Nikola Grozdanovic, Author at The Playlist

Joe Swanberg’s ‘Easy’ Is Two or Three Joe Swanberg Movies Cut Into Eight Semi-Appetizing Pieces [Review]

October 3, 2016 2:20 pm

In the on-going blitz of Netflix Originals we’ve been experiencing so far in 2016, Joe Swanberg’s “Easy” feels like a homing missile that has all the explosive resonance of a beach ball. But that's not necessar...

‘Kate Plays Christine’ Starring Kate Lyn Sheil Is Devastatingly Complex & Remarkable [Review]

Nikola Grozdanovic

August 25, 2016 4:13 pm

Reviews

This is a reprint of our review from the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. It's been well over 40 years since 29-year-old TV reporter Christine Chubbuck walked into her Channel 40 newsroom in Sarasota, Fla., and ...

The 25 Best Boxing Movies Ever

Nikola Grozdanovic and Jessica Kiang

August 24, 2016 3:03 pm

Features

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How many cases of a particular condition must be confirmed before it's officially an epidemic? Because if things keep on going like this, it's possible that there'll be no Hollywood movie released in 2020 that ...

Jayro Bustamante‘s Debut Feature ‘Ixcanul’ Is A Confident, Docu-Like Experience [Review]

Nikola Grozdanovic

August 18, 2016 5:12 pm

Reviews

This is a reprint of our review from the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival Jayro Bustamante‘s debut feature “Ixcanul” generates its power from an intimate observance of the quotidian. As such, its tit...

‘Hell Or High Water’ Is A Coens-Esque Caper With Personality & Zest [Review]

Nikola Grozdanovic

August 11, 2016 6:02 pm

Reviews

Through the eyes of Englishman David Mackenzie, Texas is turned into a smoldering, dust-covered, Coens-esque environment, full of no-shit-taking colorful characters. The director's follow-up to the gritty and u...

‘Men Go To Battle’ Is A Quietly Resonant Cinematic Experience [Review]

Nikola Grozdanovic

July 8, 2016 5:10 pm

Reviews

Zachary Treitz and Kate Lyn Sheil’s “Men Go To Battle” sets its story in the 1860s, treating the Civil War period as a background prop on a miniscule stage, in an intimate and muted story about two brothers. It...

Steven Spielberg’s ‘The BFG’ Is Magical And Imaginative [Review]

Nikola Grozdanovic

June 30, 2016 5:49 pm

Reviews

Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Roald Dahl's beloved children's classic, "The BFG," is a heart-melting, magical ride. The idea of Spielberg adapting Dahl for Walt Disney (remarkably, the first film he's direct...

Interview: ‘The Wailing’ Director Na Hong-jin On Death, Genre, Religion & Comedy

Nikola Grozdanovic

June 27, 2016 5:10 pm

Interviews

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Let’s face it; domestic box-office in the States hasn’t exactly been sizzling at the onset of the summer season. With critically panned studio mega-million productions making most of their big bucks overseas, A...

The 10 Best Jean Renoir Films

Nikola Grozdanovic

June 21, 2016 2:20 pm

Features

The son of French Impressionist Pierre-Auguste, director Jean Renoir’s life-long involvement with creativity might have been a foregone conclusion. But there was no way to envision that he would become one of t...

The 20 Best Fantasy Films Of The 21st Century So Far

Nikola Grozdanovic and Russ Fischer

June 9, 2016 1:19 pm

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Aside from the brief craze in the 1980s when “Krull” and “Conan” and the like roamed theaters, fantasy had never been a particularly popular genre for filmmakers to tackle —principally because it was too expens...

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