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Nicole Veneto

Film Review: “Infinity Pool” — Body Double

There’s still room for Brandon Cronenberg to grow as a horror director, but Infinity Pool should make his father proud. It’s a sensory nightmare of bodily dissociation and high class decadence that signals a promising start to 2023.

By: Nicole Veneto Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Alexander Skarsgård, Brandon Cronenberg, Infinity Pool, Nicole Veneto

Film Review: “M3GAN” — Child’s Slay

M3GAN is a movie algorithmically generated to spawn as many memes about itself as possible before undiscerning viewers realize what they’re watching is a reworked Black Mirror draft.

By: Nicole Veneto Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: M3GAN, Nicole Veneto

Arts Feature: Best Movies (With Some Disappointments) of 2022

Our demanding critics choose the best films (along with some disappointments) of the year. And there is plenty of disagreement.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Commentary, Featured, Film Tagged: Ed Symkus, Gerald Peary, Nicole Veneto, Peg Aloi, Steve Erickson, Tim Jackson

Film Review: “Please Baby Please” — Gay Awakening

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.

By: Nicole Veneto Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Andrea Riseborough, Nicole Veneto, Please Baby Please

Film Review: “Pearl” — A Star is Born

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

By: Nicole Veneto Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Mia Goth, Nicole Veneto, Pearl, Ti west

Film Review: “Babysitter” — The Teaches of Peaches

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

By: Nicole Veneto Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Babysitter, misogyny, Monia Chokri, Nadia Tereszkiewicz, Nicole Veneto

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

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.

By: Nicole Veneto Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: A24, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Halina Reijn, Nicole Veneto, Sarah DeLappe

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

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

By: Nicole Veneto Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Jordan Peele, Nicole Veneto, Nope

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

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.

By: Nicole Veneto Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Anita Rocha Da Silveira, Medusa, Nicole Veneto, right-wing Christian conservatism

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

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.

By: Nicole Veneto Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: COVID, East Asian Horror, Nicole Veneto, Pandemic!, Rob Jabbaz, Shudder, The Sadness, Zombies

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