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April 4, 2019

Shazam!: Power Fantasy, by Tyler Smith

David F. Sandberg’s Shazam! is an enjoyable experience. It harkens back to a simpler time in superhero movies, when goofy humor and campy fun could balance out the darker elements inherent in the genre. The tone of the film is...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

April 3, 2019

Peterloo: I Feel Like I Win When I Lose, by David Bax

Mike Leigh made his name with contemporary, ground level social dramas like Naked and Secrets & Lies but he’s also peppered the occasional lush period piece, like Topsy-Turvy or Vera Drake, into his career. Now, for the first time, he’s...

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April 3, 2019

Suburban Birds: Tracing Our Way Back, by Scott Nye

Suburban Birds, one of a handful of impressive debut films to make their way from China to the United States over the past few years, is like its predecessors (I’m thinking especially of Kaili Blues and An Elephant Sitting Still)...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

March 28, 2019

Dumbo: Big Top Letdown, by David Bax

Tim Burton’s Dumbo is a failure, to be sure, but not because of the poor, stiff child acting around which so much of it revolves. Even if that were the case, it would be mean-spirited to say so. No, the...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

March 27, 2019

Diane: Works of Mercy, by David Bax

When you think of winter light, the things that come to mind—after the Bergman film, that is—probably involve overcast days or sunbeams bouncing off of snowbanks. But, really, we who are fortunate enough spend most of the winter indoors. Those...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

March 27, 2019

The Brink: What Would You Say If I Should Let You Speak?, by David Bax

For a guy who openly claims that the president wouldn’t have been elected without him, Steve Bannon doesn’t come across as some kind of mastermind in Alison Klayman’s The Brink. Yet he does seem effortlessly able to draw like-minded people...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

March 26, 2019

Hurley: Baby, You’re Much Too Fast, by David Bax

According to Derek Dodge’s new documentary on the guy, Hurley Haywood is like the Wayne Gretzky of the endurance racing motorsport. But I’d never heard of the guy. Then again, I’d never heard of any of his contemporaries either. Come...

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

March 22, 2019

Us: Challenged to a Dual, by Tyler Smith

I would love to be able to say that Jordan Peele’s Us is a worthy follow-up to his fantastic directorial debut Get Out, but I’m afraid I just can’t. After a genuinely creepy first half, the film very quickly devolves...

Craig Schroeder / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

March 21, 2019

Ramen Shop: For the Hungry Boy, by Craig Schroeder

Just as movies are empathy machines, as Roger Ebert famously quipped, food also allows people to relate to experiences wildly different from their own. Some of cinema’s greatest moments are those that exploit the inextricable link between food and the...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

March 20, 2019

Sunset: Millinery Surplus, by David Bax

If, at any point in the years since 2015’s Son of Saul, you’ve found yourself thinking, “I wonder if László Nemes still likes close-ups,” then I can confirm, having seen his newest film, Sunset, that he does. He also maintains an...

Category: Theatrical Review

Shazam!: Power Fantasy, by Tyler Smith

Peterloo: I Feel Like I Win When I Lose, by David Bax

Suburban Birds: Tracing Our Way Back, by Scott Nye

Dumbo: Big Top Letdown, by David Bax

Diane: Works of Mercy, by David Bax

The Brink: What Would You Say If I Should Let You Speak?, by David Bax

Hurley: Baby, You’re Much Too Fast, by David Bax

Us: Challenged to a Dual, by Tyler Smith

Ramen Shop: For the Hungry Boy, by Craig Schroeder

Sunset: Millinery Surplus, by David Bax

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