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    Tribeca Film Festival 2022 Review: ‘The Integrity of Joseph Chambers’

    by James Y. Lee June 16, 2022
    by James Y. Lee June 16, 2022

    Expanding on the thematic foundation established by his previous feature, The Killing of Two Lovers — a film in which a father of four, emasculated by his wife’s relationship with a new partner in the midst of a…

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  • HorrorReviews

    Tribeca Film Festival 2022 Review: ‘Rounding’

    by James Y. Lee June 15, 2022
    by James Y. Lee June 15, 2022

    Hot off the heels of winning the SXSW Audience Award with his charming, witty, and near-universally loved directorial debut, Saint Frances, writer-director Alex Thompson’s return to the silver screen appears to be a complete tonal shift,…

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  • HorrorReviews

    Tribeca Film Festival 2022 Review: ‘Family Dinner’

    by James Y. Lee June 14, 2022
    by James Y. Lee June 14, 2022

    A devious recipe of psychological manipulation, profoundly unsettling family dynamics, and grisly horror that never quite feels like it coalesces into a full meal, Peter Hengl’s Family Dinner is certainly one of the more interesting horror…

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  • Action/AdventureReviews

    ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ and the Irreplaceable Artistry of Tom Cruise

    by Jack Edgar June 10, 2022
    by Jack Edgar June 10, 2022

    Warning: this review contains unabashed adoration for Tom Cruise.  So leave your shit at the door, no one wants any part of it. Cowards couch their praise of Cruise behind opening statements like, “We all…

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  • HorrorReviews

    ‘The Innocents’ Is a Scary Kids Eye View of Superpowers

    by Brian Connor May 13, 2022
    by Brian Connor May 13, 2022

    Kids, eh? Buncha weirdos the lot of ’em. Not yours obviously, they’re lovely. No offense meant. But they can be confusing little blighters at times, something horror movies have used since at least 1960 with…

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  • FantasyReviews

    ‘Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore’ Should Save This Franchise

    by Aubrey McKay May 5, 2022
    by Aubrey McKay May 5, 2022

    The Secrets of Dumbledore never really stood a chance, did it? A tepid critical response to the first two films and controversy after controversy, left the once-promising “Wizarding World” fumbling its bag. It’s been nearly…

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  • ReviewsScience Fiction

    ‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’: The Daniels’ Latest Is One of the Best Films Ever Made

    by Spencer Henderson April 29, 2022
    by Spencer Henderson April 29, 2022

    Sometimes a film comes around that is so deeply imaginative, so wildly entertaining, and so gut-bustingly hilarious that you leave the theater excited and grateful to have had the opportunity to experience it. These are…

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  • ReviewsThriller

    ‘The Aviary’: A Cult Thriller in Every Way

    by Brian Connor April 27, 2022
    by Brian Connor April 27, 2022

    The Aviary opens on Jillian (Malin Akerman) and Blair (Lorenza Izzo) stumbling into the pre-dawn desert and looking back at a compound that “looks so small from here.” We quickly learn that they are escaping…

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  • Action/AdventureReviews

    ‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’ and the Return of Nicolas Cage

    by Jack Edgar April 27, 2022
    by Jack Edgar April 27, 2022

    A year ago, Nicolas Cage starred in a small, buzzy movie called Pig.  When I wrote about it, I described his performance as somber and moving — an excellent Cage performance that put him back…

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  • Action/AdventureReviews

    ‘The Northman’: A Fierce, Awe-Inspiring Spectacle

    by Sean Coates April 20, 2022
    by Sean Coates April 20, 2022

    Regular MovieBabble readers must be growing tired of every review from yours truly opening with a sermon-esque pontification bemoaning the state of contemporary studio cinema, desperately trying to find some light at the end of…

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  • MusicalsReviews

    ‘Cyrano’: Joe Wright’s His Wrongs

    by Blake Ison April 6, 2022
    by Blake Ison April 6, 2022

    Coming off of the back of the critical failure The Woman in the Window, Joe Wright is making a return to form (of sorts) with his latest picture, the romantic, musical, period piece Cyrano. Based…

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  • ReviewsSuperhero

    ‘The Batman’: A Worthy Epic for an Iconic Hero

    by Sean Coates February 28, 2022
    by Sean Coates February 28, 2022

    As a cynical film reviewer with a chronic case of cape fatigue frustrated and concerned with the current state of Hollywood cinema, it takes a lot for me to muster up any excitement for superhero…

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    Sundance Film Festival 2022 Reviews: ‘When You Finish Saving the World’, ‘Brian and Charles’, and ‘The Cathedral’

    by Nick Kush February 10, 2022
    by Nick Kush February 10, 2022

    When You Finish Saving the World Is it the least shocking film development ever that Jesse Eisenberg, one of our most anxious, idiosyncratic performers, centered his directorial debut around two highly anxious, idiosyncratic characters? If…

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  • DocumentaryReviews

    Sundance Film Festival 2022 Review: ‘Navalny’

    by Nick Kush February 9, 2022
    by Nick Kush February 9, 2022

    The reported heinous acts committed by the Russian government sound like something straight out of a 1970s political thriller. And that’s probably exactly how they like it. “If you want to kill someone,” Alexei Navalny…

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  • ComedyReviews

    Sundance Film Festival 2022 Review: ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’

    by Nick Kush February 8, 2022
    by Nick Kush February 8, 2022

    If you’ve watched an indie film or two in your day, odds are you’ve stumbled upon a movie about a white guy who just can’t figure things out. They have no idea what to do…

