Category: 2020

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January 30, 2020

Sundance 2020: Minari, by David Bax

In 1980, Ronald Reagan campaigned heavily to America’s farmers, who were faltering after a decade of rising gas and oil prices and Cold War embargoes, promising to turn things around for them. But by 1985, the first year of Reagan’s...

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January 29, 2020

Sundance 2020: Whirlybird, by David Bax

Of all the fascinating ground Matt Yoka’s Whirlybird covers, it is perhaps most crucially a transgender story. Even when it’s not directly about that, the fact of it is there every time one of the interviewees refers to the movie’s...

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January 29, 2020

Sundance 2020: Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia, by David Bax

If it makes you feel safer to be able to assign a movie to a genre then you can call Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia, the first feature length movie from the Miami collective known as the Borscht Corporation, a...

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January 27, 2020

Sundance 2020: The Nest, by David Bax

If Sean Durkin’s The Nest were simplistic enough for me to describe it as being “about” something, you could definitely say it’s about the importance of not lying to your spouse. The tension in the central marriage, though present from...

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January 27, 2020

Sundance 2020: The Glorias, by David Bax

Right from the opening sequence, in which Gloria Steinem (Julianne Moore) rides a bus in black and white as the world outside becomes colorized bit by bit, Pleasantville-style, it’s apparent that Julie Taymor’s The Glorias is going to be very...

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January 27, 2020

Sundance 2020: Dick Johnson Is Dead, by David Bax

We always hope for the best possible outcome for our loved ones but we also all know what that final outcome is going to be. Every person you’ve ever loved, no matter how much you love them, is going to...

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January 26, 2020

Sundance 2020: Kajillionaire, by David Bax

One the best of the many great shots in Miranda July’s Kajillionaire tracks along the interior of an airplane as our protagonists, a family of low grade grifters (Evan Rachel Wood, Debra Winger, Richard Jenkins), having waited for everyone else...

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January 26, 2020

Sundance 2020: Worth, by David Bax

Oddly, the most baldly manipulative parts of Sara Colangelo’s Worth are among the parts that work the best. From the Zero Dark Thirty-style opening of audio over a black screen to the many, brief scenes in which actors like Gayle...

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January 26, 2020

Sundance 2020: Shirley, by David Bax

It’s hard to imagine that any of those “men’s rights” doofuses would ever find themselves watching Shirley, Josephine Decker’s curdling psychodrama that fictionalizes the period during which Shirley Jackson (Elisabeth Moss) wrote her 1951 novel Hangsaman. But it would be...

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January 25, 2020

Sundance 2020: The Night House, by David Bax

Sometimes I forget what my dad’s voice sounded like. I can always picture him doing the things he loved, like coaching my little league baseball team, or doing the things I loved, like rolling his eyes when we disagreed about...

Category: 2020

Sundance 2020: Minari, by David Bax

Sundance 2020: Whirlybird, by David Bax

Sundance 2020: Omniboat: A Fast Boat Fantasia, by David Bax

Sundance 2020: The Nest, by David Bax

Sundance 2020: The Glorias, by David Bax

Sundance 2020: Dick Johnson Is Dead, by David Bax

Sundance 2020: Kajillionaire, by David Bax

Sundance 2020: Worth, by David Bax

Sundance 2020: Shirley, by David Bax

Sundance 2020: The Night House, by David Bax

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