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Nick Kush

Nick Kush

A current young professional in the Richmond, Virginia area, Nick founded MovieBabble in October of 2016 when he was a bored college student with nothing else to do. (And he kicks himself every day that his story isn't better.) Nick is also a member of the Internet Film Critics Society and the Washington, D.C. Area Film Critics Association. You can follow him on Twitter @nkush42

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    ‘Chop Shop’: Forced into the American Dream

    by Nick Kush February 21, 2021
    by Nick Kush February 21, 2021

    For all the griping we do collectively when child performances go wrong, we don’t often give them enough praise when they go right. Sure, even the best actors can struggle to connect with an unsteady…

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    ‘Man Push Cart’ and the Inescapability of Poverty

    by Nick Kush February 16, 2021
    by Nick Kush February 16, 2021

    It’s fitting that The Criterion Collection is releasing Ramin Bahrani’s Man Push Cart as part of its February releases just a few weeks after his latest film, The White Tiger, dropped on Netflix. Superficially, seeing Bahrani…

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  • PodcastsThe MovieBabble Podcast

    Sundance 2021 Megapod!

    by Nick Kush February 16, 2021
    by Nick Kush February 16, 2021

    Sundance 2021 is in the books, and although none of us could make the trip to Park City, UT this year, the festival still provided for some highly memorable moments. (Not to mention some surprisingly…

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  • HorrorReviews

    Sundance Film Festival 2021 Review: ‘In the Earth’

    by Nick Kush February 3, 2021
    by Nick Kush February 3, 2021

    Ben Wheatley’s remake of Rebecca is, uh… something. From the beginning, it felt like an odd pairing. (“You mean to tell me the guy who had Brie Larson, Cillian Murphy, Armie Hammer, Sharlto Copley, and…

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    Sundance Film Festival 2021 Review: ‘Mother Schmuckers’

    by Nick Kush January 31, 2021
    by Nick Kush January 31, 2021

    After watching two idiots attempting to pan sear their own shit and feed it to their mother in the opening scene of Mother Schmuckers, I have concluded that Cinema is now dead. I’m bracing for…

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    Sundance Film Festival 2021 Review: ‘The Most Beautiful Boy in the World’

    by Nick Kush January 30, 2021
    by Nick Kush January 30, 2021

    For many, their introduction to Björn Andrésen was watching him as an old man falling off a cliff during the ättestupa scene in Midsommar, followed by the all-too-gruesome moment of him having his skull smashed in…

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    Sundance Film Festival 2021 Review: ‘Human Factors’

    by Nick Kush January 29, 2021
    by Nick Kush January 29, 2021

    Human Factors begins on a rather ominous note: the camera slowly makes its way around the downstairs of Nina and Jan’s (Sabine Timoteo and Mark Waschke) vacation home as they and their kids, Max and…

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    ‘Outside the Wire’ Loses Itself in Dreary Cyborg Action

    by Nick Kush January 20, 2021
    by Nick Kush January 20, 2021

    I don’t know about you, but I certainly didn’t go into Outside the Wire expecting it to function as a critique of the U.S. military. Mikael Håfström’s latest operates with the idea that if the military continues…

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    Nick Kush’s Top 10 Worst Movies of 2020

    by Nick Kush January 13, 2021
    by Nick Kush January 13, 2021

    So many thoughts run through my head when I’m watching a truly terrible movie: Why am I here? Why do I like inflicting pain on myself? Do I secretly like it? Why didn’t I spend…

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    Nick Kush’s Top 10 Best Movies of 2020

    by Nick Kush January 7, 2021
    by Nick Kush January 7, 2021

    For all the time spent lamenting the end of cinema post-March, there were still plenty of great movies to see in 2020. This year marked the largest number of new movies I’ve seen in a…

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    2020 in Review: From ‘Tenet’ to Josh Gad Pooping Dirt

    by Nick Kush January 2, 2021
    by Nick Kush January 2, 2021

    2020 is mercilessly over, but before we close the book entirely on the very, very hellish year, Collin, Brennan, and I look back on the year that was in movies. But instead of doing the…

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    ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ and ‘Soul’ Lead a Packed Christmas Slate

    by Nick Kush December 28, 2020
    by Nick Kush December 28, 2020

    For all the movies that have been pushed back this year, Christmas Day felt like a return to normalcy with releases such as Wonder Woman 1984, Soul, The Midnight Sky, Promising Young Woman, and We Can…

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    ‘Mank’ Is an Idiosyncratic, Cynical Look Into an Alternate History

    by Nick Kush December 17, 2020
    by Nick Kush December 17, 2020

    Citizen Kane. Decent flick. Odds are you were forced to study it endlessly in your Intro to Film course in college — it’s second only to Breathless among the films you were most likely to hate…

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    ‘Superintelligence’ Does the Bare Minimum at Every Turn

    by Nick Kush December 2, 2020
    by Nick Kush December 2, 2020

    An artificial intelligence studies someone who is apparently the most average human on Earth to learn more about humanity as a whole. At the end of this guinea pig session, the artificial intelligence will take…

