Category: Theatrical Review

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November 30, 2023

La Syndicaliste: Terror at Home, by Scott Nye

Right from the start, La Syndicaliste sets itself apart from the standard whistleblower arc – in a police dispatch call, a housecleaner reports the woman she works for has been tied to a chair, her stomach carved, and she’s been...

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November 29, 2023

Lady Ballers: Airball, by Tyler Smith

As a critic, I don’t begrudge a movie having a point of view. I may disagree with it – indeed, I might even condemn it – but I believe that every film deserves its day in court. This should not...

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November 27, 2023

Silent Night: Emotional Blanks, by Scott Nye

There are few things more unpleasant than a movie with immense promise coming up as empty as John Woo’s Silent Night does. Woo, one of the masters of action cinema, makes his return to American filmmaking for the first time...

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November 22, 2023

Fallen Leaves: Harmony of Contrasts, by Scott Nye

Despite saying at the time of its release that The Other Side of Hope would be his final feature, 66-year-old Finnish filmmaker Aki Kaurismaki is back with a new film on old themes – middle-aged people on the margins of...

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November 14, 2023

Saltburn: Now Let’s Have Some Fun, by Scott Nye

I sometimes find it necessary to clarify with people – and, honestly, sometimes with myself – that I don’t engage in the loose avocation of film criticism to employ what might be termed “better judgment.” I don’t read various films...

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November 9, 2023

Dream Scenario: Collective Nonconscious, by Scott Nye

Nicolas Cage has a problem. I am not referring, here, to Paul Matthews, the character he plays in the new film Dream Scenario, though we’ll get to him in short order. I mean the uber-prolific movie star whose career has...

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November 2, 2023

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt: Bittersweet Memory, by Scott Nye

Even the title conjures a tactile sensation, somewhere between repellent and enticing. The feature debut of poet/photographer/filmmaker Raven Jackson, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is at once elliptical and circular, weaving in and out of moments in at least...

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October 25, 2023

The Holdovers: Held Back, by Scott Nye

The Holdovers calls its shot immediately, with a string of 1970s-style logos for companies that did not exist then (including production company Miramax and distributor Focus Features). Its opening credits, superimposed on various shots establishing the film’s setting – a...

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October 20, 2023

The Delinquents: Stealing Time, by Scott Nye

Morán (Daniel Elías) has a plan. He’s worked at the bank for some number of years, the day-to-day routine has become numbing, but there’s a simple, if not necessarily easy, way out – steal enough money to retire on, secretly...

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October 5, 2023

Foe: This Is How I Leave You, by Scott Nye

Garth Davis’s Foe opens and closes with a potentially-deadly amount of exposition – it’s the future, climate change has made the world unstable, we can live in space; oh, and there are lifelike robots capable of taking the place of...

Category: Theatrical Review

La Syndicaliste: Terror at Home, by Scott Nye

Lady Ballers: Airball, by Tyler Smith

Silent Night: Emotional Blanks, by Scott Nye

Fallen Leaves: Harmony of Contrasts, by Scott Nye

Saltburn: Now Let’s Have Some Fun, by Scott Nye

Dream Scenario: Collective Nonconscious, by Scott Nye

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt: Bittersweet Memory, by Scott Nye

The Holdovers: Held Back, by Scott Nye

The Delinquents: Stealing Time, by Scott Nye

Foe: This Is How I Leave You, by Scott Nye

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