Reality: In Which Quentin Dupieux Makes Another Quentin Dupieux Movie
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Category Archives: Pithy Reviews
Finding Tatanka: A Filmmaker Searches For His Father
A new documentary by friend of Mind Control, Jacob Bricca.
The Third Man in Theaters Again, Just Like You
It’s The Third Man. Go see it in the theaters. I guarantee that it will be more satisfying than Jurassic World, Ted 2, or Terminator Genysis.
Wrong Cops: Wrong, If Not As Wrong As Wrong
Quentin Dupieux’s most normal movie?
Dope: Risky Business in South Central
If Princeton needs men like Joel, then Harvard needs men like Malcolm, Hollywood needs men like Famuyiwa, and America needs to kick itself into shape, take a long look in the mirror, and demand an answer to the question: ‘what the fuck?’
The Wolfpack: True Tales of Total Fantasy
In The Wolfpack, we open the wrong door in the wrong housing project and end up in a bizarro sideshow.
Odd Man Out Lives Up to Its Name
There is no question that Carol Reed’s 1947 Belfast noir Odd Man Out is an odd, intriguing film, and it’s one Roman Polanski has deemed his all-time favorite.
Live From New York!, It’s (A Documentary About) Saturday Night (Live)!
In which the institution of SNL is further institutionalized in rather fawning fashion.
The SpongeBob Movie: Fish Out of Water Is Drugs for Kids
A sugary, manic reality ruled by nothing whatsoever save whim and high-octane corn syrup. Is that good? Bad? Maybe we should let the twins from The Shining weigh in?
Donnie Brasco? You Must Be Joking
A movie that demands to be moved straight to the top of your Movies Not To Watch list.
The Connection: Straight, No Chaser
The Connection takes the true story that inspired The French Connection and plays it out to its bitter end in Marseilles.
Kung Fury: The Best Dollar You Didn’t Spend
Kung Fury is, in the end, something. And it is something you can watch in just half an hour. Might as well get it over with.
Sleepless Night Slams You Against the Tarmac
If you’d like a compact pill of tension: Sleepless Night.
Dark Star: H.R. Giger’s World, In Which The Alien Artist Is Examined
A pleasant late-in-life stroll with artist H.G. Giger.