| | Pamela, a Love Story (2023) | The end result is a revealing and sometimes surprisingly sad portrait, even if, predictably, it fails to sit with the contradictions of her persona. - BuzzFeed News |
| | Amber: The Girl Behind the Alert (2023) | Even with the documentary’s initial emphasis on the family’s voices, its clunky, repetitive storytelling does a disservice to the case. - BuzzFeed News |
| | Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance with Somebody (2022) | Kasi Lemmons's Whitney Houston biopic strikes the right balance between conveying the joy of the star's music and honoring the truth of her pain. - BuzzFeed News |
| | Taylor Swift: Miss Americana (2020) | Swift has clearly felt that pressure — to be young and relatable and relevant — throughout her career, but it’s certainly not unique to her experience. - BuzzFeed News |
| | Bombshell (2019) | By failing to contextualize their race and class, Bombshell overlooks how complicated the real women who ousted Roger Ailes are. - BuzzFeed News |
| | Jawline (2019) | In some ways, Jawline is so in thrall to those old narratives that it sometimes fails to explore what is actually new...still, its sober approach is a welcome change of tone for coverage of an industry that is here to stay. - BuzzFeed News |
| | Rocketman (2019) | Rocketman is, in some ways, a sad reminder that even in its most supposedly fantastic imaginings, Hollywood fantasies can still be so straight. - BuzzFeed News |
| | Knock Down the House (2019) | Still, it’s a reminder of how rare it is to get a clear, sustained look at any women in politics, and a credit to the film’s unique perspective and fascinating protagonists, that it leaves you wanting more, not less... - BuzzFeed News |
| | Whitney (2018) | Whitney offers a more complex portrait of the family that both aided Houston's rise and contributed to her downfall. - BuzzFeed News |
| | Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) | In trying to tell Mercury’s queer story through his straight bandmates’ eyes, the new Queen biopic ends up saying almost nothing at all. - BuzzFeed News |
| | Operation Varsity Blues: The College Admissions Scandal (2021) | The documentary makes clear that the admissions scandal wasn’t just about one scammer or millionaire parents, but that the entire system is rigged in favor of those who already benefit from being upper class. - BuzzFeed News |
| | Billie Eilish: The World's a Little Blurry (2021) | The World’s a Little Blurry hews close to the Eilish mythology, yet still offers a rare glimpse behind the making of a teen pop star. - BuzzFeed News |
| | Promising Young Woman (2020) | The film’s take on power and trauma is deeper than the usual pop feminism. - BuzzFeed News |
| | Britney Vs Spears (2021) | Netflix’s Britney vs. Spears raises lingering questions more directly than even Framing Britney Spears did. - BuzzFeed News |
| | Marry Me (2022) | The story lacks the confidence to disrupt early aughts rom-com conventions even as it talks about breaking them. - BuzzFeed News |
| | Red Rocket (2021) | I miss quieter movies with their slow-build character studies. Watching director Sean Baker's Red Rocket, a portrait of fictional aging porn actor Mikey Saber (Simon Rex), was a reminder of how great those can be. - BuzzFeed News |
| | The Capote Tapes (2020) | Through the director's sensitive rendering, Tapes gets at the weight Capote felt in existing in an era where he had to play a court jester and adds insight into his life, defiant final act, and downfall. - BuzzFeed News |
| | House of Gucci (2021) | Unambitious and underwhelming. - BuzzFeed News |
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