Category: reviews

February 13, 2020

Ordinary Love: Into the Unknown, by Scott Nye

You get sick, or your spouse gets sick. The diagnosis makes clear that this won’t be an easy illness. It might take up your year and be over, or that year might be the last. But it will be hard,...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

February 12, 2020

L’Innocente: Who, Me?, by David Bax

There’s a superficial version of this review in which I try to figure out what the title of Luchino Visconti’s final film, L’Innocente (newly restored in HD and opening at Film Forum this week), means. Well, obviously, it means “The...

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February 11, 2020

The Cordillera of Dreams: Nostalgia for the Rocks, by David Bax

If every documentary is now going to start (and be replete) with drone footage, at least we’ve got filmmakers with as striking an eye for natural beauty as Patricio Guzmán to execute these shots. As his camera soars over and...

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February 8, 2020

The Lodge: Insane Isolation, by Tyler Smith

Mental illness has served as an efficient horror bogeyman for over a century now. From The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari to Psycho to The Silence of the Lambs to Split, many of the best films ever made have created drama out of insane characters acting according to...

josh long / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

February 6, 2020

The 2020 Oscar-Nominated Live Action Short Films: Weight, What?, by Josh Long

Short films! You don’t usually watch them unless they’re nominated for an Academy Award, or if one of your friends made one. Fortunately for you, it’s Oscar season, so you’re likely falling into the first category. Here’s the breakdown of...

dayne linford / home video hovel / movies / reviews

February 5, 2020

Home Video Hovel: The Titfield Thunderbolt, by Dayne Linford

With a name like The Titfield Thunderbolt, the director of A Fish Called Wanda (1988), and the same studio that made gems like The Ladykillers (1955) and Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949), there’s the understandable feeling that this film really...

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January 30, 2020

Sundance 2020: Minari, by David Bax

In 1980, Ronald Reagan campaigned heavily to America’s farmers, who were faltering after a decade of rising gas and oil prices and Cold War embargoes, promising to turn things around for them. But by 1985, the first year of Reagan’s...

dayne linford / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

January 29, 2020

The 2020 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short Films: The Fear is in Our Bodies, by Dayne Linford

As a critic, one of the most interesting aspects of watching the nominated short films, of any variety, is the growing awareness of a thematic strain, a little something that comes up again and again, as if the films themselves...

alexander miller / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

January 29, 2020

The 2020 Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films, by Alexander Miller

DAUGHTER Time’s fleeting transience and the damaging effects of guilt that can upset the relationship between a father and Daughter is the emotional thrust of this year’s obligatory Eastern European stop-motion candidate. There’s no doubting the emotional sincerity of Daria...

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January 29, 2020

Sundance 2020: Whirlybird, by David Bax

Of all the fascinating ground Matt Yoka’s Whirlybird covers, it is perhaps most crucially a transgender story. Even when it’s not directly about that, the fact of it is there every time one of the interviewees refers to the movie’s...

Category: reviews

Ordinary Love: Into the Unknown, by Scott Nye

L’Innocente: Who, Me?, by David Bax

The Cordillera of Dreams: Nostalgia for the Rocks, by David Bax

The Lodge: Insane Isolation, by Tyler Smith

The 2020 Oscar-Nominated Live Action Short Films: Weight, What?, by Josh Long

Home Video Hovel: The Titfield Thunderbolt, by Dayne Linford

Sundance 2020: Minari, by David Bax

The 2020 Oscar-Nominated Documentary Short Films: The Fear is in Our Bodies, by Dayne Linford

The 2020 Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Films, by Alexander Miller

Sundance 2020: Whirlybird, by David Bax

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