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Review

Birth (2004)

Birth presents us a patently silly premise with clear eyes:

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Review

They Die By Dawn (2013)

Jeymes Samuel had a roundabout path to making films.

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Review

Sexy Beast (2000)

Sexy Beast pulls the artful trick of telling the viewer it’s about one thing and then abruptly, hilariously, poetically becoming something different.

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Review

Nyad (2023)

Every year we get one or two or more biopics, increasingly relegated to streaming, that are shamelessly engineered and promoted to get acting Oscar nominations.

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Review

Dream Scenario (2023)

Dream Scenario became one of the “weird movie” sensations of 2023, and it’s not really hard to see why.

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The Holdovers (2023)

It would be reductive to say that The Holdovers works because Alexander Payne once again cast Paul Giamatti, the perfect vessel of his writing in Sideways.

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Downsizing (2017)

The narrative structure of Downsizing is baffling.

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Anatomy of a Fall (2023)

Anatomy of a Fall’s script offers a rich landscape of ideas intelligently explored.

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TV Review Guest Post

Gangs of London, Season 1, Episode 2

Something that sets Gangs of London apart as a TV production is the pedigree of the directors brought in to work on it.

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Review

Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)

Killers of the Flower Moon is a Martin Scorsese film.