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Kimber Myers

Kimber Myers is a freelance film and TV critic for 'The Los Angeles Times' and other outlets. Her day job is at a tech company in their content studio, and she has also worked at several entertainment-focused startups, building media partnerships, developing content marketing strategies, and arguing for consistent use of the serial comma in push notification copy.

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Review: Nomadland

Dec 3rd, 2020

Writer/director Chloé Zhao and lead actress Frances McDormand have created one of the most evocative and powerful movies of this strange year.

Review: Run

Nov 19th, 2020

With the pitch-black theater and lack of rescuing distractions, horror movies especially benefit from the big-screen experience. The audience gets a...

Review: <i>The Witches</i> — Kimber Myers

Review: The Witches

Oct 22nd, 2020

Robert Zemeckis’s new take on Roald Dahl’s children’s novel offers up a wild Anne Hathaway performance… and little else of note.

Review: <i>The Glorias</i> — Kimber Myers

Review: The Glorias

Oct 1st, 2020

Julie Taymor’s biopic features some welcome convention busting, but its simplistic hagiography wears thin.

Review: <i>Rent-A-Pal</i> — Kimber Myers

Review: Rent-A-Pal

Sep 10th, 2020

Rent-A-Pal is technically set in 1990, but this throwback thriller is a reminder of how that turn-of-the-decade year was very much still the ‘80s,...

Review: <i>I Used to Go Here</i> — Kimber Myers

Review: I Used to Go Here

Aug 6th, 2020

With a skill that would impress even its writer protagonist, I Used to Go Here excels in its efforts to show, not tell. In just its first five...

Review: <i>Summerland</i> — Kimber Myers

Review: Summerland

Jul 30th, 2020

With all its poignant elements — a World War II setting, a quaint seaside town, a long-lost love, a child who changes an adult’s life for the...

Review: Relic

Jul 9th, 2020

“Don’t forget it,” a scrawled note vainly implores its own writer in Relic, a gutting Australian horror movie about dementia and its...

Review: Babyteeth

Jun 18th, 2020

A glance at Babyteeth’s brief synopsis makes it seem like this shattering Australian tragicomedy could be an adaptation of a Nicholas Sparks...

Review: <i>The High Note</i> — Kimber Myers

Review: The High Note

May 28th, 2020

Like a highly produced pop song that leaves your head the second it’s over, The High Note is pleasant enough while you’re experiencing it, but...

Review: <i>How to Build a Girl</i> — Kimber Myers

Review: How to Build a Girl

May 7th, 2020

How to Build a Girl is … a lot. You have American actress Beanie Feldstein doing a Midlands accent with her Manic Panic red curls spilling out of...

Review: <i>The Other Lamb</i> — Kimber Myers

Review: The Other Lamb

Apr 2nd, 2020

Slipperiness is the only constant in Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska’s English-language debut, which ably straddles the border between drama...

Review: <i>Never Rarely Sometimes Always</i> — Kimber Myers

Review: Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Mar 11th, 2020

At once as intimate as a sigh and as urgent as a klaxon, Never Rarely Sometimes Always is an essential film about abortion that arrives at a...