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TIFF Journal: Assassination Nation

Philip Brown — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 18:00:21 +0000

Sam “Son of Barry” Levinson’s second feature, Assassination Nation, is a big, bold and insane satire that’s angry about most of the things going on in internet-obsessed culture. One of the many obvious reference points that Levinson is working from is National Born Killers and his flick is just as confused and ambitious as that...

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‘The Bad Batch’ Review: Arty Mad Max

Philip Brown — Wed, 21 Jun 2017 16:00:46 +0000

A few years ago, Ana Lily Amirpour made quite a name for herself with the delightfully offbeat ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night‘. Billed as a “feminist Iranian vampire Western” and boasting a deadpan Jim Jarmusch influence, there was nothing else quite like the film on screens before or since. Now she’s back with...

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TIFF Journal: ‘The Bad Batch’

Philip Brown — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 16:00:42 +0000

Ana Lily Amirpour had a striking directorial debut with the black-and-white Iranian vampire Western ‘A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night‘. Clearly a filmmaker of great talent and imagination, she’s returned this year with a bitter dystopian tale filled with social commentary, grungy imagery, brutality and desperation, but little action. It’s a striking creation, especially...

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