Category: Theatrical Review

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October 3, 2023

The Royal Hotel: You Can Never Leave, by Scott Nye

Kitty Green’s narrative debut – 2019’s The Assistant – was one of the most striking independent films of the past five years, portraying a complex series of systems and personal compromises that maintain toxic and abusive power structures in place....

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October 2, 2023

Strange Way of Life: Queer Grit, by Scott Nye

Pedro Almodóvar’s latest begins with a shot; actually, at 31 minutes, it hasn’t even that much time, the shot must come before the film starts. Jake (Ethan Hawke) is the sheriff tasked with bringing the gunman to justice. It doesn’t...

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September 28, 2023

Saturn Bowling: In the Gutter, by Scott Nye

“Subversive” is a tough word to consider these days. We’re well past the age of certain topics being considered “off limits” for art from a legal perspective, and working at a small enough budget level, you’ll find just about every...

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September 27, 2023

The Creator: A Spectacular Void, by Scott Nye

Big-budget science fiction is filled with gearheads bereft of emotional urgency. They serve well a modern audience uninterested in storytelling, constantly posting gray-toned CGI comps several degrees removed from an acceptable finished product, claiming them to be among the greatest...

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September 21, 2023

The Origin of Evil: Bringing Down the House, by Scott Nye

Fans of the French TV show Dix pour cent (retitled and available on Netflix as Call My Agent!) have been accustomed to seeing one of that show’s breakout stars, Laure Calamy, ascend the ranks of the supporting actor tree in...

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August 24, 2023

Bottoms: Gut Punch, by Scott Nye

Emma Seligman’s 2020 debut feature Shiva Baby was the biggest breath of fresh air in American independent filmmaking since the sun set on mumblecore. Culturally relevant, funny in a really original way, personal without being self-involved, and really sharply-structured, it’s...

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August 3, 2023

Passages: The Bed Is There For You and Me, by Scott Nye

Desire is never ending, never fulfilled, and makes for a wonderful subject for fiction. Take Tomas (Franz Rogowski), a successful filmmaker living in Paris. He’s married to Martin (Ben Whishaw), a calm, patient, understanding man who has his own thriving,...

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July 12, 2023

Afire: Hot Summer Nights, by Scott Nye

Even at the start, the vacation is not going well – Leon (Thomas Schubert) and Felix (Langston Uibel) are meant to spend a week or so at the latter’s family house near the ocean, when their car breaks down. Then,...

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July 6, 2023

The Passengers of the Night: Ride Along, by Scott Nye

The Passengers of the Night exists pointedly where movies must reflexively, somewhere between real life and a dream. It begins on the night of the 1981 presidential election, electing France’s first Socialist president, but Elisabeth (Charlotte Gainsbourg) has more immediate...

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July 5, 2023

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One: Cruising Altitude, by Scott Nye

Dead Reckoning Part One is the seventh Mission: Impossible film – just about everyone knows what we’re in for here, and unusually, that’s not a detriment. Despite some minor variation, especially across the first five films star/producer/stuntman Tom Cruise used...

Category: Theatrical Review

The Royal Hotel: You Can Never Leave, by Scott Nye

Strange Way of Life: Queer Grit, by Scott Nye

Saturn Bowling: In the Gutter, by Scott Nye

The Creator: A Spectacular Void, by Scott Nye

The Origin of Evil: Bringing Down the House, by Scott Nye

Bottoms: Gut Punch, by Scott Nye

Passages: The Bed Is There For You and Me, by Scott Nye

Afire: Hot Summer Nights, by Scott Nye

The Passengers of the Night: Ride Along, by Scott Nye

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One: Cruising Altitude, by Scott Nye

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