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April 18, 2019

Home Video Hovel: Kalifornia, by Tyler Smith

Is there anything worse than a stupid film that thinks it’s smart or, even worse, insightful? It can be a lethal combination for any work of art, but there’s something specific about film, which combines so many different stylistic elements,...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

April 17, 2019

El Desencanto: Death of the Family, by David Bax

El Desencanto is something of a cult favorite in Spain but has not seen a release in the United States until this year. Its reputation is not unlike that of Grey Gardens, which came out the year before El Desencanto,...

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April 16, 2019

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April 11, 2019

Little: A Minor Achievement, by David Bax

Tina Gordon wrote the screenplay for this year’s What Men Want, a gender- and race-swapped version of Nancy Meyers’ What Women Want. Now Gordon has written and directed Little, a gender-, race- and age-swapped version of Penny Marshall’s Big. This time around, there is...

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April 11, 2019

The Man Who Killed Don Quixote: Welcome to Spain, by David Bax

Though he started off his directing career with PG-rated, ostensibly kid-friendly movies like Monty Python and the Holy Grail and Time Bandits, mean-spiritedness has always defined Terry Gilliam’s work. His latest, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, finally making its way to theaters...

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April 10, 2019

A Dark Place: The Voices Low, by David Bax

A Dark Place may be a sleep-inducing title but even its original name, Steel Country, is a sidestep from what it really wants to say. The opening montage of the small, rural Pennsylvanian town where it’s set is dotted with...

alexander miller / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

April 10, 2019

Girls of the Sun: Good Daughters, by Alexander Miller

There’s a great scene in Eva Husson’s Girls of the Sun that appears in the trailer. One of the titular soldiers is standing over the body of a fallen enemy. She pulls a ringing phone out of his pocket. The...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

April 10, 2019

Dogman: Has His Day, by David Bax

This review originally ran a part of our TIFF 2018 coverage. Dogman starts out bearing some resemblance to a previous film from director Matteo Garrone, 2012’s Reality. That film’s lead was a fishmonger, well liked in his neighborhood; this time around, it’s...

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April 10, 2019

Her Smell: Young and Wild and Free, by David Bax

This review originally ran a part of our TIFF 2018 coverage. It wouldn’t come as a surprise if Her Smell, Alex Ross Perry’s movie about the fall and rise of a fictional grunge/punk rock star, eventually comes to be embraced...