Nicole Veneto

Film Review: “Bones and All” – “I’ll Eat You Whole, I Love You So”

November 30, 2022
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With Bones and All, Luca Guadagnino solidifies his place as a filmmaking maverick able to bend genre conventions in ways that express his own painfully beautiful artistic vision.

Film Review: “Please Baby Please” — Gay Awakening

November 1, 2022
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Amanda Kramer’s created a thoroughly campy and celebratory ode to queerness that stands as both a timely political statement and a genuinely well-crafted piece of independent filmmaking.

Film Review: “Pearl” — A Star is Born

September 26, 2022
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Move over Patrick Bateman, there’s a new axe-wielding psychopath for impressionable young cinephiles to project themselves onto in town.

Film Review: “Babysitter” — The Teaches of Peaches

September 7, 2022
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Babysitter tackles the ambiguities of misogyny head-on in a 35 mm sugar rush of magical suburban realism.

Film Review: “Bodies Bodies Bodies” — Seven Little Influencers

August 15, 2022
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This horror comedy traps a cadre of privileged, narcissistic Zennials in a whodunit murder mystery and lets their internet-addled delusions of grandeur tear them apart in the paranoid fallout.

Film Review: “Nope” – Behold, the Great American Spectacle

August 2, 2022
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Nope, Jordan Peele’s highly anticipated third feature, is an awe-inspiring marvel about our own unrelenting obsession with spectacle.

Film Review: “Medusa” — “She’s Beautiful and She’s Screaming”

July 25, 2022
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Brazilian director Anita Rocha Da Silveira’s latest film is a genre-spliced howl of feminine fury in the face of right-wing Christian conservatism.

Film Review: “The Sadness” — They’re Coming to Get You, Karen

June 30, 2022
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The Sadness is an especially brutal film about societal collapse and how public health crises like COVID-19 amplify whatever savage impulses lie dormant within us.

Film Review: Two “Gialli” Gems from 1972 — “All the Colors of the Dark” and “The Case of the Bloody Iris”

June 19, 2022
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All the Colors of the Dark and The Case of the Bloody Iris are underrated giallo gems worth seeking out, representing not only the best of the genre, but sex symbol Edwige Fenech’s onscreen magnetism at its strongest.

Film Review: “Dark Glasses” – A Faded Vision

June 19, 2022
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Rather than a triumphant return to form from one of horror’s greatest visionaries, Dark Glasses plays like a faded Xerox copy of director Dario Argento’s past hits.

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