6.5
YOU DON’T NOMI Review
You Don’t Nomi is a fascinating, if scattershot, examination of the legacy of SHOWGIRLS.
Posted by: Ken Bakely
6.5
Ken’s 2020 Oscar Predictions
The shortened awards season this year has caused yet more confusion on the always-befuddling road to the Oscars. The chaos of having all of the major guilds and groups vote in such tight, overlapping timeframes has led to much debate on
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Ken’s Top 10 Films of 2019
Continuing with our 2019 list extravaganza, here’s Ken’s top ten movies of 2019. For more thoughts from Ken, be sure to give our year-end podcast a listen here or on your preferred podcast service. To check out everyone’s amazing 2019 lists,
Posted by: Ken Bakely
8.5
THE CIRCUS Criterion Blu-ray Review
The Blu-ray for THE CIRCUS by Criterion is a stellar, detailed release of Charlie Chaplin’s 1928 film.
Posted by: Ken Bakely
4.5
CORPORATE ANIMALS Review
You can see the movie that Corporate Animals wants to be, as there are instances when its wild mixture of satirizing capitalism, horror comedy and peculiar banter create some moments that succeed in being uniquely funny.
Posted by: Ken Bakely
6.5
FUNNY GAMES Criterion Blu-ray Review
The Criterion edition of Funny Games restores, and adds more context to, a still-polarizing film.
Posted by: Ken Bakely
7.5
WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY Review
Wild Nights with Emily poses fascinating questions on how popular understandings in history are formed and often manipulated.
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5.5
YARDIE Review
Inspired direction can’t save Yardie from a formulaic script.
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Ken’s 2019 Oscar Predictions
In my introduction to last year’s Oscar predictions, I refer to the 2017–18 awards season as “one of the most tumultuous” in recent memory, a superlative that would almost seem too weak when discussing the events of this year. Each
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8.5
24 FRAMES Criterion Blu-ray Review
The Criterion edition of 24 Frames is a fittingly superb tribute to a great artist.
Posted by: Ken Bakely
6.5
THE STANDOFF AT SPARROW CREEK Review
The Standoff at Sparrow Creek is formally and aesthetically fascinating, even when its script feels a little incomplete.
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Ken’s Top 10 Films of 2018
Continuing our 2018 wrap-up spectacular is Ken Bakely‘s top 10 films of 2018.
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5.5
THE QUAKE Review
Though the movie is capable, it’s missing the extra push to keep it away from using to the familiar tropes it wants to avoid.
Posted by: Ken Bakely
6.5
FAIL STATE Review
Shebanow’s driving energy is always apparent although sometimes it’s left, frustratingly, just out of reach.
Posted by: Ken Bakely
7.5
FIRST MAN Review
It’s a movie with an unwavering faith in the lessons we can learn from the past, but it shuns inappropriate nostalgia or uncritical revisionism.
Posted by: Ken Bakely
7
SADIE Review
Sadie is, above all, a meditation on life spent without access: to money, to answers, to safe outlets for confusion and anger.
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