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2023 / david bax / movies / reviews / sundance / sundance 2023 / Theatrical Review

January 30, 2023

Sundance 2023: L’immensita, by David Bax

As a genre, the coming of age movie is an oft-used one for a reason. It’s endlessly malleable in that every sort of person can come of any age at any time. Emanuele Crialese‘s L’immensità goes, in many ways, the...

alexander miller / movies / trailer project / video

March 16, 2022

The Trailer Project with Alexander Miller #39: Olivier Assayas’ Wasp Network (2019)

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

January 6, 2022

The 355: Tomorrow Never Ends, by David Bax

Generally, unless it’s from a director with whose work I already have a negative association, I try to enter into every movie with hope and optimism. So, in the opening scene of Simon Kinberg’s The 355, when the movie introduces...

david bax / movies / reviews / Theatrical Review

November 29, 2018

Everybody Knows: No Guiding Light, by David Bax

To a lot of people, the term “melodrama” carries a bad stench. That’s too bad because not only are so many examples of melodrama legitimate classics, it’s an adaptable format that can still surprise and hit us hard. For example,...