REVIEW ARCHIVE
- Best of Film 2022
2022’s long gone, my tenure as a critic may have faded, but you’d be all the way wrong if you thought I wasn’t going to… Read more: Best of Film 2022 - Best of Film: 2020 & 2021
As we all well know, the Big C-Vid fudged up the film ecosystem, cutting the distribution and volume of new releases into funkily-shaped chunks. The… Read more: Best of Film: 2020 & 2021 - Much depth. Very abrasive. Wow. — ‘The Power of the Dog’ Review
Yeesh, 2021 was a bit of a soft year in its awards/prestige season. A good chunk of hyped-up contenders (Mass, Passing, The Lost Daughter, The… Read more: Much depth. Very abrasive. Wow. — ‘The Power of the Dog’ Review
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2021 musical cap – ‘Annette’ and ‘tick, tick… BOOM!,’ reviewed
If 2021 wasn’t the year for musicals, I don’t know what it was. Here’s the closing chapter to the many dang good entries that made up that list.
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Inter-species introspections – ‘Titane’ and ‘Lamb,’ reviewed
I just had to give myself time to think back on this enigmatic pair of horror films, Titane and Lamb, before being sure of what I was going to write on them. Several months later, I’m still only kind of sold on my own thoughts about them.
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Stratospheric scummery – ‘Red Rocket’ Review
There’s a decrepit air to Red Rocket that aches atmosphere from every corner of its small time rural setting. Industrial smoke stacks inescapably loom over the baby blue daytime and deep purple evening skies, guzzling gas as the film’s humble townsfolk chug on cigarettes and scrounge together cash to throw at their monthly rent by […]
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Slice of life, with an aftertaste – ‘Licorice Pizza’ Review
I feel I’ve always had to admire Paul Thomas Anderson from afar. Boogie Nights, Phantom Thread, The Master—the man does what he wants, his films usually driven with the wryest tinges of zero-ducks irony and humor I can’t help but respect. At the same time and for the same reasons, I can never quite connect […]
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We’re gonna ducking die (duh!) – ‘Don’t Look Up’ Review
New year, same problems. Mo’ problems, even. And they just keep piling up. Adam McKay very well may have been the funniest man on Earth for a spot of years, but there’s nothing humorous about the resigned doomsday narrative of his latest political satire, Don’t Look Up. That’s about par for the course. Yet, there’s […]
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