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2018 / featured / movies / sarah brinks

February 14, 2019

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Sarah’s Top 10 of 2018

10. Support the Girls Support the Girls looks at a day in the life of Lisa (Regina Hall) and her staff at a Hooters-like sports bar. Lisa is a great manager. She is upbeat, she cares about her staff, she...
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2018 / Craig Schroeder / featured / movies

February 13, 2019

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Craig’s Top Ten of 2018

10. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs The Ballad of Buster Scruggs—the Coen Brothers’ long-gestating western anthology—is a film that bounces between comedy and tragedy with demented euphoria. The film opens with a farcical tale of a singing cowboy, a la...
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david bax / featured / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

February 13, 2019

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Isn’t It Romantic: I Don’t Believe You, You’re Not the Truth, by David Bax

Roy Orbison crooning “Pretty Woman” over the opening titles of Todd Strauss-Schulson’s Isn’t It Romantic is just the first of many touches meant to signify how steeped in the world of romantic comedies the film and its world are. In...
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david bax / featured / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

February 7, 2019

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What Men Want: Never Let Them, by David Bax

“Locker room talk.” “Stay in your lane.” “When they go low, we go high.” What Men Want, Adam Shankman’s remake of Nancy Meyers’ What Women Want, tosses every sound bite it can scrape out of the last few years into...

February 18, 2019

Monday Movie: The Decline of Western Civilization, by David Bax

To whatever extent it still exists, the punk rocker’s mentality almost reflexively rejects things that feel calculated to appeal to it; like Grouch Marx, they don’t care to belong to any club that would have them as a member. This...

best of the week / movies

February 15, 2019

Tops Ten and Other Stuff You Might Have Missed This Week

Here are the top five things that went down at Battleship Pretension this week: Josh’s Top Ten of 2018 Isn’t It Romantic: I Don’t Believe You, You’re Not the Truth, by David Bax Episode 621: Sundance 2019 Wrap-Up BP Movie...

2018 / featured / movies / sarah brinks

February 14, 2019

Sarah’s Top 10 of 2018

10. Support the Girls Support the Girls looks at a day in the life of Lisa (Regina Hall) and her staff at a Hooters-like sports bar. Lisa is a great manager. She is upbeat, she cares about her staff, she...

2018 / Craig Schroeder / featured / movies

February 13, 2019

Craig’s Top Ten of 2018

10. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs The Ballad of Buster Scruggs—the Coen Brothers’ long-gestating western anthology—is a film that bounces between comedy and tragedy with demented euphoria. The film opens with a farcical tale of a singing cowboy, a la...

david bax / featured / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

February 13, 2019

Isn’t It Romantic: I Don’t Believe You, You’re Not the Truth, by David Bax

Roy Orbison crooning “Pretty Woman” over the opening titles of Todd Strauss-Schulson’s Isn’t It Romantic is just the first of many touches meant to signify how steeped in the world of romantic comedies the film and its world are. In...

alexander miller / movies / trailer project / video

February 13, 2019

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller #7: Andrew Kam & Johnnie To’s The Big Heat (1988)

movies / reviews / scott nye / Theatrical Review

February 13, 2019

Hotel by the River: White Party, by Scott Nye

It’s nothing but love among Hong Sang-soo fans, but I have noticed at least two factions of sorts crop up in the seven years I’ve been keeping up with his work. The first prizes most his rigidly-structured, more grounded features...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

February 13, 2019

Criterion Prediction #178: Guelwaar, by Alexander Miller

Title: Guelwaar Year: 1992 Director: Ousmane Sembene Cast: Abou Camara, Mame Ndoumbé Diop, Thierno Ndiaye Doss, Myriam Niang Synopsis: Controversy arises in a Senegalese settlement when Guelwaar, a well-known, outspoken activist of the Catholic faith is killed under suspicious circumstances....

movies / reviews / scott nye / Theatrical Review

February 13, 2019

Birds of Passage: Clear Path, by Scott Nye

Ciro Guerra made a huge splash with his excellent 2015 film Embrace of the Serpent, a hallucinatory epic of colonial history that was at turns tragic and hilarious, meditative and beautiful. His new film, which he co-directed with Serpent producer...