Struggling to Portray Evil: ‘Narcos’ Episodes 1.6-1.10
“Narcos resorts to cheap tactics to depict just how ‘bad’ these characters are.”
“Narcos resorts to cheap tactics to depict just how ‘bad’ these characters are.”
“As impressive and excruciating as Hall and his team’s journey was, Everest fails to capture the specifics.”
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A Weekly Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith
“Someone pull Don Draper off his office couch, it’s time to meet the Mets.”
“The Buñuelian meets the Duplassian in The Overnight, a chamber comedy of social and sexual manners from director Patrick Brice (2014’s Creep).”
“Netflix’s new series Narcos begins with a quote regarding the birth of magical realism, and its point of emphasis reveals quite a bit about the series it precedes.”
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A Weekly Column on Love and Erotica in Cinema by Justine A. Smith
“Little more than an extravagant, blood-soaked and alcohol-fueled story, Legend fulfills its title; an overinflated piece of bar room folklore better told over a cold pint of Guinness (or several)”
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“Headland’s screenplay fires a couple of blanks, which serves to only highlight some of the more token traditional rom-com tropes still on offer here. That said, when Sleeping with Other People does hit — which is a lot of the time — it’s an invigorating spicing up of formula; a winning balance of hedonism and heart that’s unapologetic about either quality.”
Jaime Grijalba on Santiago Festival Internacional de Cine
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Dylan Moses Griffin on Small Ball Strategies
A Weekly Column by Dylan Moses Griffin
“While framed as a film about learning some great lesson about life and happiness, 7 Chinese Brothers never really builds from this assumed groundwork.”
“An intimate character study of a shifting, indefinable character, Queen of Earth pushes the already exceptionally talented Elisabeth Moss to new levels of intense frenzy and naked emotion.”
“If The Wrath of the Lamb doesn’t quite work as a series finale, it’s only because it wasn’t really supposed to be one.”
A Series by Dylan Moses Griffin