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  • DramaReviews

    Being ‘Clean’ Can Get a Bit Messy

    by Patricia Henderson February 3, 2022
    by Patricia Henderson February 3, 2022

    Clean is a passion project of sorts for one Mr. Adrien Brody. He serves as the film’s star, co-writer, co-producer, and even composer. It took about a decade to get this film from his imagination, to…

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  • DocumentaryReviews

    Sundance Film Festival 2022 Review: ‘Fire of Love’

    by Nick Kush February 3, 2022
    by Nick Kush February 3, 2022

    Sara Dosa’s Fire of Love is truly a sensory overload, and not just because of its staggering archival footage of gorgeous volcanoes. On top of that, it’s edited like a French New Wave film to the tune…

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  • ReviewsScience Fiction

    Sundance Film Festival 2022 Review: ‘After Yang’

    by Nick Kush January 26, 2022
    by Nick Kush January 26, 2022

    After Yang has one of my favorite recent open credits sequences: after a few muted back-and-forths, Jake (Colin Farrell), his wife Kyra (Jodie Turner-Smith), his daughter Mika (Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja), and his android Yang (Justin…

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  • DramaReviews

    Sundance Film Festival 2022 Review: ‘Happening’

    by James Y. Lee January 25, 2022
    by James Y. Lee January 25, 2022

    Adapted from author Annie Ernaux’s quasi-memoir of the same title, and having instantly propelled itself into a modern canon of films about the stark realities of abortion — among them being Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3…

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  • ReviewsThriller

    Sundance Film Festival 2022 Review: ‘Resurrection’

    by Nick Kush January 24, 2022
    by Nick Kush January 24, 2022

    Rebecca Hall has been on a tear as of late, starring in one severely disturbing film after the next, while also taking time to direct a very impressive debut feature in Passing (which continues to…

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  • HorrorReviews

    Sundance Film Festival 2022 Review: ‘You Won’t Be Alone’

    by Spencer Henderson January 23, 2022
    by Spencer Henderson January 23, 2022

    If you’ve ever wondered what it would look like if Terrence Malick in The-Tree-of-Life-mode directed a horror film, it would probably look something like Goran Stolevski’s staggering feature debut, You Won’t Be Alone. My first bold statement…

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  • ReviewsThriller

    Sundance Film Festival 2022 Review: ‘Emergency’

    by Spencer Henderson January 22, 2022
    by Spencer Henderson January 22, 2022

    Director Carey Williams has an exceptionally powerful film on his hands with Emergency, the first great film I’ve seen at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. Based on his short film (that also premiered at Sundance)…

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  • AnimationReviews

    ‘Belle’: A Wildly Ambitious, Melodramatic Trip Through “U”

    by James Y. Lee January 14, 2022
    by James Y. Lee January 14, 2022

    Underneath the surface of most films about online life are commonplace themes about appearances and authenticity: the consequences of anonymity, the rapid spread of misinformation, the ways that social media limits expression of our genuine…

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  • ComedyReviews

    ‘Red Rocket’: A Parody of the American Dream

    by Blake Ison January 4, 2022
    by Blake Ison January 4, 2022

    Every once and a while, a filmmaker comes along to flip the script and tackle themes and ideas that most are afraid to touch. Sean Baker has done this his entire career, but especially with…

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  • ReviewsThriller

    ‘Nightmare Alley’ Avoids the Supernatural, but Casts a Haunting Spell Nonetheless

    by Jack Edgar December 29, 2021
    by Jack Edgar December 29, 2021

    “People are desperate to tell you who they are.” This lesson is one of many imparted to Stan (Bradley Cooper) in the first act of Nightmare Alley — the story of a rise and fall…

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  • DramaReviews

    ‘France’: An Aware Reflection of the Artificial Media

    by Ash Sivakumar December 19, 2021
    by Ash Sivakumar December 19, 2021

    The media is composed of a large segment of our contemporary society, being the main channel of collective mass communication. The media consists of broadcasting, publishing, and the internet, which includes, but is not limited…

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  • ReviewsScience Fiction

    ‘Last and First Men’: Contemplating the End of Days

    by Nick Kush December 12, 2021
    by Nick Kush December 12, 2021

    I often find myself listening to Jóhann Jóhannsson’s compositions as I go about my day, either those tied to the films he scored in the 2010s or his original works. He had a knack for…

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  • DocumentaryReviews

    ‘Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time’: A Moving and Deeply Personal Documentary About a Great Writer and Friend

    by Chris van Dijk December 5, 2021
    by Chris van Dijk December 5, 2021

    Kurt Vonnegut: Unstuck in Time is not a conventional documentary, though that was the original intention. Its inception started nearly forty years ago, in 1982. Robert B. Weide had just finished a well-received PBS documentary…

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  • ComedyHorrorReviews

    ‘Black Friday’: The Good News Is It Includes Bruce Campbell, the Bad News Is That It’s Not Very Good

    by Chris van Dijk November 30, 2021
    by Chris van Dijk November 30, 2021

    Adding Bruce Campbell to your cast will automatically attract any genre enthusiast. The man is a legend, possibly one of the most charismatic men on the planet. A man so charismatic, I’m seriously considering watching…

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  • DramaReviews

    ‘Drive My Car’: A Deeply Human Reflection on Grief and Art

    by Spencer Henderson November 27, 2021
    by Spencer Henderson November 27, 2021

    Driving can be a profound experience. It is difficult to articulate the feeling of what it’s like to ponder a great many things while you drive in solitude, or that quiet mutual moment of bonding…

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