Nick Hoffman

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Note all of my star ratings are actually in the SF Chronicle “Little Man” rating system, so please imagine them as such.

Favorite films

  • Metropolis
  • The Conversation
  • Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
  • O Brother, Where Art Thou?

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  • The Electric State

    ★★

  • The Boy and the Wind

    ★★★

  • Bobby

    ★★★

  • At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul

    ★★★½

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  • Annette

    Annette

    ★★★★½

    Just because it’s fake doesn’t mean it wont bleed.
      
    Rhythmic repetitions and stark juxtapositions send us staring into the dark abyss.

    This is Ron Mael’s knowing sneer made cinema.

    “Hey kids, lets put on a show. It just so happens to be a brutal insane tragedy.” Energy.  

    Every flaw feels intentional.

    This was my most anticipated movie of the year since seeing Sparks Brothers in January and I’m really wrestling with it and probably will be for some time. See it in a theater if you can. If you can’t, play it LOUD.

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  • When You Finish Saving the World

    When You Finish Saving the World

    ★½

    Like masturbating to slam poetry about native oppression while a big red light turns round and round.

    Sundance 2022 Feature 1

  • Crimewave

    Crimewave

    ★★★★★

    Truly a transcendent experience. More terrifying than The Evil Dead and insanely funny. The entire sound department in this movie crushes it so hard, they're truly the stars. The best kind of live action cartoon filmmaking. The domino doors scene is what the cinema is all about.