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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...

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

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 22, 2020

Color Out of Space: Curse Broken, by David Bax

There have been multiple film adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft’s 1927 short story “The Colour Out of Space,” from 1965’s Die, Monster, Die! to three separate movies since 2008, including cult director Richard Stanley’s anticipated return to filmmaking after being fired...

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January 16, 2020

Weathering with You: Cloudy but Warm, by David Bax

Imagine you went on a first date and you got along famously. Except, at one point during the evening, your companion made a troubling offhand comment–a dislike for animals, maybe, or a fondness for Ben Shapiro–that you tried to brush...

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January 15, 2020

VHYes: Channel Surfing, by Alexander Miller

When I was about eight or nine years old, I was channel surfing and much to my surprise I saw “comic store Craig” (he earned this nickname because he owned a local comic shop; clever, right?) sitting on a stool...

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January 9, 2020

Like a Boss: Blemish Prone, by David Bax

At the advance screening of Like a Boss, my guest and I were each given a free glass of rosé to sip while enjoying the movie. You could, I suppose, call this bribery but, to be more charitable, you could...

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January 9, 2020

Les Miserables: Jour d’Entrainement, by David Bax

Of the many times Ladj Ly’s Les Misérables is reminiscent of other, better things, the most exciting is the opening sequence, which, with its Steadicam roaming through young bodies in motion soundtracked by droning music, is like a more proletarian...

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December 23, 2019

Just Mercy: Long Term, by David Bax

After a touching prologue in which a law student and intern named Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) nervously makes his first visit to a death row inmate, Destin Daniel Cretton’s Just Mercy quickly jumps ahead to a more seasoned Stevenson,...

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December 19, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Tunes of Glory, by David Bax

Ronald Neame’s Tunes of Glory (out now on Blu-ray from the Criterion Collection) is a movie about soldiers and thus has plenty of the stern, rough-hewn masculinity you might expect from the sub-genre. But, as the title suggests, it also...

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Sundance 2020: The Perfect Candidate, by David Bax

Sundance 2020: The Climb, by David Bax

Sundance 2020: Cuties, by David Bax

Color Out of Space: Curse Broken, by David Bax

Weathering with You: Cloudy but Warm, by David Bax

VHYes: Channel Surfing, by Alexander Miller

Like a Boss: Blemish Prone, by David Bax

Les Miserables: Jour d’Entrainement, by David Bax

Just Mercy: Long Term, by David Bax

Home Video Hovel: Tunes of Glory, by David Bax

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