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Sundance Journal: The Lodge

Jason Gorber — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:00:18 +0000

Sundance often has sleeper hits come out of the Midnight Section. (2018 saw both Mandy and Hereditary.) This year’s boldest film seems to be The Lodge, the English-language debut by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, the Austrian team behind 2014’s celebrated Goodnight Mommy. Ostensibly a family drama where people outdo each other in behaving badly,...

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Cannes Journal: ‘Under the Silver Lake’

Jason Gorber — Tue, 29 May 2018 17:00:54 +0000

In 2014, David Robert Mitchell’s slow-build ‘It Follows’ played the Critics’ Week selection at the Cannes Film Festival and took the genre world by storm. There was of course big anticipation for his return to Cannes with ‘Under the Silver Lake’. With a cast that includes stalwart performers like Andrew Garfield, Riley Keough and Topher...

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Cannes Journal: ‘The House That Jack Built’

Jason Gorber — Tue, 22 May 2018 16:00:02 +0000

Lars von Trier has been banned from Cannes since 2011 when he joked about his own fascist tendencies. Invited back (but not in competition), the Danish master of the melancholic returns with a dark descent into damnation. ‘The House That Jack Built’ is a serial killer film like no other, tracing the title character (played...

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Contest: Win ‘Logan Lucky’ on Blu-ray and Ultra HD!

Josh Zyber — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 13:00:52 +0000

How lucky can you get? We’re giving away Steven Soderbergh’s comedic heist caper ‘Logan Lucky‘ on 4k Ultra HD Blu-ray this week. Don’t miss your chance to take one home. To win a copy of the disc, all you have to do is participate in our photo caption contest by giving us a funny or...

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‘Logan Lucky’ Review: Soderbergh Gets Silly

Philip Brown — Thu, 17 Aug 2017 16:00:21 +0000

The release of ‘Logan Lucky’ marks a return from self-imposed cinematic retirement for director Steven Soderbergh. You’d think that might mean the Oscar-winning filmmaker has an extra important and ambitious project that forced him back into the art form. Nope. The guy just wanted to have fun and has delivered one of his most endearingly...

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‘It Comes at Night’ Review: A Dark Apocalypse

Philip Brown — Fri, 09 Jun 2017 15:00:41 +0000

Kind of a zombie movie without the zombies and certainly a film without hope, ‘It Comes at Night’ is a brutal, gut-wrenching and cynical stab at the apocalyptic pandemic genre. Don’t go unless you want to feel worse about humanity. Writer/director Trey Edwards Shults (‘Krisha’) doesn’t exactly waste time on niceties with his sophomore effort....

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‘American Honey’ Review: Sweet But Slow-Moving

Philip Brown — Thu, 13 Oct 2016 16:00:36 +0000

The latest feature from writer/director Andrea Arnold (‘Fish Tank‘, ‘Wuthering Heights’) shows an artist growing in her personal style and ambition, but is also the textbook definition of “too much of a good thing.” When Arnold’s rambling, improvisational production style meshes with her vision of lost American youth, ‘American Honey’ can be an electrifying observational...

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TIFF Journal: ‘American Honey’

Philip Brown — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 15:00:30 +0000

‘American Honey’ is a tricky movie because most of its greatest strengths double down as its biggest weaknesses. The American debut from British filmmaker Andrea Arnold (‘Fish Tank‘) is a rambling road odyssey populated primarily by non-actors (plus Shia LeBeouf). The movie is defined more by fleeting moments of atmosphere and character than by plot...

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