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December 16, 2024

The Brutalist: Resilient Uprising, by Scott Nye

The Brutalist arrives with a head full of steam and a heart full of pain. It opens with an interrogation and ends with a mystery. It is caught – or it captures – the point of history, of the human...

alexander miller / criterion predictions / movies

July 25, 2023

Criterion Prediction #277: Stars at Noon, by Alexander Miller

Title: Stars at Noon Year: 2022 Director: Claire Denis Cast: Margaret Qualley, Joe Alwyn, Benny Safdie, Danny Ramirez Synopsis: An unlikely romance between a drifting American journalist (Qualley) and an elusive English businessman (Alwyn) strikes up amid rising political tensions...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

October 12, 2022

Stars at Noon: The Last Thing She Wanted, by David Bax

It would be incorrect to describe Claire Denis‘ Stars at Noon as a “Covid movie” or a “pandemic movie.” Those elements are not what the film is about. At the same time, though, they are not mere background noise or...

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

January 24, 2020

Sundance 2020: Miss Americana, by David Bax

If you’re coming to Lana Wilson’s Taylor Swift: Miss Americana looking for a frothy, fan-service documentary, well… Actually, to some extent, you’ll get it. The movie has deeper and more personal concerns but, among all that, there’s fun, cute stuff...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

October 31, 2019

Harriet: Stalled on the Tracks, by David Bax

It’s baffling to realize that Harriet Tubman—someone who easily makes the shortlist of best and most important Americans of all time—has never gotten the biopic movie treatment before (Cicely Tyson played her on television for a 1978 miniseries). So Kasi...

Tagged: joe alwyn

The Brutalist: Resilient Uprising, by Scott Nye

Criterion Prediction #277: Stars at Noon, by Alexander Miller

Stars at Noon: The Last Thing She Wanted, by David Bax

Sundance 2020: Miss Americana, by David Bax

Harriet: Stalled on the Tracks, by David Bax

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