9 years ago
Reviews (10 posts found)
“Free the Nipple”
After watching Free the Nipple, I’m left with many questions. This pseudo-documentary claims to "Free the Nipple," yet blurs out several instances of topless demonstrations. Why would it do that? Is it just a documentary of pure reenactments or a fictionalized...
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“Song of the Sea”
There was once a time, not so long ago, when hand-drawn animation wasn’t so hard to find in feature films. Even during the early years of the 2000s, Walt Disney Animation Studios and competitors like DreamWorks Animation and Paramount were making traditionally...
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“Top Five”
It’s often said that comedy is the hardest thing for a performer, and it must be hard to be a comedian in the celebrity bubble of Hollywood. Sure, there’s the potential for big franchise paychecks and the adoration of countless fans, but with them comes the er...
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“The Color of Time”
You couldn’t possibly find a more “James Franco” project, produced by and starring James Franco, than The Color of Time, even if you tried. This is certainly not articulated as an insult or mockery, but rather, noted with a bizarre, distant, mild admiration. F...
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“Pioneer”
It’s to Pioneer’s credit that it is able to take something as clinical-sounding as “decompression sickness” and successfully turn it into a tension-ratcheting plot point. In Erik Skjoldbjærg’s early ‘80s-set thriller, the frantic race to the oil reserves at th...
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“Inherent Vice”
Note. This review originally ran as part of our coverage of the 2014 New York Film Festival.
What if Paul Thomas Anderson wasn’t the much-cherished heir apparent to American Cinema that many in certain circles wish him to be? What if the dude just wanted to...
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‘Regarding Susan Sontag’
Having read Andre Gide's journals as a teen, Susan Sontag ran a school paper with editorial notes more complex that many editors twice her age could put together. The same year she graduated high school, then she got married at 17, had a kid at 19, and was ann...
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“Dying of the Light”
A traumatized taxi driver torn between savior and sinner. A kidnapped heiress gone revolutionary. A Calvinist father out to hunt down his porn-actress daughter. The concerns of director Paul Schrader vary in specifics but rarely in terms of overarching themati...
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“Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles”
When going into a biographical film about an already widely-acknowledged genius-level artist, it’s hard not to expect that it could, at any moment, dip into the realm of hagiography—especially one that appears to proudly wear its hero worship on its sleeve, pu...
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“She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry”
Texas women are pissed. The echoing chants outside the state capital in Austin could tell you so. In those halls, Texan women’s right to an abortion was about to become severely restricted to all but a few facilities in one of the largest states in the nation ...
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