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

January 25, 2020

Sundance 2020: The Night House, by David Bax

Sometimes I forget what my dad’s voice sounded like. I can always picture him doing the things he loved, like coaching my little league baseball team, or doing the things I loved, like rolling his eyes when we disagreed about...

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

January 25, 2020

Sundance 2020: Never Rarely Sometimes Always, by David Bax

There is much that is astounding about Eliza Hittman’s searing Never Rarely Sometimes Always but nothing about it surprises me as much as the realization that its two leads, Sidney Flanigan and Talia Ryder, are both making their feature film...

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January 24, 2020

Sundance 2020: Zola, by David Bax

Even if you didn’t read the now famous Twitter thread from 2015 on which Janicza Bravo’s Zola is based, both the movie and the thread start the same way, with Zola (Taylour Paige) asking, in reference to her friend (called...

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January 24, 2020

Sundance 2020: Miss Americana, by David Bax

If you’re coming to Lana Wilson’s Taylor Swift: Miss Americana looking for a frothy, fan-service documentary, well… Actually, to some extent, you’ll get it. The movie has deeper and more personal concerns but, among all that, there’s fun, cute stuff...

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

January 24, 2020

Sundance 2020: The Perfect Candidate, by David Bax

The Perfect Candidate, the new film from Wadjda director Haifa Al-Mansour, is likely to be impactful among the bourgeois, Western audiences like the one I saw it with in Park City’s Egyptian Theatre. The thing it does best is embedding...

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January 24, 2020

Sundance 2020: The Climb, by David Bax

Movies where the structure is the hook tend to make me nervous. Your mileage may vary, of course; the popularity of Christopher Nolan movies like Memento and Inception escapes me but I found Dunkirk to be elegant and stirring. Michael...

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

January 24, 2020

Sundance 2020: Cuties, by David Bax

When we speak in platitudes about the hardships and the bullying faced by tween-aged kids in school, we might speak about encouraging self-confidence or goal achievement. But, in Maïmouna Doucouré’s sharply observed Cuties, about an eleven-year-old girl steering full bore...

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January 12, 2020

Episode 669: Sundance Preview 2020

In this episode, Tyler and David discuss the films of this year’s Sundance Film Festival as well as apparent awards frontrunner 1917.

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November 24, 2019

Episode 662: AFI Fest 2019 Wrap-Up

In this episode, Tyler and David are joined by Battleship Pretension editor-at-large Scott Nye to discuss the films of this year’s AFI Fest.

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November 24, 2019

AFI Fest 2019: Hala, by David Bax

Hala (Geraldine Viswanathan) loves poetry. She reads it, writes it and recites it to her classmates and her whole world changes when she discovers that her crush, a fellow skateboarder named Jesse (Jack Kilmer), shares her passion. But Hala, the...

Tagged: film festival

Sundance 2020: The Night House, by David Bax

Sundance 2020: Never Rarely Sometimes Always, by David Bax

Sundance 2020: Zola, by David Bax

Sundance 2020: Miss Americana, by David Bax

Sundance 2020: The Perfect Candidate, by David Bax

Sundance 2020: The Climb, by David Bax

Sundance 2020: Cuties, by David Bax

Episode 669: Sundance Preview 2020

Episode 662: AFI Fest 2019 Wrap-Up

AFI Fest 2019: Hala, by David Bax

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