Baked into the story is Hawke's character becoming an expressive and experimental dresser, and costume designer Alana Morshead knocks this out of the park, transforming Eleanor from a schlump into a walking piece of pop art. Hawke makes funny faces when you least expect them, and it's fun to watch. What it has going for it most is Maya Hawke, a very gifted performer who carries herself through the comedy quite well. While he may have been indifferent overall, he praised Hawke’s performance in the film and appreciated how the poppy colorful costumes worked into her storyline. Overall, he calls the film “breezy and agreeable,” saying while it's nothing fantastic, it is amusing. While Jordan Hoffman from TV Guide did not love the movie, he also admits he is not the intended audience for it. It is, in other words, exactly what it set out to be, and with any luck, it'll be named alongside the titles it so admires on many a teen movie listicle to come. Still, Robinson's film is not without things to say, and the combination of a dialed-up Mendes and a dialed-in Hawke make receiving that message a fun, engrossing experience. Using that nostalgia and its ensemble cast, he writes that it was a fun time that fits right in with its predecessors. It then uses that nostalgia to create a film that speaks to the issues of today surrounding social media and streaming. (Hawke, who's got her mother Uma Thurman's smoky-wounded voice and her father's laid-back know-it-all charm, plays every beat just right.)Īlexander Harrison from ScreenRant explains that Do Revenge harnesses the nostalgia of ‘80s and ‘90s movies like Heathers and Clueless. There's more to Eleanor than we initially assume whatever you're predicting in your head as you read this is not quite what the movie gives you. Rudolph,” “Maya Eva Gunst Rudolph,” and “ The Other Maya Rudolph. Maya is sometimes known by the names “Maya e.g. She has contributed writing about Chinese independent cinema to dGenerate Films, Filmmaker Magazine, Radii, ChinaFile, and more. While living in Beijing, Maya directed and produced short films and music videos that have screened at at festivals worldwide. Maya was the bilingual head writer and producer of Zhima Jie, the Chinese language co-production of Sesame Street from 2014-2016. Maya has produced and directed short films and series for Vice Media, Disney/Lucasfilm, UNICEF, American Girl, Mattel, and the Creators Project and has been a post production supervisor on independent features such as The Lovers, Gabriel, Una Noche, and For Ellen among many others. She is an associate producer of A24’s The Last Black Man in San Francisco, a feature directed by Joe Talbot and awarded the US Directing Award at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. She is a producer of Sandi Tan’s Shirkers, which was awarded the Directing Award for World Documentary Cinema at 2018 Sundance Film Festival, and nominated for Best Documentary at the 2018 Independent Spirit and Gotham Awards. Maya produced The Andy Warhol Diaries, a 2022 Emmy-nominated Netflix original documentary series directed by Andrew Rossi and Executive Produced by Ryan Murphy The Devil Next Door, a Netflix original documentary series directed by Daniel Sivan and Yossi Bloch and Cablestreet (Sundance ‘19) directed by Meredith Lackey and Executive Produced by Field of Vision. In 2022, Maya joined Louverture Films as Vice President of Non-Fiction. Rudolph is a filmmaker, writer, and producer.
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