Category: Theatrical Review

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 17, 2019

The Edge of Democracy: Compromise and Corruption, by David Bax

This review originally ran as part of our Sundance 2019 coverage. Petra Costa’s criminally underseen 2012 documentary Elena is a deeply personal work about family, dreams and loss. So her new film, The Edge of Democracy, about the short lived rule of Brazil’s...

alexander miller / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 15, 2019

Hampstead: Jack Squat, by Alexander Miller

The major draw of Hampstead is its stars, Diane Keaton and Brendon Gleeson. The rest of the cast is added incentive, seeing as it’s a rounded collective of British actors. There’s Lesley Manville, James Norton, Phil Davis and none other...

dayne linford / featured / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 13, 2019

Back to the Fatherland: Never Again, by Dayne Linford

It’s so straightforward, it’s disarming. A group of people sit around a table somewhere in Israel, some Jewish Israelis, others Germans or Austrians, all too young to remember the history they’re trying to reckon with and yet forced to reckon...

featured / movies / reviews / scott nye / Theatrical Review

June 12, 2019

The Dead Don’t Die: Nothing Settled, Nothing Remains, by Scott Nye

The Dead Don’t Die is undoubtedly the stupidest film writer/director Jim Jarmusch has made. It is half-formed, inconclusive, often free from motivation, repetitive without finding that zen space he’s best known for, and is relentlessly nihilistic about basically everyone and...

david bax / featured / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 12, 2019

Deep Murder: Gosford Pork, by David Bax

This review originally ran as part of our LA Film Fest 2018 coverage. Nick Corirossi’s astounding Deep Murder is such a thoroughly committed work of parody that its commitment is, in some ways, actually part of the joke. Take, for instance, the...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 12, 2019

Wild Rose: I Fall to Pieces, by David Bax

If you didn’t know that Nashville’s hockey team was called the Predators and you didn’t know that, a couple of years ago, they renamed a stretch of 5th Avenue to celebrate the team’s appearance in the Stanley Cup final, you...

movies / reviews / sarah brinks / Theatrical Review

June 6, 2019

Papi Chulo: Cool and Hot in L.A., by Sarah Brinks

According to Google translate, Papi Chulo means “Pimp daddy” in Spanish. However, Urban Dictionary would lead me to believe is means something closer to, “cool or hot daddy.” My obvious lack of fluency in Spanish puts me in good company...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

June 6, 2019

Late Night: Too Little, by David Bax

When Mindy Kaling’s Molly Patel first appears onscreen in Nisha Ganatra’s Late Night, all bright-eyed and grinning, basic movie literacy tells us to be prepared for the plot to put her through the wringer. But Kaling’s screenplay will soon suggest...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

May 31, 2019

Too Late to Die Young: Strange You Never Knew, by David Bax

According to most accounts, Dominga Sotomayor’s Too Late to Die Young takes place in 1990. This is borne out by the use of The Bangles’ “Eternal Flame” and a poster of Sinead O’Connor on the protagonist’s wall (though Mazzy Star’s...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

May 30, 2019

The Fall of the American Empire: Don’t Give Me That Do-Goody-Good Bullshit, by David Bax

On its surface, Denys Arcand’s The Fall of the American Empire has the politics of the present day on its mind, with references to ongoing issues like the resurgent anti-immigrant sentiment that is currently tearing most of the Western world...

Category: Theatrical Review

The Edge of Democracy: Compromise and Corruption, by David Bax

Hampstead: Jack Squat, by Alexander Miller

Back to the Fatherland: Never Again, by Dayne Linford

The Dead Don’t Die: Nothing Settled, Nothing Remains, by Scott Nye

Deep Murder: Gosford Pork, by David Bax

Wild Rose: I Fall to Pieces, by David Bax

Papi Chulo: Cool and Hot in L.A., by Sarah Brinks

Late Night: Too Little, by David Bax

Too Late to Die Young: Strange You Never Knew, by David Bax

The Fall of the American Empire: Don’t Give Me That Do-Goody-Good Bullshit, by David Bax

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