2023 OSCAR DOCUMENTARY SHORTS
Surprisingly, these weren’t soul crushing as with most years.
Read MoreWOMEN TALKING (2022)
“Being a worthy story does not a good movie make”
Read MoreMRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS (2022)
“1950s period piece about haute couture clothing is a film TAILOR MADE for a costuming Oscar nod”
Read MoreLIVING (2022)
“Just watch Ikiru”
Read MoreTHE WHALE (2022)
“extremely emotionally manipulative but without completely sacrificing its worthiness”
Read MoreANT-MAN AND THE WASP: QUANTUMANIA (2023)
“a vast vacuous CGI plain of mediocrity, quickly losing any of the drive, excitement or sheer fun that you expected”
Read MoreTO LESLIE (2022)
“She is master of the screen and drug me into the dusty distance”
Read MoreCAUSEWAY (2022)
“a solid workmanlike tight 90”
Read More5G: THE RECKONING (2023)
“It’s empty scaffolding propping up a digital rotted foundation”
Read MoreINFINITY POOL (2023)
“left adrift in its empty playground of trivial violence and vacant reflection”
Read MoreKNOCK AT THE CABIN (2023)
“a film that, beyond the short story premise of intrigue and stakes, falls genuinely flat”
Read MoreTHE DEVIL CONSPIRACY (2023)
“Once implanted with Lil’ Jesus, the woman is taken by a goblin/troll/demon/rock man to a cage and lowered to the upper ring of hell (?) to have a smoke worm of Satan wriggle into her. I have no idea…”
Read MorePREY FOR THE DEVIL (2022)
“not much pops story, effects, or franchise wise”
Read MoreTHE MENU (2022)
“Their (acting) chops let the flavor of the cinematic meal broil.”
Read MoreBONES AND ALL (2022)
“Chalemet is at his twinKing finest”
Read MoreTHE FABELMANS (2022)
“maudlin and measured.”
Read MoreTRIANGLE OF SADNESS (2022)
“I just hoped for more outright levity than the blood from a stone histrionic humor we pick out of the vomit and sandy crumbs”
Read MoreALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (2022)
“breathes a dying vigor into the celluloid whisper of a conflict long past”
Read MorePUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH (2022)
“Surprisingly delightful oasis for parents in a sea of drudgery and inequities.”
Read MoreM3GAN (2022)
“a devilish little horror escapade with some capitalistic & mechanical creep”
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