Trace Sauveur

‘Friendship’ Review: Tim Robinson Goes Off the Rails in this Hilarious, Bizarre Platonic Breakup Comedy [B+] | SXSW

It’s all too easy to say that Friendship, the debut film from writer-director Andrew DeYoung starring Tim Robinson, plays like… Read More

March 12, 2025

‘40 Acres’ Review: A Familiar Post-Apocalypse Setting Gives Way to Socio-Political Critique and Cannibal Horror [B+] | SXSW

You’d be pretty hard-pressed to find a post-apocalyptic film that doesn’t feel cobbled together from a storied history of derivative… Read More

March 11, 2025

‘The Baltimorons’ Review: Jay Duplass Returns with an Endearing, Bittersweet Christmas Eve Romance [B] | SXSW

The Baltimorons is Jay Duplass’ first original feature film in 14 years. One half of the American independent cinema duo… Read More

March 10, 2025

Interview: Todd Solondz on the 4K Restoration of ‘Palindromes,’ the State of Independent Filmmaking, and his Approach to Comedy

Todd Solondz has long embraced his persona as a cinematic agitator and provocateur. He seems to follow a pattern: as… Read More

March 5, 2025

‘The Monkey’ Review: Osgood Perkins’ Midnight Movie Bloodbath is Caught Between Gruesome Irony and Flat Melodrama [C]

Death looms like a specter in nearly all of Osgood Perkins’ films. Consider the chilly threat of the beyond in… Read More

February 14, 2025

‘Captain America: Brave New World’ Review: Marvel Continues to Self-Perpetuate Their Own Impending Irrelevance [D+]

It’s an accepted fact that at this point in the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s lifecycle, keeping up with the extended lore… Read More

February 12, 2025

‘Sonic the Hedgehog 3’ Review: Threequel Outshines Its Predecessors by Introducing a Shadow [B]

It’s funny what a series of competent, agreeable family movies have done for the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. Following a… Read More

December 18, 2024

‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ Review: If Lion Cubs Could Talk [D]

On December 5, 2024, film critic Matt Zoller Seitz published a profile feature for Vulture entitled “Moonlight in the Lion’s… Read More

December 17, 2024

‘A Complete Unknown’ Review: Chalamet is Great, but Film Succumbs to Familiar Biopic Pitfalls of a Life Collapsed into Montage [C+]

It’s hard to ask for a more routinely workmanlike filmmaker than James Mangold. Whether working in the realm of mental… Read More

December 10, 2024

The Parrot Isn’t Saying Anything: How the 2024 U.S. Election Has Proven ‘Under the Silver Lake’ to be Right All Along

Election fraud. A migrant crime wave. Immigrants eating pets. FEMA exploiting hurricane survivors. The Democrats controlling the weather. These are… Read More

November 12, 2024

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