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February 26, 2020

The Invisible Man: What You See and What You Get, by Tyler Smith

One of the reasons that the horror genre endures is its adaptability. Artistic style may change, but the things that scare us don’t. No matter where or when a person may live, at his core, he’s still frightened by the...

2020 / david bax / movies / reviews / sundance / sundance 2020 / Theatrical Review

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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April 10, 2019

Her Smell: Young and Wild and Free, by David Bax

This review originally ran as part of our TIFF 2018 coverage. It wouldn’t come as a surprise if Her Smell, Alex Ross Perry’s movie about the fall and rise of a fictional grunge/punk rock star, eventually comes to be embraced...

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November 10, 2018

AFI Fest 2018: Her Smell, by David Bax

It wouldn’t come as a surprise if Her Smell, Alex Ross Perry’s movie about the fall and rise of a fictional grunge/punk rock star, eventually comes to be embraced by horror fans. It’s not that it’s scary or supernatural or...

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October 9, 2018

TIFF 2018: Her Smell, by David Bax

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May 10, 2018

The Seagull: Washed Up, by Jeremy Elder

I had high hopes to see what Michael Mayer, an established and respected Broadway director, would be able to bring to a film adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull. Surely, a former theater student at NYU would be able to...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

October 26, 2017

The Square: Help!, by David Bax

In its purest form, there’s a basic and easily understood social contract when it comes to helping people. If you’re in public and you’re in trouble, you yell, “Help!” If someone is able, they come to your assistance. But, of...

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May 4, 2017

Chuck: Gonna Fly Now, by Sarah Brinks

You know subject of the film Chuck, Chuck Wepner, even if you have never heard of him. He’s the real-life inspiration for Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky. Wepner went fifteen rounds with Muhammad Ali in 1975 and is a local legend in...