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TIFF Journal: Knives Out

Jason Gorber — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 12:00:21 +0000

The most obnoxious thing I can say about Rian Johnson’s Knives Out is that I prefer its mix of genre tropes and social commentary to Jordan Peele’s Get Out. Frankly, the mix of Clue with an acerbic and biting look at race, class, and privilege in America is more entertaining to me than taking The...

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TIFF Journal (Belated): Uncut Gems

Jason Gorber — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 15:00:19 +0000

If the only thing that Uncut Gems contributed to cinematic history was a blisteringly excellent scene during a Passover seder, then, in the parlance of “Dayenu” that’s sung during the meal by Jews around the world, “It would have sufficed”. Yet the Safdie brothers’ most recent film is an ode to obsession and anxiety that...

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‘Sorry to Bother You’ Review: Not Worth the Bother

Jason Gorber — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 19:00:10 +0000

I’m sorry, ‘Sorry to Bother You’, but I just didn’t like you very much. I’m sure a lot of the problem is down to me. I saw you mid festival at Sundance earlier this year, where you were one among many films dealing with similar issues of justice, be they racial or economic, and simply...

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Now Streaming: ‘Death Note’

Philip Brown — Wed, 23 Aug 2017 19:00:16 +0000

In a strange series of events that will likely only become more common, the biggest movie of the week is debuting on Netflix. The sort of weird genre mash-up that would comfortably fit into a late summer theatrical release, ‘Death Note’ was abandoned by Warner Bros. at the last hour and is now one of...

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