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    ‘Wonder Woman 1984’ Is Coming to HBO Max and ‘The Princess Switch’ Reigns Supreme on Netflix

    by Nick Kush November 23, 2020
    by Nick Kush November 23, 2020

    It turns out we’re going to have a new superhero movie in 2020 after all. Wonder Woman 1984 is headed to HBO Max on Christmas, but is this a risky financial move? Will a boost…

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    Denver Film Festival 2020 Review: ‘Women in Blue’

    by Nick Kush November 17, 2020
    by Nick Kush November 17, 2020

    It’s pretty safe to say our relationship to the police has forever changed in the wake of George Floyd’s death on May 25th. Although it goes without saying it should have never gotten to that point…

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    Denver Film Festival 2020 Review: ‘Farewell Amor’

    by Nick Kush November 16, 2020
    by Nick Kush November 16, 2020

    There’s something about the way Farewell Amor demands your attention that is unbelievably comforting. Maybe it’s because it functions as a triptych yet still seems formless and character-driven. Perhaps all the wonderful, reserved performances put…

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    Denver Film Festival 2020 Review: ‘Little Fish’

    by Nick Kush November 13, 2020
    by Nick Kush November 13, 2020

    We’re getting to the point where noticing similarities between a movie and the hellscape that is the current pandemic is reaching levels of self-parody. (“She Dies Tomorrow has a virus that spreads from person to…

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    Denver Film Festival 2020 Review: ‘The Letter’

    by Nick Kush November 11, 2020
    by Nick Kush November 11, 2020

    We normally attribute accusations of witchcraft to the Salem witch trials, or some other time in the distant past that was more conducive to such barbaric measures. Little do we realize that many innocent people…

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    Denver Film Festival 2020 Review: ‘Undine’

    by Nick Kush November 10, 2020
    by Nick Kush November 10, 2020

    What happens when you mix threads of The Shape of Water with economic European storytelling and pervasive sadness? You probably get something like Christian Petzold’s Undine, an update of the European mythology in which a…

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    Denver Film Festival 2020 Review: ‘Ema’

    by Nick Kush November 9, 2020
    by Nick Kush November 9, 2020

    Pablo Larraín begins Ema with an indelible image: fire engulfs a traffic light in the middle of a street, slowly making its way down from the red light to the green light with the titular…

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    Denver Film Festival 2020 Review: ‘Night of the Kings’

    by Nick Kush November 8, 2020
    by Nick Kush November 8, 2020

    Ancient myth collides with modern society in Philippe Lacôte’s Night of the Kings, a film that takes place in the La MACA prison in Abidjan on the southern side of the Ivory Coast. The guards…

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    Five Reasons to Add ‘Kill, Baby…Kill!’ to Your Spooky Season Watchlist

    by Nick Kush October 30, 2020
    by Nick Kush October 30, 2020

    My favorite part of the Halloween season is watching spooky films for the very first time. Whether it’s watching classic horror movies I should have seen a long time ago or unearthing a few cult fascinations, every…

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    Middleburg Film Festival 2020 Review: ‘One Night in Miami’

    by Nick Kush October 29, 2020
    by Nick Kush October 29, 2020

    Regina King makes everything better, doesn’t she? Lately, she’s been on another level, winning the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her beautiful performance in Barry Jenkins’ If Beale Street Could Talk and quickly moving on…

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    Middleburg Film Festival 2020 Review: ‘Assassins’

    by Nick Kush October 28, 2020
    by Nick Kush October 28, 2020

    On February 13th, 2017, Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of Kim Jong-un, was assassinated at the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia after being attacked with the VX nerve agent, an extremely toxic chemical that has…

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    Middleburg Film Festival 2020 Review: ‘Concrete Cowboy’

    by Nick Kush October 24, 2020
    by Nick Kush October 24, 2020

    MovieBabble continues to be my not-so-subtle avenue to share my love for my hometown of Philadelphia, and what better way to continue that trend than to talk about a movie where Idris Elba rides a…

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    Middleburg Film Festival 2020 Review: ‘Sound of Metal’

    by Nick Kush October 21, 2020
    by Nick Kush October 21, 2020

    In case you weren’t already aware, Riz Ahmed is super talented. With Sound of Metal and Mogul Mowgli playing to overwhelmingly positive praise on the festival circuit, this is the sort of coming out party for…

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    Middleburg Film Festival 2020 Review: ‘MLK/FBI’

    by Nick Kush October 19, 2020
    by Nick Kush October 19, 2020

    For as much as Martin Luther King Jr. did for this country, it’s exasperating seeing the amount of effort the government put into trying to discredit him. As recently declassified documents show, the FBI began…

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  • PodcastsThe MovieBabble Podcast

    The Pod of the Chicago 7

    by Nick Kush October 19, 2020
    by Nick Kush October 19, 2020

    Netflix dropped what is most likely going to be a BIG awards contender come Oscars season (if that even happens) in Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7. While Hubie Halloween reigned supreme atop…

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    Middleburg Film Festival 2020 Review: ‘Sylvie’s Love’

    by Nick Kush October 18, 2020
    by Nick Kush October 18, 2020

    A multi-year romance set in the 1950s Harlem jazz scene starring Tessa Thompson? Sounds promising, right? Eugene Ashe’s Sylvie’s Love has so many things going for it, following Thompson as the bright-eyed, ambitious Sylvie who begins…

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