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‘Four Hours At The Capitol’ Is A Harrowing Historical Document About The January 6th Insurrection [Review]

October 19, 2021 1:08 pm

A harrowing, if not exactly unexpected, image emerges near the end of Jamie Roberts’ documentary “Four Hours at the Capitol.” Egged on by Trump’s Big Lie, a Capitol Police Officer trying to push back the ever-...

‘Pharma Bro’ Is More Interested in Getting Close To Martin Shkreli Than Exploring The Society That Made Him [Review]

Christian Gallichio

October 7, 2021 11:10 am

News, Reviews

The thought of a deep-dive into the mind of Martin Shkreli—whose adoption of the now (in)famous moniker “Pharma Bro” lends director Brent Hodge his title—is a tough ask for anyone, let alone for a film that wo...

‘Karen Dalton: In My Own Time’ Is A Profound Work Of Archival Recovery [Review]

Christian Gallichio

October 2, 2021 2:04 pm

News, Reviews

Grappling with questions about "folk authenticity" and the relationship between artistry and commercial success, Richard Peete and Robert Yapkowitz’s excellent new documentary, “Karen Dalton: In My Own Time,” ...

‘Lady Of The Manor’ With Melanie Lynskey & Judy Greer Is A Wayward Haunted Comedy [Review]

Christian Gallichio

September 15, 2021 2:27 pm

News, Reviews

Awkwardly bridging the gap between “My Fair Lady” retelling and an episode of “Southern Charm,” Justin and Christian Long’s directorial debut, “Lady of the Manor,” is both a southern-friend romantic comedy and...

‘Madeleine Collins’ Starring Virginie Efira Is A Knotty Exploration of A Dual Life [Venice Review]

Christian Gallichio

September 4, 2021 3:06 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

Beginning with a dizzying one-shot that follows Judith - or is it Margot? - around a high-end clothing store before a fainting spell upends her shopping trip, Antoine Barraud’s “Madeleine Collins” is a laser-f...

‘Fauci’ Is A Compelling Exploration Of The Influential Pandemic-Era Doctor [Telluride Review]

Christian Gallichio

September 3, 2021 1:01 pm

Festivals, News, Reviews

As its short declarative title implies, Janet Tobias and John Hoffman’s documentary “Fauci” is single-minded in its pursuit of exploring and humanizing the now (in)famous director of the National Institutes of...

‘Zone 414’ Is A Lifeless ‘Blade-Runner’ Clone That Wastes Guy Pierce & Matilda Lutz [Review]

Christian Gallichio

August 31, 2021 2:53 pm

News, Reviews

Featuring a sedate Guy Pearce, Andrew Baird’s directorial debut “Blade-Runner” -lite “Zone 414” wastes a compelling premise on an overly-long neo-noir that teases a post-technocratic society in which androids ...

‘He’s All That’ Has No Idea What It Wants to Say About Influencers, Despite Starring TikTok Star Addison Rae [Review]

Christian Gallichio

August 27, 2021 10:41 am

News, Reviews

Adopting, and gender-flipping, the '90s teen comedy “She’s All That” for the TikTok generation, Mark Waters' Netflix film, “He’s All That,” starring a nascent Addison Rae and Tanner Buchanan, isn’t the unmitig...

‘Together’: Stephen Daldry’s Lockdown Relationship Drama Is Darkly Comedic & Riveting [Review]

Christian Gallichio

August 23, 2021 12:40 pm

News, Reviews

One of the more fully formed portraits of life during lockdown, Stephen Daldry and Dennis Kelly’s rapid-fire, fourth-wall-breaking, two-hander “Together” trades the overt sentimentalism of Daldry’s previous fi...

‘America: The Motion Picture’: An Occasionally Funny, But Mostly Forgettable Animated Bro-Fest About Our Founding Fathers [Review]

Christian Gallichio

July 6, 2021 3:57 pm

News, Reviews

Reimagining the founding of America as a bro-fest that takes every historic moment from the last 250 or so years and crams them together, forgoing any sense of temporal progression or reason, Matt Thompson’s a...

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