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david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

September 12, 2019

The Weekend: Agua Amarga, by David Bax

This review originally ran as a part of our AFI Fest 2018 coverage. Stella Meghie’s The Weekend stumbles clumsily out of the gate. To some extent, this might be a matter of personal taste as I can count on one...

2019 / david bax / featured / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review / tiff / tiff 2019

September 12, 2019

TIFF 2019: Jojo Rabbit, by David Bax

Jojo Rabbit‘s opening titles play out against stock footage of Germans “heil”ing Adolf Hitler soundtracked by The Beatles singing “Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand” and the sound of screaming fans. There is satirical potential in reducing Hitler to the level...

2019 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review / tiff / tiff 2019

September 10, 2019

TIFF 2019: Knives Out, by David Bax

From, I suppose, a marketing standpoint, the major selling point of Rian Johnson’s Knives Out is its cast. The Hercule Poirot-esque private investigator is played by Daniel Craig; his police detective liaison is LaKeith Stanfield; and the family of wealthy...

2019 / david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review / tiff / tiff 2019

September 7, 2019

TIFF 2019: The Personal History of David Copperfield, by David Bax

As a writer and director of motion pictures, Armando Iannucci has so far stuck to the absurd brutality of politics, both the modern day, lightly fictionalized kind (In the Loop) and the historical kind (The Death of Stalin). These are...

david bax / monday movie / movies

August 26, 2019

Monday Movie: Full Moon High, by David Bax

This article originally ran as part of a Home Video Hovel review. Four years before being a werewolf made Michael J. Fox good at basketball, being a werewolf made Adam Arkin good at football. The sports angle was a 1980s...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

August 22, 2019

Brittany Runs a Marathon: Unfinished, by David Bax

Whatever else you might say about Brittany Runs a Marathon, you can’t say director Paul Downs Colaizzo’s heart isn’t in the right place. This is a movie that is overwhelmingly nice to its characters and its audience, an effect it...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

August 15, 2019

Good Boys: Wasted Youth, by David Bax

It doesn’t help that, by the time the song blared onto the soundtrack of Gene Stupnitsky’s Good Boys, the film was already beyond redemption but I still nearly threw my hands in the air in the theater and shouted, “For...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

August 9, 2019

The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Dog’s End of Life Plan, by David Bax

Simon Curtis’ The Art of Racing in the Rain is kind of two different movies in one. First, you’ve got the treacly, familiar (but competently executed) melodrama you’re probably expecting, complete with all the requisite milestones of birth, marriage, illness...

david bax / home video hovel / movies / reviews

August 7, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Do the Right Thing, by David Bax

We’re all familiar with the movie trope of the dance party ending (I’m sure that, like me, everyone else thinks first of Dan Aykroyd shimmying to “Land of a Thousand Dances” at the end of The Great Outdoors, right?). But...

i do movies badly / jim rohner / movies / podcast

August 7, 2019

I Do Movies Badly: Naked

Mike Leigh’s Naked is led by a phenomenal performance by David Thewlis that takes us inside the world of a self-loathing intellectual who is likely using his brilliance to keep people at an emotional distance as he seeks to embrace a nihilism...

Tagged: comedy

The Weekend: Agua Amarga, by David Bax

TIFF 2019: Jojo Rabbit, by David Bax

TIFF 2019: Knives Out, by David Bax

TIFF 2019: The Personal History of David Copperfield, by David Bax

Monday Movie: Full Moon High, by David Bax

Brittany Runs a Marathon: Unfinished, by David Bax

Good Boys: Wasted Youth, by David Bax

The Art of Racing in the Rain: A Dog’s End of Life Plan, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: Do the Right Thing, by David Bax

I Do Movies Badly: Naked

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