Category: Theatrical Review

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July 31, 2019

The Nightingale: Cruel to Be Kind, by David Bax

This review originally ran as a part of our Sundance 2019 coverage. It’s clear very early on in Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale that things aren’t likely to go well for Clare (Aisling Franciosi), our protagonist. In a small military outpost in...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

July 27, 2019

Honeyland: The Sweet Life, by David Bax

If Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov’s Honeyland were a horror movie like The Deadly Bees or The Swarm, the constant buzzing would be a menacing, threatening choice of sound design. As it’s not a horror movie but rather a stunning,...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

July 24, 2019

Mike Wallace Is Here: That’s the Way It Appears, by David Bax

Avi Belkin’s Mike Wallace Is Here kicks off with footage of Wallace in true form, calmly and confidently dragging Bill O’Reilly’s feet to the fire and telling him, with no equivocation, that what he does is not journalism. O’Reilly fires...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

July 24, 2019

The Mountain: Guess I’ll Have to Break the News, by David Bax

This review originally ran as a part of our Sundance 2019 coverage. Rick Alverson made his name with his third feature, The Comedy, a transcendently uncomfortable film that imagines the thoroughly depressing emotional life of the type of disaffected smartass that,...

movies / reviews / scott nye / Theatrical Review

July 23, 2019

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: A Dream in the Dream Factory, by Scott Nye

Quentin Tarantino’s four most recent films have all been titled in homage to his heroes of the 1960s and ‘70s. It hasn’t been my favorite tendency he’s indulged, as the works themselves are far more imbued with his considerable creativity...

alexander miller / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

July 18, 2019

Into the Ashes: Southern Comfort, by Alexander Miller

It seems like there is a minor resurgence in contemporary westerns/southern gothic thrillers with movies like Mud, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, Blue Ruin, The Hollow Point and Sweet Virginia. Maybe the first season of True Detective is also playing a...

movies / reviews / scott nye / Theatrical Review

July 18, 2019

A Faithful Man: You Play the Loving Woman, by Scott Nye

Louis Garrel’s new feature – his second as director – will doubtlessly raise comparisons to the work his father Philippe has been churning out for at least the past decade. Like Lover for a Day, In the Shadow of Women,...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

July 18, 2019

David Crosby: Remember My Name: Everybody’s Been Burned, by David Bax

From his large but unflashy house in the Santa Ynez Valley, surrounded by lush rows of grapevines and rolling hills, famed singer/songwriter David Crosby, with his trademark whispers now white strands framing a smile, would appear to be living the...

movies / reviews / scott nye / Theatrical Review

July 17, 2019

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians: Romania First, by Scott Nye

This review originally ran as a part of our AFI Fest 2018 coverage. “I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians” begins as documentary, proceeds as political comedy, climaxes as a live event, and concludes as...

movies / Theatrical Review / tyler smith / tyler's reviews

July 12, 2019

The Lion King: Lost in Translation, by Tyler Smith

In 1998, director Gus Van Sant – fresh off the success of Good Will Hunting – orchestrated a shot-for-shot remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s classic thriller Psycho. While many people decried this little experiment as deeply misguided, I think that it...

Category: Theatrical Review

The Nightingale: Cruel to Be Kind, by David Bax

Honeyland: The Sweet Life, by David Bax

Mike Wallace Is Here: That’s the Way It Appears, by David Bax

The Mountain: Guess I’ll Have to Break the News, by David Bax

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: A Dream in the Dream Factory, by Scott Nye

Into the Ashes: Southern Comfort, by Alexander Miller

A Faithful Man: You Play the Loving Woman, by Scott Nye

David Crosby: Remember My Name: Everybody’s Been Burned, by David Bax

I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians: Romania First, by Scott Nye

The Lion King: Lost in Translation, by Tyler Smith

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