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2013 / matt warren

Matt’s Top Ten of 2013

2013 found the thing we call “Film” at a crossroads. As production technology advanced and distribution platforms sprung up like dandelions, outsider auteurs were suddenly empowered to share their vision to an unprecedented degree. At the same time, major studios...

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matt warren / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

AWOL, by Matt Warren

I’m pretty much in the tank for any movie that begins with a warning that the visuals in the film may make me vomit and/or obliterate my higher neurological functions. Such disclaimers were placed in front of both Enter the...

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matt warren / movies / reviews / sundance

Sundance 2014 Part Three, by Matt Warren

Well, another Sundance has been entered into the record books—a gold-leafed journal bound in human skin and dusted with the rich spice fragrance of a 16th-century tobacco freighter—and filed away in Robert Redford’s private underground library on a shelf between...

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matt warren / movies / reviews / sundance

Sundance 2014 Part Two, by Matt Warren

Welcome back to the thrilling, sexually dynamic adventures of a non-professional film blogger embedded deep within the Seattle’s Best Coffee cabanas and dine-in Pizza Huts of Park City’s de-militarized “Gingham Zone.” As I write this, the awards for the 2014...

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2014 / matt warren / sundance

Sundance 2014 Part One, by Matt Warren

Except for one interminable, soul-murdering six-year gap in the mid-‘aughts, I’ve pretty much been to every Sundance Film Festival since 1997. That’s like fifteen or so total SFFs—spanning high school to adulthood. Which is why it’s somewhat surprising that this...

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matt warren / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

Scarcely Present, by Matt Warren

While at the National Archives this week doing my customary 18-36 hours of research per film review, I discovered some fascinating—if not downright astonishing—information about the actor Harry Dean Stanton. Did you know, for example, that Harry Dean Stanton once...

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matt warren / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

Picture Book Show, by Matt Warren

There are two ways to perceive Lee Daniels’ ridiculous, not unentertaining new film The Butler. One: as Oscar-bait gone hilariously awry—an embarrassing, self-serious stab at profundity sunk by its own stupidity and unintentional camp. Or Two: as a well-intentioned political fantasy for...

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