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Category Archives: Pithy Reviews

Is A Cure for Wellness as Subversively Insane as Verbinksi’s The Lone Ranger?

November 14, 2017by Evil Genius 3 Comments

You all wrote off The Lone Ranger as big-budget Hollywood tripe but you were excessively incorrect. Are you equally mistaken to dismiss Verbinski’s latest, A Cure for Wellness?

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Ragnarok, Shmagnarok. Thor Is A Bore.

November 10, 2017by Supreme Being 1 Comment

A pleasant half-hour of light gags interspersed with 100 minutes of grueling, plotless CGI boredom does not a movie make.

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Lucky In Life, Lucky In Death

October 4, 2017by Supreme Being Leave a comment

Harry Dean Stanton is Lucky.

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The Bad Batch Might Eat Your Leg

September 28, 2017by Evil Genius Leave a comment

Imagine if you took Mad Max and mixed it with mumblecore and maybe a dash of Hal Hartley. Just, you know, with cannibals and psychedelics and fear of the other.

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Remakes Are for White Supremacists

September 6, 2017by Evil Genius Leave a comment

You know what film I knew was going to be terrible within the first three minutes?

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Logan Lucky: Soderbergh’s Best Coen Brothers’ Comedy

August 30, 2017by Evil Genius 1 Comment

Logan Lucky frames itself as a paean to the people of the Mid-Atlantic and their underrated pluck. ‘Take me home, country roads,’ it croons, but I was not tempted. 

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The Good & Bad News About Atomic Blonde

August 8, 2017by Evil Genius 3 Comments

Atomic Blonde lands a welter of punches and leaves you reeling — which is great, because once you stop spinning you’re sure to say, “hang on a minute…”

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Lady Snowblood Will Have Blood Coming Out of Your Wherever

August 4, 2017by Evil Genius Leave a comment

It is a film about the tragic cycle of revenge and how fun it is to watch that played out in vivid color.

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10 Simon & Garfunkel Songs That Would Make for a Better Film than Baby Driver

June 30, 2017by Evil Genius 4 Comments

Hey look! It’s a goddamned lemur. Far out.

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Why Wonder Woman Works

June 5, 2017by Evil Genius 3 Comments

Wonder Woman proves that female directors and female leads and female characters can do everything the boys can do, and better.

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Active Observation, Pithy Reviews

Jackie, But Just a Glimpse

April 17, 2017by Evil Genius Leave a comment

Forget Zapruder and the rest; here is the real mystery of one of last century’s apex political events.

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A Few Words On Kong, Teenage Grief, 10 Million Hits of LSD, The Plight of The American Indian, Hot Dice, and William Shatner

March 20, 2017by Supreme Being Leave a comment

The latest report from the Recently Watched files.

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Kong: Skull-Thumping Island

March 9, 2017by Evil Genius Leave a comment

I love the smell of gorilla farts in the morning.

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Brief Thoughts on Three Well-Received Films

March 6, 2017by Evil Genius Leave a comment

Some things to say about Manchester By the Sea, American Honey, and Hidden Figures.

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