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THIS YOUNG MONSTER
Credit: Disney Wilde Davis The essential history of film criticism is that most of it has been rather dull. Decades of boring little white men in their boring little offices writing boring little...
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MARIE ANTOINETTE
Credit: Sony Pictures Releasing Kirsty Asher Costume design for film is by turns a beguiling, frustrating and even banal form of creativity. It is the convergence of style and storytelling, yet it is...
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MADE IN U.S.A
Credit: Cinématographique de France Esmé Holden As Jean-Luc Godard moved from one medium to another, from prose to filmmaking, he remained a critic. He brought a linear, argumentative style to his...
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LEAVING THE MOVIE THEATER
Credit: CG Cinéma Natasha Fedorson There is something to confess: your speaker likes to leave a movie theater. Back out on the more or less empty, more or less brightly lit sidewalk (it is invariably...
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THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING
Credit: Focus Features Orla Smith My first Letterboxd diary entry was created on January 2nd, 2015. It was for The Theory of Everything (2014). I definitely wrote a review of it then, but I don’t know...
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EO
Credit: BFI The Emerging Critics Workshop: A Donkey’s Work Fedor Tot Film festivals don’t exist if nobody talks about them. The power that the Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Sundance and Toronto film...
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THE HUMAN SURGE 3
Credit: Rediance Joseph Owen Notes from Locarno, 2023 Another confession. When I first attended the Locarno Film Festival in 2017, I wrote 33 articles in ten days. During the festival, I reviewed 23...
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A STAR IS BURNS
Blaise Radley Over the course of its (remarkably still ongoing) 34-season run, Matt Groening has only asked that his name be scrubbed from the credits of The Simpsons on one occasion. Let that sink in...
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VOLUME 15: THE CRITIC
Credit: HBO The uneasy status of Film Criticism is readily discussed. In brief: this profession, which few have ever made a living from, offers decreasing opportunities for remuneration. This...
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