ARGENTINA, 1985 (2022)
“a tobacco stained real-life political thriller”
Read MoreTHE SEA BEAST (2022)
“The water effects are pretty spectacular”
Read MoreBARDO: FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS (2022)
“like grains of sand falling through your fingers, it left me unfulfilled”
Read MoreEMPIRE OF LIGHT (2022)
“It’s all steak, no sizzle.”
Read MoreTHE QUIET GIRL (2022)
“it wasn’t just a clever title”
Read More2023 OSCAR ANIMATED SHORTS
“Can the spastically styled tale of losing one’s virginity beat the star-studded kiddie cutie?”
Read More2023 OSCAR LIVE ACTION SHORTS
“Perhaps not the strongest grouping but, like the docs, not full of depression and sadness”
Read More2023 OSCAR DOCUMENTARY SHORTS
Surprisingly, these weren’t soul crushing as with most years.
Read MoreWOMEN TALKING (2022)
“Being a worthy story does not a good movie make”
Read MoreMRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS (2022)
“1950s period piece about haute couture clothing is a film TAILOR MADE for a costuming Oscar nod”
Read MoreLIVING (2022)
“Just watch Ikiru”
Read MoreTHE WHALE (2022)
“extremely emotionally manipulative but without completely sacrificing its worthiness”
Read MoreANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA (2023)
“a vast vacuous CGI plain of mediocrity, quickly losing any of the drive, excitement or sheer fun that you expected”
Read MoreTO LESLIE (2022)
“She is master of the screen and drug me into the dusty distance”
Read MoreCAUSEWAY (2022)
“a solid workmanlike tight 90”
Read More5G: THE RECKONING (2023)
“It’s empty scaffolding propping up a digital rotted foundation”
Read MoreINFINITY POOL (2023)
“left adrift in its empty playground of trivial violence and vacant reflection”
Read MoreKNOCK AT THE CABIN (2023)
“a film that, beyond the short story premise of intrigue and stakes, falls genuinely flat”
Read MoreTHE DEVIL CONSPIRACY (2023)
“Once implanted with Lil’ Jesus, the woman is taken by a goblin/troll/demon/rock man to a cage and lowered to the upper ring of hell (?) to have a smoke worm of Satan wriggle into her. I have no idea…”
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