Playwright, magician, theatre maker, teacher, film lover, occasional film endurer.
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Anora 2024
On third watch my score does not change. The verve of the first 1.5 acts (basically everything leading up to the search) does make me scratch my head at the more unsteady, languid pacing of the rest of the film. But most of this still works for me (and ALL of Mikey Madison’s performance works for me).
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The Monkey 2025
As an Osgood Perkins fan, I was so excited for this! Sadly, much of it didn’t work for me. The scares weren’t scary enough, the comedy wasn’t funny enough, and the deaths - while cartoony and fun - somehow felt lacking as well. This makes me sad! I was looking forward to this so much!
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Alex Edelman: Just for Us 2024
I was lucky to catch this on Broadway and it holds up just as strongly in this HBO special format. Alex Edelman’s Just For Us does what all of my favourite comedy hours do: mine a breadth of effective material out of a compelling central premise.
Anchored to a true story of the time Alex - an Ashkenazi Jew - infiltrated a pathetic meeting of white supremacists at an apartment in Queens, Just For Us succeeds in its ability to…
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Ghostlight 2024
Though a couple of emotional beats felt overly sentimental or too convenient, this is nonetheless a powerful, funny, and smartly drawn film about theatre’s unique ability to inspire empathy, to connect us, and to play a role (however small) in healing our wounds.
I’m sure some will roll their eyes at what I just wrote, but Ghostlight mostly succeeds at approaching this idea with a great deal of emotional complexity and discerning restraint. Art certainly can’t fix everything, but it…
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