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Phoebe Chen

Make Work

By Phoebe Chen
April 10, 2023
Sculpting time: Kelly Reichardt’s latest, Showing Up, layers questions of time and space, care and concern, in its portrait of art-making

Feeling Seen: Song of the Exile

By Phoebe Chen
April 1, 2020
Family ties: Ann Hui’s 1990 family drama is striking in the way it parcels out knowledge of cultural history as a gradual, lived revelation

The Big Screen: EMMA.

By Phoebe Chen
March 3, 2020
In Autumn de Wilde’s debut, landscapes flatten into Gainsborough pastorals in a simulation of Regency England

Review: Joker

By Phoebe Chen
October 4, 2019
Funny ha ha: Todd Phillips’s provocation has a bungled understanding of its own relation to violence