Sundance Review: ‘John and the Hole’ is emptier than it first appears
At first glance, the concept for Pascual Sisto’s debut feature John and the Hole is delightfully devious: a young 13-year-old boy named John (Charlie Shotwell)... Read More
Clint Worthington
Clint Worthington is a Senior Writer for Consequence of Sound and the founder and editor-in-chief of The Spool. He also co-hosts and produces the podcasts More of a Comment, Really... and Hall of Faces for The Spool, as well as Travolta/Cage with Nathan Rabin. He lives in Chicago with his wife, his cat, and too many Criterions.
Sundance Review: Hand-drawn fantasy adventure ‘Cryptozoo’ soaks you in psychedelia
The best way I can think to describe My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea cartoonist Dash Shaw’s Cryptozoo, the product of years of... Read More
Interview: Sean Durkin on how ‘The Nest’ helped him exorcise childhood demons
It’s 1986, and Rory O’Hara (Jude Law) is about to export the American Dream to his home country of London in Sean Durkin’s The Nest,... Read More
NYFF Review: Jia Zhangke takes an unfocused look at Chinese history and literature with ‘Swimming Out Till the Sea Turns Blue’
Jia Zhangke’s firmly established himself as one of China’s most exciting, innovative filmmakers, whether it’s in fiction (as 2018’s meditative Ash is Purest White can... Read More
NYFF Review: A humble pig gets her time in the spotlight in gripping nature doc ‘Gunda’
Victor Kossokofsky loves to prod at the boundaries of what he can do with documentary cinema — 2018’s Aquarela, for instance, asked its audience to... Read More
NYFF Review: ‘MLK/FBI’ charts the complexities of a great man and the government agency that worked tirelessly to take him down
“When you construct someone as a great man, there’s almost nothing more satisfying than revealing the opposite.” This sentence, uttered early by historian Beverly Gage... Read More
NYFF Review: ‘Malmkrog’ is a gorgeous, stately slog through frippery and philosophy
It’s Christmas Eve in the late nineteenth century, and snow coats the grounds of the eponymous Transylvanian manor at the center of Christi Puiu’s three-and-a-half-hour... Read More
Film Review: ‘The Hunt’ aims for Trumpian satire but misses its target
Sensationalism is a powerful marketing tool: just ask ‘50s huckster William Castle, who marketed B-horror films on the promise of spine-tingling realism with The Tingler... Read More
Sundance Review: Lee Isaac Chung’s ‘Minari’ is a poetic and heartfelt masterwork
One of the joys of minari, mischievous grandmother Soonja (Yuh-Jung Youn) tells her equally impish 7-year-old grandson David (Alan Kim), is that the Korean herb... Read More
Sundance Review: ‘The Last Shift’ is a contrived, entry level effort
This may be my first year actually attending the Sundance Film Festival, but I know the hallmarks of the “Sundance film” when I see one.... Read More
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