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david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

September 9, 2021

Blue Bayou: Won’t Ever Drown, by David Bax

Justin Chon made his name as a director with 2017’s deceptively lean, semi-autobiographical Gook, a film that set itself apart from the indie pack with indelible images in searing black and white. Chon’s new film, Blue Bayou, in which he...

dave platt / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

July 30, 2021

The Green Knight: Off With His Head, by Dave Platt

“Tell me a tale of thyself, so that I may know thee.” “I have none to tell.” “Yet.” This exchange, early on in David Lowery’s stunning new film, The Green Knight, between King Arthur, his nephew Gawain, and Queen Guinevere...

2020 / david bax / movies / reviews / sundance / sundance 2020 / Theatrical Review

January 27, 2020

Sundance 2020: The Glorias, by David Bax

Right from the opening sequence, in which Gloria Steinem (Julianne Moore) rides a bus in black and white as the world outside becomes colorized bit by bit, Pleasantville-style, it’s apparent that Julie Taymor’s The Glorias is going to be very...

movies / scott nye

September 3, 2017

“Messy” Melodrama, by Scott Nye

I can hardly imagine when melodrama hasn’t excited me, nor indeed a time when it hasn’t been casually dismissed; either as an easy shorthand for emotive performance, or as a genre entirely. As the cultural pendulum has swung more and...

Tagged: Alicia Vikander

Blue Bayou: Won’t Ever Drown, by David Bax

The Green Knight: Off With His Head, by Dave Platt

Sundance 2020: The Glorias, by David Bax

“Messy” Melodrama, by Scott Nye

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