Review: Junun
How do you review a home movie with a great soundtrack? In a lot of ways that’s precisely what Paul Thomas Anderson’s Junun ...
Tag: New York Film Festival
The 2015 New York Film Festival kicks off this weekend
The 53rd New York Film Festival gets underway this weekend, and Flixist is going to be there checking out many of the notable ...
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Review: Experimenter
If you’ve taken an Intro to Psychology class, you’ve heard about Stanley Milgram. His most famous experiments involved obedience and how normal people ...
Review: Where to Invade Next
Michael Moore and Donald Trump have something in common. No, seriously. They want to make America great again. In Where to Invade Next, ...
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Review: The Lobster
I still haven’t gotten around to seeing Yorgos Lanthimos’ Dogtooth, though I intend to. The blackly surreal 2009 film was nominated for a Best ...
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Review: Bridge of Spies
Watching Bridge of Spies, I realized almost immediately the difference between a beautiful film and a handsome film. Steven Spielberg’s latest movie is ...
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NYFF Review: Microbe & Gasoline
When Michel Gondry writes his own films, I’ve noticed that his protagonists have a tendency to act like quirky, whimsical teenagers. The misfit ...
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Review: The Forbidden Room
Guy Maddin’s The Forbidden Room has been described as a series of nested movies, but I don’t think that description is accurate. “Nested” ...
Review: Steve Jobs
I was texting a friend about Steve Jobs over the weekend, the new biopic written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Danny Boyle. ...
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Review: The Walk
It’s impossible to watch The Walk without thinking about James Marsh’s 2008 film Man on Wire. The Academy Award-winning documentary chronicled French tightrope ...