The Guest is an Absolute Blast of Genre-Blending Cinema As soon as the title card of Adam…
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Eden at least has a great soundtrack going for it… I suppose it’s a right of passage…
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With eXistenZ, David Cronenberg Out-Matrixed The Matrix In 1999, The Wachowski siblings released a film that is…
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31 Days of Horror: The House of the Devil As far as personal histories with a film…
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These days, the superhero genre is one of the most bankable genres of film. However, a quarter-century…
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Sundance 2017 has come to a close for one of our writers. Here are some of the best films Dylan Griffin had the pleasure of seeing.
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Sundance 2017: ‘Oklahoma City’ – Our terrifying past has become our terrifying present
The explosion in Oklahoma City on April 19th, 1995 remains the largest domestic attack on U.S. soil…
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Sundance 2017: ‘Don’t Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl!’ – Young Love’s Magical Nightmare
I walked into Don’t Swallow My Heart, Alligator Girl! just based on the strength of that title…
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Sundance 2017: ‘Golden Exits’ – Alex Ross Perry’s Meditation on Fleeting Connections
I’ve now seen three of Alex Ross Perry’s four films, and I still can’t pin him down.…
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Sundance 2017 – ‘Mudbound’ is a Gorgeous, Sprawling Southern Americana Epic
Dee Rees is a name that gets brought up often in conversations about great new talents in…
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Sundance 2017: ‘Wind River’ – Taylor Sheridan is a good writer, but not yet a good director
‘Wind River’ contains the pieces of a possibly great film, but director Taylor Sheridan can’t quite weave them together.
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Sundance 2017: ‘Killing Ground’ is Another Brutal, Unforgiving Work of Australian Terror
Damien Power’s ‘Killing Ground’ is another effective, sobering and violent entry into Australian horror that strangely ends up having much to say about our relationship to violence.
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Sundance 2017: ‘Lady Macbeth’ – Too Sleazy to be Classy, Too Classy to be Sleazy
It’s a conflict as old as they come. Sleaze is inherently unclassy, and class is inherently unsleazy. In William Oldroyd’s directorial debut, Katherine (Florence Pugh) is a bride sold into marriage to an unloving, cruel husband in 19th century England.
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Sundance 2017: ‘I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore’ is Better Living Through Vengeance
Macon Blair’s film works as both a dark comedy and tense thriller, as terrifying at times as it is hilarious.
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Sundance is only like a month away, and it’s always a fun way to kick off the new year by sifting through the lineup and screening schedules for some of the best films of the upcoming year.