Ella Taylor
Ella Taylor is a freelance film critic, book reviewer and feature writer living in Los Angeles.
Born in Israel and raised in London, Taylor taught media studies at the University of Washington in Seattle; her book Prime Time Families: Television Culture in Post-War America was published by the University of California Press.
Taylor has written for Village Voice Media, the LA Weekly, The New York Times, Elle magazine and other publications, and was a regular contributor to KPCC-Los Angeles' weekly film-review show FilmWeek.
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Two male farmhands in Yorkshire find each other in this "full-throttle, grand love story and ... coming-of-age parable" from first-time writer-director Francis Lee. -
Directed and co-written by Gurinder Chadha (who also directed and co-wrote Bend it Like Beckham) this crowd-pleasing, gently revisionist period drama examines the last days of British colonial rule. -
This sweetly funny tale of a recently widowed Orthodox Jew struggling to care for his son offers a humane and sympathetic view of life in a Hasidic enclave. -
In this unsentimental, unflinching, increasingly harrowing film, a young woman in Victorian England internalizes the various cruelties visited upon her ... until she doesn't. -
Director Terry George's historical drama about three people swept up in the 1915 massacre of Armenians lacks subtlety and sophistication, but features powerful, visceral imagery. -
A Swedish curmudgeon slowly comes to accept the help of his neighbors in this familiar, crowd-pleasing film shot through with bracing moments of dark comedy. -
Paul Thomas Anderson is a master of outlining times and places occupied by his strange dreamers. Inherent Vice, set in California in the 1970s, gets many things right, even if it's a bit too epic. -
Ed Helms stars as a naive small-town insurance salesman sent to Iowa's second-biggest city for a convention.Miguel Arteta's film taps a well of pent-up Midwestern aggression — and feels as if its comedy has been earned by experience.
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Bollywood icon Aamir Khan plays Arun, a celebrated painter looking to re-envision his life, in a vivid look at life in a rapidly changing Mumbai. Khan's wife, Kiran Rao, makes her directorial debut.
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Life after prison proves problematic for a too-dutiful murderer in this Norwegian ... comedy? Stellan Skarsgard turns in a deft performance, though critic Ella Taylor says the film that frames it is anything but.
