Venice Film Festival Review: Pablo Larraín’s ‘El Conde’
“‘El Conde’ is an unhinged satire, more than any of recent memory.”
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“‘El Conde’ is an unhinged satire, more than any of recent memory.”
‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Sammi Cohen’s 2023 Netflix movie.
‘Vacation Friends 2’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Clay Tarver’s 2023 Hulu movie.
“As an indie Giallo, ‘That’s a Wrap’ fails to read the room.”
‘You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Sammi Cohen’s 2023 Netflix movie.
‘Vacation Friends’ 2 Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Clay Tarver’s 2023 Hulu movie.
‘Ahsoka’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Dave Filoni’s Disney+ series.
‘Untold: Jake Paul the Problem Child’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages every song in Andrew Renzi’s 2023 Netflix documentary.
‘Untold: Swamp Kings’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Katharine English’s 2023 Netflix documentary.
“As a pure piece of genre filmmaking, ‘Propriedade’ is highly successful.”
‘Depp V Heard’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Emma Cooper’s 2023 Netflix documentary.
‘Guras’ Interview: Dipankar Sarkar discusses the 2023 movie with filmmaker Saurav Rai.
“‘Joram’ is effectively a new version of ‘The Fugitive’ (and a rather good one at that).”
‘The Pope’s Exorcist’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Julius Avery’s 2023 movie.
‘The Pope’s Exorcist’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Julius Avery’s 2023 movie.
‘Cocaine’ Bear Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Elizabeth Banks’ 2023 movie.
‘Cocaine Bear’ Cast: A Vague Visages guide for every actor and character in Elizabeth Banks’ 2023 movie.
“Eddy’s entertaining flick will presumably be a digital/midnight movie hit, if and when the Butt Gods help streamers find the film online. Godspeed, ‘Bootyology.'”
“‘The Righteous Gemstones’ season 3 stays true to the constants that made me appreciate the show in the first place while adding more characters to love.”
‘Untold: Hall of Shame’ Soundtrack: A Vague Visages guide for every song in Bryan Storkel’s 2023 Netflix documentary.