Category: Theatrical Review

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October 10, 2019

Parasite: Leveling Up, by Scott Nye

Earlier today – at least, the “today” on which I’m writing this – an acquaintance on Twitter jokingly asked if it even counts as a review of Parasite if your headline doesn’t immediately call it out as a masterpiece, as...

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October 10, 2019

Je t’aime moi non plus: Who Is In, Who Is Out, by David Bax

Serge Gainsbourg is known the world over as a great, influential musician and songwriter (as well as a controversial provocateur). But, in addition to quite a bit of acting work, he also slipped into the director’s chair more than a...

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October 8, 2019

Gemini Man: Second Chance, by Scott Nye

Ang Lee’s Gemini Man begins in familiarly thrilling territory – a man is perched on a hillside, preparing his sniper rifle to kill a stranger on a passing train. He makes his shot, of course, because he is The Best....

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October 8, 2019

Mister America: Great Job, by David Bax

Eric Notarnicola’s Mister America is the theatrical culmination (for now) of project called On Cinema, which started as a podcast in 2011 and has morphed and expanded to include a web series, multiple television series and a number of live...

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October 2, 2019

Pain & Glory: Tied Up, by David Bax

This review originally ran as a part of our TIFF 2019 coverage. In many ways, Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain & Glory feels like a departure. It’s not that the hothouse melodramas that make up most of his output have resisted personal...

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September 26, 2019

The Tiger of Eschnapur & The Indian Tomb: Fritz Lang’s India (Sort Of), by David Bax

Fritz Lang’s Indian epic, the two-part The Tiger of Eschnapur and The Indian Tomb, is not generally mentioned among the auteur’s great works. And, truth be told, it probably shouldn’t be. Despite its troubling shortcomings, though, it bears some undeniably...

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September 25, 2019

Abominable: Believe in Magic, by David Bax

Jill Culton (2006’s Open Season) establishes her skills as both writer and director early on in Abominable. In a lively and largely wordless sequence detailing how she spends an average day of her summer vacation, we learn everything we need...

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September 25, 2019

The Death of Dick Long: Never Made It as a Wise Man, by David Bax

This review originally ran as a part of our Sundance 2019 coverage. Even if you’re not familiar with the term “butt rock,” you’re definitely familiar with some of the genre’s luminaries and, in any case, you can probably conjure up...

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September 25, 2019

First Love: Slap Happy, by David Bax

This review originally ran as a part of our TIFF 2019 coverage. Takashi Miike’s world is one of commonplace sociopathy. In his newest film, First Love, as in his others, the criminals aren’t just criminals. They’re ice cold sadists and...

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September 19, 2019

Where’s My Roy Cohn?: Devil in the Details, by David Bax

“He was like a caged animal,” says one of the many talking heads interviewed in Matt Tyrnauer’s Where’s My Roy Cohn?. And with this, right at the beginning of the film, the sick mythologizing of Cohn begins. Tyrnauer seems, rightly,...

Category: Theatrical Review

Parasite: Leveling Up, by Scott Nye

Je t’aime moi non plus: Who Is In, Who Is Out, by David Bax

Gemini Man: Second Chance, by Scott Nye

Mister America: Great Job, by David Bax

Pain & Glory: Tied Up, by David Bax

The Tiger of Eschnapur & The Indian Tomb: Fritz Lang’s India (Sort Of), by David Bax

Abominable: Believe in Magic, by David Bax

The Death of Dick Long: Never Made It as a Wise Man, by David Bax

First Love: Slap Happy, by David Bax

Where’s My Roy Cohn?: Devil in the Details, by David Bax

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