YELLOW DOOR: '90s LO-FI FILM CLUB
For cinephiles in general, and Bong Joon-Ho fans in particular, Yellow Door is a nostalgic treat, but an overall lack of explanatory...
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FILM REVIEWS
Mar 13
MAY DECEMBER
Is the camp there to mask the seriousness of the subject in May December, or does director Todd Haynes use it to hide in plain sight that...
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Jan 31
THE GREATEST NIGHT IN POP
The Greatest Night in Pop does not become the greatest music documentary in recent times, even if the film makes up for what it lacks in...
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Oct 27, 2023
THE KILLER
The Killer is as stylish a movie as you'd expect from David Fincher, and probably his most breezily entertaining effort since Panic Room,...
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Sep 28, 2023
THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR
Wes Anderson doubles down on every single one of his indulgent quirks in this Netflix short film adaptation of a Roald Dahl tale, yet...
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Aug 20, 2023
THE MONKEY KING
The spryly animated and stupendously entertaining The Monkey King deftly mixes classic Chinese folklore with modern storytelling and...
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Jul 30, 2023
THEY CLONED TYRONE
The numerous Nancy Drew references are an all too telling omen in Netflix failure They Cloned Tyrone, an odd match between a naïve kid’s...
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Mar 18, 2023
THE MAGICIAN'S ELEPHANT
You can add as many story elements about magic as you want, that doesn’t mean movie magic will suddenly appear out of thin air as The...
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Mar 2, 2023
WE HAVE A GHOST
Even if the final act is way too predictable and emotionally manipulative, We Have A Ghost is a mostly harmless, fun, family-friendly...
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Jan 1, 2023
WHITE NOISE
What’s supposed to be a darkly comedic look at mid-eighties America in Baumbach’s hands becomes a woefully unfunny, numbingly talkative,...
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Dec 27, 2022
MATILDA THE MUSICAL
Despite a nearly two hour runtime there isn't a dull moment in the picture, which includes unbridled fantasy and an assortment of...
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Dec 24, 2022
GLASS ONION
From the beginning the picture is just slightly off: there are too many celebrity cameos, the actual plot takes an awful long time to get...
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Dec 22, 2022
BARDO: FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS
Bardo indulges too much in its own surreal idiosyncrasies and has hardly any interest in satisfying anyone else but the director and his...
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