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Kyle Logan
Tomatometer-approved critic
Biography:
Kyle Logan is a film and television critic and general pop culture writer who has written for Alternative Press, Cultured Vultures, Fangoria, Screen Anarchy, and more. Kyle is particularly interested in horror and animation, as well as genre films written and directed by queer people and women. Along with writing, Kyle organizes a Queer Film Challenge on Letterboxd.
Publications:
Movies reviews only
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Smile 2 (2024) |
[Smile 2] pulls from a variety of sources...to deliver an often effective horror film that bites off more than it can chew. Or perhaps it just chews too long? - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Oct 17, 2024
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Terrifier 3 (2024) |
Leone’s talent for tone control and his ability to shift from...chaotic, blood-soaked joy into a horrifying, blood-soaked hopelessness...makes Terrifier 3 work as more than a special effects exhibition. - Chicago Reader
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| Posted Oct 17, 2024
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Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) |
Joker: Folie à Deux can't escape the sense that it's just trying to get a rise out of its audience. Which is a shame, because it could have been a simple, sweet weirdo love story. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Oct 04, 2024
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Look Back (2024) |
Look Back begins brilliantly before falling prey to one of the worst fads of the last decade. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Oct 04, 2024
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Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters (2022) |
A beautiful documentary that is incredibly informative and surprisingly emotionally potent. - Allergic to the 21st Century
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| Posted Sep 26, 2024
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The Wild Robot (2024) |
The simplification of its initially complex moral universe and [Pedro] Pascal’s not quite up to snuff vocal performance keep The Wild Robot from being perfect, but it’s close. - Allergic to the 21st Century
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| Posted Sep 26, 2024
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The Substance (2024) |
In almost every aspect, The Substance is the most. It wants to smash a giant, indelible footprint into viewers’ minds and, by every metric I can think of, it succeeds. - Allergic to the 21st Century
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| Posted Sep 23, 2024
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AfrAId (2024) |
Afraid is better than expected...and it largely succeeds as a fun genre exercise. If only its aspiration to “say something” didn’t keep it from being pure dumb fun. - Chicago Reader
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| Posted Sep 09, 2024
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) |
A [race] gag marks the movie as Burton in a bad way as well as Burton in a good way. Pulling down his best film in years into something more deeply flawed than a mostly wonderful movie with too many stories battling for screen time. - Allergic to the 21st Century
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| Posted Sep 06, 2024
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Lisa Frankenstein (2024) |
Whatever the issue holding Lisa Frankenstein back from its highest potential, its joys outweigh its flaws and, despite the lack of indelible quotables, it’s great to see Cody back in high school. - Cultured Vultures
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| Posted Sep 04, 2024
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The Crow (2024) |
While it’s bloodsoaked and features passable attempts at cool action scenes, the heart of the film is always Eric and Shelly’s love. And despite all the things working against this unasked-for reboot of a beloved cult film, that love makes it work. - Chicago Reader
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| Posted Aug 29, 2024
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Livescreamers (2023) |
Livescreamers doesn't play out like a predictable slasher. ... A surprisingly insightful exploration of internet micro-celebrity and niche fandoms. ... Here's hoping that this exciting and intelligent entry into the subgenre ushers in more films like it. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Aug 15, 2024
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Alien: Romulus (2024) |
Alien: Romulus feels made by and for people who are familiar with the component parts of an Alien movie but haven’t ever seen one. - Chicago Reader
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| Posted Aug 15, 2024
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Blink Twice (2024) |
We all know something bad is going to happen from the start of Blink Twice... That doesn’t make the majority of the film...any less fun or inviting. Nor does it make the film’s reveal any less impactful. - Cultured Vultures
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| Posted Aug 15, 2024
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Sugarcane (2024) |
Sugarcane is as harrowing as it is vital. It’s a remarkably explicit consideration of intergenerational trauma that manages to center specific suffering without forgoing any aspects of the conditions that birthed such violence. - Chicago Reader
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| Posted Aug 13, 2024
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Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) |
More than anything else, Deadpool & Wolverine is tiring. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Jul 24, 2024
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Last Summer (2023) |
Last Summer fires on all cylinders and is another wonderfully uncomfortable film from one of our greatest working filmmakers. - Allergic to the 21st Century
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| Posted Jul 15, 2024
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Fly Me to the Moon (2024) |
Even at its slightly too long two hours and ten minutes, Fly Me to the Moon is a wonderful reminder that, every so often, swings for a four quadrant hit can knock it out of the park, and in this case, into the stars. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Jul 14, 2024
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Inside Out 2 (2024) |
Inside Out 2 is an enjoyable, funny, and sometimes emotionally impactful film. But it fails to stand among Pixar’s best films because it’s too derivative of those films; and many others. - Allergic to the 21st Century
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| Posted Jul 14, 2024
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#Blue_Whale (2021) |
It’s certainly not perfect, but based on its effectiveness alone #Blue_Whale is one of the best entries in the screenlife subgenre. - Castle of Chills
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| Posted Jul 14, 2024
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Wendell & Wild (2022) |
From Selick’s classic mixture of the macabre and the whimsical in three dimensional stop-motion to shadow plays and some incredible paper cut-out art, the film is a wonder to behold. - Castle of Chills
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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A Pure Place (2021) |
The focus on literal cleanliness as opposed to any metaphorical purity, truly gorgeous visual style, and strong performances make it worth seeking out. - Castle of Chills
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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Flux Gourmet (2022) |
With Flux Gourmet [Peter Strickland] continues his streak of strange, unsettling but undeniably alluring films set in worlds unlike anything else. - Castle of Chills
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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PussyCake (2021) |
Feels like a mix between Albert Pyun’s Vicious Lips and John Gulager’s Feast as the band find themselves in an inexplicable situation full of delightfully disgusting practical gore. - Castle of Chills
