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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Hollywood returns again to the story of the FBI's first boss — this time in a Clint Eastwood biopic, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, that like Hoover himself seems more than a little dry.
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What happens when aging punk rockers become fathers? They go all gooey inside, just like regular guys. A surprisingly charming documentary sheds light on the challenges of making a family while keeping a punk-scene presence alive.
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In this spy thriller, a retired CIA operative (Richard Gere) teams up with a rookie FBI agent (Topher Grace) to investigate the brutal killing of a U.S. senator who had business ties to Russia.
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Elizabeth Olsen is spellbindingly mercurial as a paranoid young woman struggling to reconnect with her family after leaving an abusive cult. (Recommended)
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A full-on family brawl is the kind of fodder that makes for a good time at the movies, at least when all the elements are in place. Critic Ella Taylor reports that despite its A-list cast, Dennis Lee's high-octane melodrama doesn't quite catch fire.
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Two men (Tom Cullen and Chris New) meet at a nightclub one Friday and spend the next 48 hours together, falling fractiously and perhaps ill-fatedly in love.
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A Boston woman juggles marriage, children and a high-stress job. Critic Ella Taylor says it's a lazy mess made worse by bad choices — starting with the casting of Sarah Jessica Parker as a hard-charging, high-powered investment banker.