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Film Review: The Smashing Machine
Though it often subverts your expectations of a sports film, The Smashing Machine devolves into a textbook sports picture as it nears its conclusion. … read more
Film Review: Eddington
Eddington is the best portrait of everything wrong with modern-day American politics. … read more
Arts | Film | Film Reviews
A Journalist’s Nightmare: Opus Is a Punchy but Predictable Cult...
It’s Midsommar (murderous cult in the countryside) meets Ingrid Goes West (the dark side of celebrity worship) meets Get Out (I wanted to scream “Get out!” the whole time). … read more
André is an Idiot: His Final Marketing Campaign is Genius
In André is an Idiot, we learn through Tony Benna’s even-keeled lens that André Ricciardi and his enigmatic persona are as sincere as they come. … read more
Film Review: Civil War
Civil War is intentionally unemotional, apolitical and apathetic toward the American identity. … read more
Sundance Film Review: I Saw The TV Glow
I Saw the TV Glow is funnier and warmer than Scheonbrun’s debut We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, but it’s also more genuinely frightening and disturbing. … read more
Film Review: Aftersun
Behind the soft cinematography and melancholic pace of Aftersun—director Charlotte Wells’ feature debut—is a heart wrenching tale of a father-daughter vacation. … read more
Film Review: Pearl
Pearl hones the idea that the human mind is far more horrifying than anything supernatural, proving Ti West to be one of the more brilliant working directors. … read more
Film Review: The Lighthouse
The Lighthouse pivots further away from the genre of horror and dives deep into the worlds of psychological thrillers, high noir and survival drama. … read more
Film Review: The Farewell
The Farewell is embedded in a melancholic push-pull of mourning, nostalgia and outsiderness, but of course, it’s readily and incisively funny, too. … read more
Film Review: Midsommar
Midsommar, in comparison to Ari Aster’s last project, Hereditary, takes on a completely different tone while still following through with extreme visuals. … read more
Film Review: Eighth Grade
Like eighth grade, Bo Burnham’s feature-film debut will have you wincing in secondhand (and firsthand) embarrassment and laughing through heart-pangs. … read more