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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X (2022) |
A modern slasher masterpiece that loves its ancestors. - Castle of Chills
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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Mad God (2021) |
Issues with the plot are minuscule compared to the literally awesome images and worlds created in the film. - Castle of Chills
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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The Righteous (2021) |
The Righteous is exciting not only because it’s a painfully tense and thought-provoking film (which it certainly is), but also because it announces an astounding new talent in Mark O’Brien. - Castle of Chills
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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Agnes (2021) |
More than the surprising and sometimes absurd comedy, the discussions and genuine explorations of faith are what make Agnes different. - Castle of Chills
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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Kandisha (2020) |
Fourteen years after Inside, Alexandre Bustillo and Julien Maury might have another classic on their hands. - Castle of Chills
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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Broadcast Signal Intrusion (2021) |
Broadcast Signal Intrusion is an exciting mix of genres and ideas that sucks you into its compelling mystery - Castle of Chills
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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Gaia (2021) |
There are so many ideas about humanity’s relationship to the Earth and God, and the aesthetic world is so engaging, that even if the film sometimes feels like a bit of a mess (which it does), it never feels boring. - Castle of Chills
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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Censor (2021) |
Censor, the feature directorial debut of Prano Bailey-Bond, joins the ranks of Saint Maud, Raw, and The Witch as a horror feature debut that announces a thrilling new voice in the genre. - Castle of Chills
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| Posted Jul 11, 2024
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MaXXXine (2024) |
MaXXXine tries to do too much and ends up doing too little, narratively and thematically, but its great performances make it worth seeking out. - Cultured Vultures
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| Posted Jul 08, 2024
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Kinds of Kindness (2024) |
Kinds of Kindness has great performances from a fantastic cast, and delivers some of Lanthimos’s trademark black comedy, but it often feels as if it's trying too hard to provoke its audience. - Cultured Vultures
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| Posted Jun 25, 2024
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Janet Planet (2023) |
[Zoe] Ziegler is fully capable of carrying the film on her small shoulders. Her often hilariously matter-of-fact line deliveries mark her as a rising comedy actor. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Jun 22, 2024
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In a Violent Nature (2024) |
In A Violent Nature delivers on gore and beautiful scenery, but fails to commit to its own premise. - Cultured Vultures
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| Posted Jun 06, 2024
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Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) |
Furiosa delivers some stunning action set pieces, but they’re bogged down in an overly complicated and poorly paced story that over-explains much of what fans saw in Fury Road. - Cultured Vultures
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| Posted May 24, 2024
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I Saw the TV Glow (2024) |
Jane Schoenbrun delivers on the promise they showed with We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, in a remarkable film that uses pop culture to speak to every viewer as an individual. - Cultured Vultures
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| Posted May 06, 2024
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The Fall Guy (2024) |
The perfect balance of humor, hits, and heart. ... A love letter to stunts and all the people who make them happen ... a romantic comedy with two movie stars ... at their most charming, and an action movie explicitly dedicated to wowing its audience. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted May 02, 2024
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Rebel Moon: Part Two - The Scargiver (2024) |
This space opera sequel doesn’t quite capture the worldbuilding magic of its predecessor. - Chicago Reader
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| Posted Apr 27, 2024
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Pandemonium (2023) |
Looks great throughout ... some shockingly brutal moments ... And it’s clearly got some bones to pick with the whole eternal judgment thing. Mostly though, it’s hard to pin down; whether that sounds like a compliment or a complaint is up to you. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Apr 26, 2024
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Hanky Panky (2023) |
It’s a silly movie that just wants to make its audience smile, and it succeeds. ... These filmmakers are capable of doing things “well” and chose to make something delightfully scrappy. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Apr 18, 2024
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Monkey Man (2024) |
Monkey Man has some flaws, but its explicit political ideology and thrilling fight scenes make it a remarkable feature directorial debut from Dev Patel. - Cultured Vultures
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| Posted Apr 10, 2024
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Off Ramp (2023) |
An equally odd and beautiful movie, and the juggalos wouldn’t have it any other way. It’s upsetting just so that it can be more wholesome. ... All that makes Off Ramp feel like an invitation to join the family, more than just a movie. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Apr 08, 2024
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The People's Joker (2022) |
There’s nothing like The People’s Joker, and there probably never will be, which just makes it all the more necessary; and whether Vera Drew can ever watch it again or not, I’m grateful she’s gifted something so maniacally magical to the world. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Apr 03, 2024
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The Greatest Hits (2024) |
The film’s most resounding joy is the outstanding chemistry between Min and Boynton. Their scenes together are more than the sum of their (considerable) charisma and magnetism, and make The Greatest Hits a great romantic movie. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Apr 02, 2024
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Love Lies Bleeding (2024) |
Love Lies Bleeding is a mix of revenge story, romance, and horror that mostly delivers on all of its genres, often in unique and interesting ways, but becomes more ordinary in its final moments. - Cultured Vultures
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| Posted Mar 15, 2024
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Dune: Part Two (2024) |
Dune: Part Two is a stunning piece of cinema that brings the world of its source material to life, but can’t deliver a story that matches the brilliance of its world. - Cultured Vultures
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| Posted Feb 28, 2024
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Stopmotion (2023) |
At every level, Stopmotion is a formally and narratively thrilling feature debut from one of our greatest living animators. ... A must watch for fans of animation ... it’s also a visually striking and thought-provoking horror movie about creativity. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted Feb 19, 2024
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The Promised Land (2023) |
The Promised Land has promise, but it simultaneously accomplishes too much and too little.
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| Posted Feb 03, 2024
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