Queer film critic out of the NYC area. Have been published at IGN, The Daily Beast, Awards Daily, and more. Lover of all genres.
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The Assessment 2024
A strong example of low budget sci-fi as a means of meaningful social commentary, The Assessment is a clever-enough exploration of what it means for our most career-oriented generation to be effective parents. The film smartly plays with the relationship between innovation and the love one can harbor for a child, as well as the connections technology might harbor that some could deem as good enough. Alicia Vikander hasn’t been this good since Ex Machina, sneakily replacing Elisabeth Olsen and…
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The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie 2024
We really need to have more wackiness for wackiness’ sake in the world. This latest addition to the Looney Tunes canon is equal parts funny and weird. It doesn’t quite find a way to balance a feature-length plot with its humor, but it starts and ends really strong and got a lot of big laughs out of me.
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Longlegs 2024
Creepy though not necessarily scary, Longlegs starts as a cleverly shot and incredibly tense Silence of the Lambs riff before shifting into something a little more far out. Maika Monroe is *amazing* while Nicolas Cage doesn’t quite get the tone right, too often slipping into B-movie madness rather than conjuring something legitimately sinister.
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Anora 2024
Sean Baker is an expert realist. Anora goes broad with its comedy—to great effect—and yet the whole thing feels entirely real. Set in a Coney Island winter, there’s a rawness to the aesthetic, performances, and script that let this larger than life story shed its cinematic presentation in favor of feeling like a fly on the wall. More so than Baker’s previous efforts, Anora is a comedy—what happens when a Brooklyn stripper falls for a Russian Timothee Chalamet lookalike who…
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