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Review: Nightmare Alley
Two time Academy Award winner Guillermo Del Toro returns to the big screen with Nightmare Alley, his first film since his Best Picture winning The Shape of Water back in 2017. Like that film, Nightmare Alley is a breathtakingly gorgeous visual feast across the board. Also like that film, I went into it with my…
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Review: Spider-Man: No Way Home
By Christian DiMartino Alright, warning you now: this is the one where I geek out. Spider-Man: No Way Home has finally arrived, after months of talk and fan theories (none of which I will confirm today), the film has arrived. And I’ll just come out and say it: I adored this movie. Chances are, if…
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Review: The French Dispatch
Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch feels like the blueprint of a great Wes Anderson comedy. Those of us who enjoy his films know that they each have a distinct look, feel, and style; when we watch a Wes Anderson movie, we know we’re watching a Wes Anderson movie (see: The Royal Tenenbaums, Fantastic Mr. Fox,…
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Review: The Card Counter
Over the last three years or so, I’ve really grown to love the hell out of Academy Award nominee (God, that feels good) Paul Schrader. Not just as a filmmaker (see: Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Blue Collar, Light Sleeper, Auto Focus, Affliction, etc) and writer (the aforementioned films, and Taxi Driver and Raging…
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Review: Zack Snyder’s Justice League
By Christian DiMartino Well, I was wrong. In the case of Zack Snyder’s Justice League, I was wrong on two counts. The first being, for the years after the release of Justice League, fans cried out for the quote-on-quote “Snyder Cut.” The background surrounding this cut, I shall try to dive into in a minute.…
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First Time Watch: 4:44 Last Day on Earth
1/2 By Christian DiMartino Apocalyptic films come in two different forms. Some, or the majority, choose to focus on the disaster that is occurring, or heading towards earth. The others, or few, focus on the people involved. That’s not to say that the previous don’t focus on the people, but when they do, the people…
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“I Sometimes Wish I’d Never Been Born at All!”: Final Oscar Predictions and Preferences
By Christian DiMartino The Oscars are on Sunday, and normally I’d be all in. But this time, the end can’t come any sooner. I am sick to death of griping about this fairly weak list of Best Picture nominees and all of the other mistakes that that have been made. And bad mistakes… they’ve made…
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