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Adam Cook

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Parasite (2019) 99% EDIT “Twists and turns aside, this surprise comes more from Parasite's very make-up: the formal strategies, tonal malleability, and sheer density of the film's intricate construction.” – Cinema Scope Jul 12, 2019 Full Review Infinite Football (2018) 96% EDIT “Infinite Football is the best testament yet to Porumboiu's genius, as he moulds seemingly artless parts into an unexpectedly profound whole.” – Cinema Scope Jan 25, 2019 Full Review Isle of Dogs (2018) 90% EDIT “Leave it to Wes Anderson to find his own eccentric way to pay loving tribute in a fantastical, funny and moving stop-motion animated adventure.” – MUBI Feb 26, 2018 Full Review Unsane (2018) 80% EDIT “Unsane is funny and wholly disconcerting, not alternately but in tandem, a tension of clashing moods that exaggerate the paranoia and surreality of the plot.” – MUBI Feb 26, 2018 Full Review The Cabin in the Woods (2011) 92% EDIT “Whedon's humanism and his reverence for horror movies have made for a winning cocktail in television, and now, cinema.” – MUBI Feb 1, 2018 Full Review Romancing in Thin Air (2012) EDIT “Characters are superseded by the images they project on one another. To shows us a world ruled by sentimental idealism of the movies in and provides an ending according to their rules, but one where the characters remain trapped in fictional romance.” – MUBI Jan 9, 2018 Full Review Bernie (2011) 88% EDIT “While Carthage's citizens may not have gotten the final word on Bernie's fate, Linklater provides them with a consolation: the gift of shaping this film.” – Cinema Scope Oct 17, 2017 Full Review Mary Queen of Scots (2013) EDIT “The film fails to come together as anything beyond rudimentary, and that failure is distinctly directorial.” – Cinema Scope Oct 17, 2017 Full Review The Wolf of Wall Street (2013) 79% EDIT “While Scorsese's latest resembles After Hours in its absurdist tone and progressively exhausting succession of wild occurrences, it's GoodFellas that is clearly Wolf's closest cousin in the director's oeuvre.” – Cinema Scope Oct 17, 2017 Full Review The Treasure (2015) 95% EDIT “[Treasure] is an inadvertent journey back into Romania's history, a search for the nameless treasure buried beneath decades of disappointment, dictatorship, and war.” – Cinema Scope Oct 17, 2017 Full Review Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015) 28% EDIT “Every Thing Will Be Fine is downright strange. Some of the visual choices really feel like conscious decisions to do something interesting with the format, but the strain is palpable and the subject matter is handled embarrassingly.” – Cinema Scope Oct 17, 2017 Full Review No Home Movie (2015) 90% EDIT “Akerman may have been left with questions about existence that she herself couldn't answer, but she asked them beautifully, often painfully, and we are privileged to be able to continue searching along with her timeless, powerful images.” – Brooklyn Magazine Dec 13, 2016 Full Review Sunset Song (2015) 81% EDIT “From its opening image, a beautiful sweeping shot over a golden field that arrives at the protagonist, the beautiful and modest Chris (Agyness Deyn), one feels the urgency and conviction that lies behind it.” – Brooklyn Magazine Aug 12, 2016 Full Review How Heavy This Hammer (2015) 83% EDIT “How Heavy This Hammer seems to be driven sincerely by human compassion and curiosity, and firmly establishes Radwanski as one of Canada's best working filmmakers.” – Brooklyn Magazine Aug 11, 2016 Full Review The Big Short (2015) 89% EDIT “Dramatically, it's a bit stilted and awkward, with uneven storytelling and a lack of real character development-but the film's performances, momentous editing, and prevailing attitude of sheer anger and frustration overshadow its lesser parts.” – Brooklyn Magazine Jul 8, 2016 Full Review Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015) 96% 3/5 EDIT “It's hard not to be infectiously drawn in by the passion on display here.” – Little White Lies Mar 2, 2016 Full Review Joy (2015) 61% 4/5 EDIT “Joy is a film about life's defiance of expectations. It defies them right back.” – Little White Lies Dec 29, 2015 Full Review Gangs of Wasseypur (2012) 94% EDIT “This epic crime saga sprawls across seven decades and three generations of characters -- like all three parts of The Godfather rolled into one, with an injection of boisterous Bollywood flavour.” – Georgia Straight Jul 17, 2015 Full Review Carol (2015) 94% 2.5/4 EDIT “Surprisingly dull and weightless...the direction of the image is often bland and functional.” – Movie Mezzanine May 21, 2015 Full Review Irrational Man (2015) 47% 2.5 EDIT “One of Allen's most twisted and enjoyable films from the past few years.” – Movie Mezzanine May 17, 2015 Full Review Tale of Tales (2015) 84% 2/4 EDIT “Flat and feeble” – Movie Mezzanine May 15, 2015 Full Review
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