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Christian Lorentzen
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Christian Lorentzen is the book critic for
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March 21, 2018
Magazine
Christian Lorentzen
Good Boys
The earnest, ironic stylings of Wes Anderson’s “Isle of Dogs”
February 9, 2018
Magazine
Christian Lorentzen
Talk Therapy
Alex Ross Perry’s moody portrait of stifled creativity and tense relationships
December 15, 2017
Magazine
Christian Lorentzen
Cruel Intentions
The violent visions of Michael Haneke
December 14, 2017
Christian Lorentzen
The Post
Plays on Nostalgia for Nixon-Era Journalism
Steven Spielberg casts Ben Bradlee and Katharine Graham as heroes in a slick drama, despite their complicated ties to power.
November 10, 2017
Magazine
Christian Lorentzen
Yorgos Lanthimos’s Silly Sadism
How "The Killing of a Sacred Deer" completes the Greek director's descent into self-parody
October 25, 2017
Magazine
Christian Lorentzen
Ruben Östlund’s
The Square
Savages the Art World
Elizabeth Moss and Dominic West star in a satire on pretension and privilege.
September 4, 2017
Magazine
Christian Lorentzen
The Dardenne Brothers’ Guilty Conscience
“The Unknown Girl” examines a middle-class liberal’s dilemma.
July 25, 2017
Christian Lorentzen
Dunkirk
Manages to Make War Boring
Christopher Nolan's latest offering is high on patriotic schmaltz and low on meaningful commentary.
July 5, 2017
Magazine
Christian Lorentzen
Phantom Pains
The spirit of wounded masculinity haunts America in 'A Ghost Story.'
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