Carrie Coon torches the screen contemporary version of a costume drama
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Author: Dan Scully
Dan Scully is a film buff and humorist living in a tiny apartment in Philadelphia. He hosts the podcast I Like to Movie Movie and is the proud father to twin cactuses named Riggs & Murtaugh. Also, he doesn't really mind when Batman kills people. Follow him on Twitter and Letterboxd.
I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS (dir. Charlie Kaufman): Film review
Maybe my love for this movie is mostly because it’s a rock-and-roll act of writing
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SPUTNIK (dir. Egor Abramenko): Film review
A crafty sci-fi thriller that fans of the genre will find compelling
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RELIC (dir. Natalie Erika James): Film review
The scariest thing I can think of, outside of a talking octopus that walks on land, is mental decline
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YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT (dir. David Koepp): Film review
On a rainy day with nothing better to do, You Should Have Left will prove serviceable enough for non-discerning viewers
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7500 (dir. Patrick Vollrath): Film review
Taking place entirely within the cockpit of a hijacked commercial airliner, this minimalist performance piece benefits greatly from a high-level of sustained tension.
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BABYTEETH (dir. Shannon Murphy): Film review
An A-rate tale of flawed, kindhearted humans doing their best to be as good as they possibly can.
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SHRED AMERICA (dir. Arthur Swidzinski): Film review
Back in the summer of 2008, a group of skaters decided to go on an adventure.
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THE KING OF STATEN ISLAND (dir. Judd Apatow): Film review
A moving tale of a delayed coming of age
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THE TRIP TO GREECE (dir. Michael Winterbottom): Film review
While not an unwelcome addition to a now decade-long odyssey of travelers Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan, this final entry feels a bit flatter than its predecessors; a bit perfunctory.
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THE WRETCHED (dir. Brett Pierce, Drew T. Pierce): Film review
It works so hard to invoke so many influences that it dilutes itself from being as memorable or as effective as it so clearly wants to be.
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THE HUNT (dir. Craig Zobel): Film review
Above all dumb political concerns, this is a “humans being hunted” movie, and it’s a pretty good one.
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SNATCHERS (dir. Benji Kleiman & Stephen Cedars): Film review
SNATCHERS is the next in a current wave of splatterfests with a social conscience, and it’s a top-tier entry.
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BIRDS OF PREY (dir. Cathy Yan): Film review
What is it about the world of Batman that enchants me so?
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THE GENTLEMEN (dir. Guy Ritchie): Film review
Ritchie is celebrating a welcome return to form, complete with bullets, Brits, and enough creative uses of the word “cunt” to make your grandmother shake her head in shame
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CATS (dir. Tom Hooper): A sin against theater, film, cats, and humanity
Maybe one day I’ll be able to scrape its rancid essence from my memory entirely.
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LITTLE JOE (dir. Jessica Hausner): Film review
A high concept, a solid design, and more than a few creepy moments rooted in existential terror, but struggles to fill a feature-length run-time
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THE VAST OF NIGHT (dir. Andrew Patterson): 2019 Philadelphia Film Festival review
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
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BLOW THE MAN DOWN (dir. Bridget Savage Cole + Danielle Krudy): 2019 Philadelphia Film Festival review
An exciting film from a duo of filmmakers who I will surely be watching out for.
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DOGS DON’T WEAR PANTS (dir. J-P Valkeapää): 2019 Philadelphia Film Festival review
Even those not on board with the film’s themes will be won over by the sensory experience
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