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New York Film Festival: Anora (2024) Review
The return of Sean Baker is not to be taken lightly. After thrilling us with 2021’s Red Rocket , this newest offering continues to build...
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Sep 25, 20243 min read
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New York Film Festival: Exclusive Interview with Director Nicolás Pereda
Nicolás Pereda’s latest offering, Lázaro at Night , deals with three actors in a love triangle struggling with the line between their...
michaelzendejas72
Sep 23, 20247 min read
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New York Film Festival: Happyend (2024) Review
For millions of people, the end of high school represents a kind of apocalypse where the frivolities of childhood are replaced with...
michaelzendejas72
Sep 21, 20244 min read
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New York Film Festival: The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2024) Review
Mohammad Rasoulof made a big splash at Cannes with this latest offering, having to sneak out of Iran and travel by road for almost a...
michaelzendejas72
Sep 20, 20245 min read
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New York Film Festival: The Brutalist (2024) Review
Don’t let the most recent wave of hype fool you: Brady Corbet’s newest epic historical drama is what Mao would call a paper tiger. It may...
michaelzendejas72
Sep 19, 20244 min read
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My Old Ass (2024) Review
One of the hardest parts about aging is thinking of everything you could have done, everything you should have done. But chasing the...
michaelzendejas72
Sep 8, 20243 min read
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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) Review
After more than three and a half decades, Tim Burton has finally provided audiences with a follow-up to his iconic 1988 comedy-horror....
michaelzendejas72
Sep 6, 20243 min read
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Top 10 Sports Films
The Olympics has come and gone, but it did leave me thinking about my favorite sports movies. This list is obviously not exhaustive, nor...
michaelzendejas72
Aug 17, 20243 min read
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Alien: Romulus (2024) Review
When I first heard about another addition to the Alien franchise, I was skeptical to say the least. We live in the era of reboots and...
michaelzendejas72
Aug 14, 20244 min read
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Maxxxine (2024) Review
From the grindhouse style of X (2022) to the technicolor nightmare that was Pearl (2022), it’s clear Ti West’s X trilogy has been a fun,...
michaelzendejas72
Jul 5, 20243 min read
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Kinds of Kindness (2024) Review
Less than half a year after winning four Oscars for Poor Things (a movie that I hated), Yorgos Lanthimos and Emma Stone are back. This...
michaelzendejas72
Jun 29, 20243 min read
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Fancy Dance (2024) Review
Erica Tremblay’s feature directorial debut is one of those incredible movies that manages to walk the line of several genres, switching...
michaelzendejas72
Jun 21, 20243 min read
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Top 10 Movies of 2024 (So Far)
With new Coppola, Eggers and more on the horizon, it can be easy to forget about all the great movies we’ve gotten this year, which is...
michaelzendejas72
Jun 1, 20243 min read
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I Saw the TV Glow (2024) Review
Jane Schoenbrun’s latest psychological horror-drama is one of those movies that’s impossible to describe. ‘Two friends deal with the...
michaelzendejas72
May 10, 20243 min read
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The Idea of You (2024) Review
I love romantic comedies; there’s room in my heart for art house masterpieces and popularly entertaining explorations of human...
michaelzendejas72
Apr 19, 20242 min read
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Chicken for Linda (2024) Review
Screening at Cannes last year before making its way to French theaters, Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach’s charmingly animated love...
michaelzendejas72
Apr 11, 20242 min read
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Monkey Man (2024) Review
I don’t know if this counts as a hot take, but action films have a bad rap. While it may be easy to dismiss the entire genre as shallow...
michaelzendejas72
Apr 5, 20244 min read
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Oscars Nonsense
Twenty-three years ago, Hayao Miyazaki won an Academy Award for Spirited Away (2001) but didn’t attend the ceremony in protest against...
michaelzendejas72
Mar 11, 20243 min read
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Dune 2 Review (Spoilers)
Denis Villeneuve’s gargantuan follow-up to his 2021 adaptation of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi epic has gotten widespread acclaim, and for good...
michaelzendejas72
Feb 27, 20244 min read
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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH TRAN ANH HUNG
My favorite movie of 2023 finally hits theaters this weekend! Telling the story of two chefs falling in love after decades spent working...
michaelzendejas72
Feb 13, 20244 min read
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