Review: Detour
One of my biggest fears in life is being buried alive. I wouldn’t consider myself a claustrophobic, but the thought of being confined ...
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Tribeca Review: The Genius of Marian
Intensely personal documentaries sometimes work best when they eschew notions of reportage and simply become confessions or professions of something. The films are ...
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Review: Blancanieves
Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves will inevitably draw comparisons to Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist since both are silent films. (Blancanieves was Spain’s official Oscar entry ...
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Review: To the Wonder
First let me get this out of the way: if you didn’t like Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, steer clear of To ...
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Review: The Croods
Usually when Dreamworks Animation decides to release yet another animated film, I ignore it thinking that I would end up watching more of ...
Review: Olympus Has Fallen
If you were under the impression that Olympus Has Fallen was going to be anything but idiotic then you clearly did not see the ...
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Review: Admission
Paul Rudd and Tina Fey! Well, I can get excited about this movie. Those two usually show up in comedies that are good. ...
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Tribeca Review: Lil Bub & Friendz
There are a few common blackholes for me on the internet. I’ll go into catch-up blackholes where I’ll read all the bookmarked articles ...
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Tribeca Review: The Rocket
The Rocket was one of the films at Tribeca that I’d planned to see much earlier in the festival but unfortunately couldn’t get ...
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Tribeca Review: Reaching for the Moon
It’s interesting to see screen depictions of a writer whose work you’re familiar with but whose personal life is something you know little ...
SXSW Review: Awful Nice
[From March 9th – 17th, Flixist will be providing coverage from South by Southwest 2013 in Austin, TX. Prepare yourselves for reviews, interviews, ...
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Review: These Birds Walk
Many people who hop into documentaries casually expect a certain amount of overt filmmaker guidance — voiceover narration, talking head interviews, infographics, archival ...