Tagged: chloe sevigny

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

November 25, 2019

Queen & Slim: You Only Die Once, by David Bax

One of the most stirring things about Melina Matsoukas’ powerful feature directing debut Queen & Slim is how little suspension of disbelief its wild story requires. Not that many years ago, a lot of white viewers might have questioned the...

movies / reviews / scott nye / Theatrical Review

June 12, 2019

The Dead Don’t Die: Nothing Settled, Nothing Remains, by Scott Nye

The Dead Don’t Die is undoubtedly the stupidest film writer/director Jim Jarmusch has made. It is half-formed, inconclusive, often free from motivation, repetitive without finding that zen space he’s best known for, and is relentlessly nihilistic about basically everyone and...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

October 23, 2018

Criterion Prediction #162: Demonlover, by Alexander Miller

Title: Demonlover Year: 2002 Director: Olivier Assayas Cast: Chloë Sevigny, Connie Nielsen, Charles Berling, Gina Gershon Synopsis: Two rival corporations compete to distribute 3D manga pornography. While tensions mount, they’re introduced to American internet company Demonlover – which might be...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

September 13, 2018

Lizzie: Love You to Pieces, by David Bax

We all know what Lizzie Borden is famous for. And even if we didn’t, Craig William Macneill opens his new film, Lizzie—an account of the events preceding, including and following her crimes—with shots of their aftermath, hatchet-disfigured corpses in pools...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

April 5, 2018

Lean on Pete: The Searchers, by David Bax

It’s almost an admission of our collective failure to remember what it was like to be children that we find such relevance and currency in stories of kids and their pets. Our own, too little examined maturation makes boys and...

Tagged: chloe sevigny

Queen & Slim: You Only Die Once, by David Bax

The Dead Don’t Die: Nothing Settled, Nothing Remains, by Scott Nye

Criterion Prediction #162: Demonlover, by Alexander Miller

Lizzie: Love You to Pieces, by David Bax

Lean on Pete: The Searchers, by David Bax

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