining and expressionistic return [A-] | Venice Film Festival

Adam Solomons September 1, 2022
Cate Blanchett has never been a bad actress, but she has rarely been this good. To say she “stars” in wildly entertaining, surprisingly funny drama... Read More
White Noise. (L to R) Sam Nivola as Heinrich, Adam Driver as Jack, May Nivola as Steffie, Greta Gerwig as Babette, Dean Moore/Henry Moore as Wilder and Raffey Cassidy as Denise in White Noise. Cr. Wilson Webb/Netflix © 2022 ‘White Noise’ review: Noah Baumbach’s 1980s family drama builds up steam and lets off a whimper [B] | Venice Film Festival

‘White Noise’ review: Noah Baumbach’s 1980s family drama builds up steam and lets off a whimper [B] | Venice Film Festival

Adam Solomons August 31, 2022
Edgier and more expressionistic than anything we’ve seen from a director whose commercial sensibility can sometimes border on cautious, White Noise is a markedly ambitious,... Read More
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