Ashlee Blackwell
Tomatometer-approved critic
Movies reviews only
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The Summoning (2015) |
This is a significant step for African American-oriented genre programming on a cable network. - Shadow and Act
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| Posted Sep 15, 2022
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Evangeline (2013) |
It's wholly complex; all depressing, intriguing, carnal, seductive, and prompting. - Cinema Axis
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| Posted Feb 11, 2020
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Desolation (2017) |
Desolation is not quite popcorn fare with its spots of disturbing imagery, but it is a highly energetic, instropective, and honest piece. - Graveyard Shift Sisters
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| Posted Feb 11, 2020
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The Void (2016) |
I can't promise that it will all come together and make sense after one viewing. The rewatchability factor is, I'm happy to report, extremely high... - Graveyard Shift Sisters
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| Posted Feb 11, 2020
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Raw (2016) |
Raw is both endearing and brutal with Ducourau's masterful character development and visceral pleasures. - Graveyard Shift Sisters
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| Posted Feb 11, 2020
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FirstBorn (2016) |
FirstBorn is worth the time its given, and if you adore Antonia Thomas from the UK television series' Mistfits or even Lovesick, you'll definitely nod to the young actress' range and promise as a starlet. - Graveyard Shift Sisters
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| Posted Feb 11, 2020
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Better Watch Out (2016) |
Better Watch Out is the definition of a horror comedy, with great performances all around. - Graveyard Shift Sisters
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| Posted Feb 11, 2020
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Get Out (2017) |
...it'll be with us years later as shattered pieces from its fall, making sense for the future of how we talk about racism, and the human monster that hides within it. - Graveyard Shift Sisters
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| Posted Feb 11, 2020
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Quarries (2016) |
Quarries is a beautifully shot, female-driven, earnest attempt at visual self actualization and inner-strength. - Graveyard Shift Sisters
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| Posted Feb 11, 2020
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Waiting for You (2017) |
I've always been a fan of Dixon as a rising filmmaker who demonstrates a masterful use of camera work and sound... - Graveyard Shift Sisters
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| Posted Feb 11, 2020
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BOO! (2018) |
BOO! promises a raw, solemn, exquisite journey into nightmares that will assuredly haunt audiences at less of a moments notice. - Graveyard Shift Sisters
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| Posted Feb 11, 2020
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Buster's Mal Heart (2016) |
These themes of class and ethnicity in Buster's Mal Heart aren't frying pan head blows. They're subtle in order to sneak into your subconscious and reveals how a system, also subtly placed in Reagan's America is shattered. - Graveyard Shift Sisters
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| Posted Feb 11, 2020
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Dearest Sister: Nong Hak (2016) |
Nok's journey is a human one, and the climax of such a trek leaves you a feeling of satisfaction and intensity from not only from the story, but also of what Do will do next. - Graveyard Shift Sisters
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| Posted Feb 11, 2020
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The Perfection (2018) |
It is complexly, an emotionally draining, exhilirating, and liberating quest. - Graveyard Shift Sisters
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| Posted Feb 11, 2020
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Knives and Skin (2019) |
I'll be spending a lifetime with Knives and Skin. It is a beautiful revelation that we are all whole and never alone. - Graveyard Shift Sisters
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| Posted Feb 11, 2020
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Sweetheart (2019) |
A film that conveys volumes with a masterful amount of restraint. - Graveyard Shift Sisters
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| Posted Feb 11, 2020
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Child's Play (1988) |
The totality of the film got inside my head and never left. - Cinema Axis
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| Posted Feb 11, 2020
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The People Under the Stairs (1991) |
The everyday and mundane that lures us into a false sense of security can become the very sight of anxiety. [Wes Craven]... does so with a certain complexity and I think his sleepers don't get the attention they deserve. - Cinema Axis
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| Posted Feb 11, 2020
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Attack the Block (2011) |
I'm glad that science-fiction continues to nip at our sense of social consciousness with remarkable storytelling. - Cinema Axis
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| Posted Feb 11, 2020
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Troop Beverly Hills (1989) |
Troop Beverly Hills thoughtfully exposes the complexities of divorce, social/class culture and personal growth in a light comedy very much loyal to its time. - Birth.Movies.Death.
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| Posted Feb 11, 2020
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Us (2019) |
Its cold opening and the eerie tale that follows became a test of my own emotional state that I was not prepared in any way to face. And that's just one of the ways that makes this heavily symbolic film so brilliant. - Graveyard Shift Sisters
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| Posted Dec 18, 2019
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The Final Project (2016) |
The ending does stray a bit from predictable and reeks of sequel. However, it's a sequel you wouldn't care for let alone want. - Birth.Movies.Death.
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| Posted Jun 13, 2017
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The Eyes of My Mother (2016) |
It is an extremely moving film, and brutally exposes the damage we as people can easily inflict upon one another. - Birth.Movies.Death.
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| Posted Jun 13, 2017
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