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Avatar: The Way of Water Offers a Thin Plot But a Visual Upgrade on Reality: Review

Liz Shannon Miller — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 17:00:15 +0000

The Pitch: If the phrase “we’re going back to Pandora!” is meaningless to you, or makes you think of a music streaming service, totally understandable. But y’all, we’re going back to Pandora, the Pandora in this case being the faraway planet at the center of James Cameron’s Avatar: The Way…

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Avatar: The Way of Water Offers a Thin Plot But a Visual Upgrade on Reality: Review
Liz Shannon Miller

Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio Breathes New Life Into the Classic Fable: Review

Clint Worthington — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 17:00:01 +0000

The Pitch: 2022 has really seemed like The Year of Pinocchio. While the original 1883 Italian novel by Carlo Collodi has had its fair share of adaptations over the years (from classic Disney delights to, well, Pauly Shore in middle-aged twink mode), this year saw new takes on the material from…

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Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio Breathes New Life Into the Classic Fable: Review
Clint Worthington

Emancipation Review: A Heavy-Handed Film With Powerful Moments Can’t Get Out of its Own Way

Marcus Shorter — Tue, 06 Dec 2022 18:35:49 +0000

The Pitch: “Then what?” There’s a moment in Emancipation where the film establishes a modus operandi. A white man named Fassel (Ben Foster), while sitting with his two partners, explains the actual reason behind slavery’s cruelty and white supremacy. Coldly and bluntly, he tells a childhood story about the enslaved…

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Emancipation Review: A Heavy-Handed Film With Powerful Moments Can’t Get Out of its Own Way
Marcus Shorter

Ramin Bahrani Tests the Conscience of the American Id in 2nd Chance: Review

Clint Worthington — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 15:00:47 +0000

This review is part of our coverage of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. The Pitch: America is a land of mythmaking: if you’re savvy and lucky (and often, unscrupulous) enough, you can carve out a legend of your own design. That’s what happened to Richard Davis, the oddball inventor of the…

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Ramin Bahrani Tests the Conscience of the American Id in 2nd Chance: Review
Clint Worthington

Violent Night Review: Finally, a Home Alone/Die Hard/The Northman Mash-up for the Holidays

Liz Shannon Miller — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 19:38:05 +0000

The Pitch: It’s Christmas Eve, and Santa Claus (David Harbour) is having a rough time of it — while he’s got plenty of Christmas magic to power his sleigh, otherwise he’s mostly relying on booze to get him through the tedium of delivering video games to the children of the…

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Violent Night Review: Finally, a Home Alone/Die Hard/The Northman Mash-up for the Holidays
Liz Shannon Miller

Meet Me in the Bathroom Is a Time Capsule of 2000s Indie Rock

Clint Worthington — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 01:20:58 +0000

This review was originally part of our coverage of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. The Pitch: Pitched between the doomsday-prepping of Y2K and the existential horror of 9/11, 2000s New York was also home to another seismic change in American culture: the burgeoning indie-rock scene, where dingy clubs on the Lower…

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Meet Me in the Bathroom Is a Time Capsule of 2000s Indie Rock
Clint Worthington

Noah Baumbach Delightfully Skewers Our Fear of Death in White Noise: Review

Clint Worthington — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:10:05 +0000

This review is part of our coverage of the 2022 New York Film Festival. The Pitch: Don DeLillo’s White Noise is one of those “great American novels” long thought to be unfilmable, a scattered, acerbic takedown of late American capitalism and its incessant need to distract from the inevitability of death…

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Noah Baumbach Delightfully Skewers Our Fear of Death in White Noise: Review
Clint Worthington

Bones And All Sucks the Marrow Of Its Horrific Premise: Review

Clint Worthington — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 19:00:33 +0000

This review is part of our coverage of the 2022 New York Film Festival. The Pitch: Something’s a bit off about Maren (Taylor Russell) — when we first meet her, she looks like an ordinary teen just trying to finish high school and fit in with her new environment. But it’s…

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Bones And All Sucks the Marrow Of Its Horrific Premise: Review
Clint Worthington

The Wonder Review: Florence Pugh Captivates In a Period Drama Filled With Big Ideas

Vanessa Armstrong — Wed, 16 Nov 2022 15:00:29 +0000

The Pitch: We are nothing without stories, and the characters in Sebastián Lelio’s The Wonder strongly believe in their stories. That’s the message of the film, and it’s a message that the movie explicitly states to the audience right up top. (That message is also conveyed via an unorthodox approach,…

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The Wonder Review: Florence Pugh Captivates In a Period Drama Filled With Big Ideas
Vanessa Armstrong

The Fabelmans Sees Steven Spielberg Turn The Camera On Himself: Review

Erin Brady — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 17:00:52 +0000

This review is part of our coverage of the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. The Pitch: If you are familiar with Steven Spielberg beyond his movies, you likely know that he had a bit of an unconventional upbringing. His mother was an eccentric character, while his father seemingly loved her…

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The Fabelmans Sees Steven Spielberg Turn The Camera On Himself: Review
Erin Brady

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Review: A Superhero Film About the Very Human Need to Grieve

Liz Shannon Miller — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 17:00:51 +0000

The Pitch: Rest in power, King T’Challa, and Chadwick Boseman. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever begins by immediately delving into the loss of the Wakandan leader and superhero, but the character’s death from an unspecified illness is hardly a prologue — it is the foundation upon which writer/director Ryan Coogler and…

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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Review: A Superhero Film About the Very Human Need to Grieve
Liz Shannon Miller

My Policeman Review: Harry Styles and Cast Arrest in Essential Queer Story

Amber Dowling — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 17:00:37 +0000

This review is part of our coverage of the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. The Pitch: In 1950s Britain, same-sex relationships are illegal. Gay men are arrested and thrown in jail for “unlawful” acts, or beaten by a hateful public. Those who pursue relationships must do so in secret or…

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My Policeman Review: Harry Styles and Cast Arrest in Essential Queer Story
Amber Dowling

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Shines Thanks to a Deadpan Daniel Radcliffe: Review

Sarah Kurchak — Fri, 04 Nov 2022 15:30:08 +0000

This review was originally published as part of our coverage of the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival. The Pitch: Based on the 100% true story of comedian/musician/renegade polka king’s rapid rise to superstardom, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is an “unflinching” look at “Weird” Al Yankovic’s chaotic life. From his…

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Weird: The Al Yankovic Story Shines Thanks to a Deadpan Daniel Radcliffe: Review
Sarah Kurchak

Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry Captivate in Causeway: Review

Mary Siroky — Thu, 03 Nov 2022 14:00:06 +0000

The Pitch: The idea of home is a complicated one. For some, it’s a North Star, safe, familiar, and steady. For others, it’s a place worth rejecting; people shuck off associations with their places of origin and reinvent themselves constantly. The intricacies around this concept — the good, the bad,…

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Jennifer Lawrence and Brian Tyree Henry Captivate in Causeway: Review
Mary Siroky

Armageddon Time Review: James Gray’s Coming-of-Age ’80s Drama Proves Unsatisfying

Jesse Hassenger — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 18:00:32 +0000

This review is part of our coverage of the 2022 New York Film Festival. The Pitch: James Gray, an experienced outer-borough tour guide, brings us closer to his own Queens past in Armageddon Time, a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age drama (though he says he wasn’t aiming for that genre; more on that…

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Armageddon Time Review: James Gray’s Coming-of-Age ’80s Drama Proves Unsatisfying
Jesse Hassenger