Steve Erickson

Film Review: “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die” — A Satire Too Stuck in the Now to Save the Future

February 9, 2026
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The film urges the audience to take action against AI, but it is too symptomatic of today’s paralysis to be of as much help as it would like to be.

Film Review: “No Other Choice” — Park Chan-wook’s Bleakly Comic Portrait of Capitalist Despair

January 1, 2026
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“No Other Choice”’s South Korea looks as if it is steadily transforming into a home more fit for robots — manning the sawmills of capitalism — than humans.

Film Review: “Marty Supreme” — A Thrilling, Empty Trip Through Ego and Excess

December 24, 2025
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It can’t be denied that “Marty Supreme” is effective as a wild trip. It’s an immersive experience — not an analysis of its self-adoring anti-hero.

Film Review: “Reflection in a Dead Diamond” — James Bond Manqué

December 6, 2025
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It’s a bad sign that such an entertaining and visually stunning film, shot in CinemaScope, couldn’t play in theaters in this country.

Film Review: Radu Jude’s “Dracula” — Suck it to Us

November 10, 2025
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Like other Eastern European artists, Radu Jude is at his best channeling his anger through dark comedy.

Film Review: Kelly Reichardt’s “The Mastermind” Turns Art Theft into Existential Drift

October 22, 2025
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“The Mastermind” points to the impossibility of trying to live as though the outside world and its politics don’t exist.

Film Festival Reviews: New York Film Festival’s 2025 “Revivals”

October 2, 2025
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Because NYFF’s “Revivals” supplement showcases new restorations, the expectation is that these movies, including art films from around the world, should become more widely available down the road.

Film Review: “Plainclothes” and the Surveillance of Desire

September 24, 2025
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Despite its abrasive style, “Plainclothes” leaves no doubt about what is going to happen or what is meant to be its takeaway message.

Film Series Review: “Scary Movies XII” — What Frightens Us Now?

August 14, 2025
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Grief and generational trauma have become the horror movie villains of our time, taking the spot once occupied by masked killers.

Film Review: “Cloud” — Death by Capitalism

July 25, 2025
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s return to form might be explained by his looking backward: the director has chosen to grapple with the fact that many of the pessimistic prophecies of his earlier films have come true.

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