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Ed Gonzalez

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Biography:

Ed Gonzalez is the film editor of Slant Magazine, which he co-founded in 2001. His writing has appeared in the Village Voice, the Los Angeles Times, City Pages, and beyond. He's a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and a member of the New York Film Critics Circle, the Online Film Critics Society, and the New York Film Critics Online.

Location:

Brooklyn, NY

Official Website:

http://www.slantmagazine.com

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Midnight Mass: Season 1 (2021) 87% 2.5/4 EDIT “At its best, Midnight Mass exudes a narcotic pull in everything from its aesthetics to monologues that suggest the weight of confession.” – Slant Magazine Sep 20, 2021 Full Review Master of None: Season 3 (2021) 82% 3.5/4 EDIT “The series is, in its present and possibly final incarnation, about its makers answering to their audience.” – Slant Magazine May 27, 2021 Full Review The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez: Season 1 (2020) 82% 2/4 EDIT “It's as if the desire of The Trials of Gabriel Fernandez to entertain, to ensure that we are as spellbound as possible by yet another example of the atrocities that humans are capable of, is greater than any need to inform and educate.” – Slant Magazine Mar 27, 2020 Full Review 3.5/4 EDIT “[Andy] Milonakis is an absurdist, and a perverse one at that, and like all great comedy, his show is filled with surprises.” – Slant Magazine Dec 17, 2019 Full Review Crank Yankers: Season 1 (2002) 71% 3/5 EDIT “Some of the cranks may be mean-spirited, but I can't think of another comedy on television this concerned with testing people's tolerance levels and compassion for others.” – Slant Magazine Sep 20, 2019 Full Review Cane: Season 1 (2007) 55% 2.5/4 EDIT “The all-star cast... bring authenticity to what is otherwise a hysterical, Dynasty-style vision of Cuban-American experience set in and around kitschy Miami.” – Slant Magazine Sep 12, 2019 Full Review Pose: Season 2 (2019) 98% 2.5/4 EDIT “At its best, the series empathetically attest to the agonies that queer people to this day often have no choice but to suffer in silence.” – Slant Magazine Jun 11, 2019 Full Review 2.5/5 EDIT “When faced with that inevitable question often posed to critics ("What's your favorite movie of all time?"), I often avoid a direct answer by referencing the 1984 BBC mini-series The Singing Detective.” – Slant Magazine Apr 11, 2019 Full Review 227: Season 1 (1985) 44% 2/5 EDIT “A show of wasted opportunities, 227 is what The Women of Brewster Place would look like if it were edited for the Disney Channel.” – Slant Magazine Dec 10, 2018 Full Review Queer as Folk: Season 5 (2005) 67% 1/4 EDIT “Queer as Folk's politics are neither corrective nor does the show mean to take us down a progressive road; its exploitative, one-sided formula represents a shallow representation of gay culture.” – Slant Magazine Nov 8, 2018 Full Review The Haunting of Hill House: Season 1 (2018) 93% 4/4 EDIT “The Haunting of Hill House is a kind of riff on madness in its many forms, a sojourn of loss and regret.” – Slant Magazine Sep 25, 2018 Full Review The Walking Dead: Season 9 (2018) 89% 2.5/4 EDIT “In season nine, The Walking Dead concerns itself with the nitty-gritty of ensuring an egalitarian system of government.” – Slant Magazine Sep 20, 2018 Full Review Queer Eye: Season 2 (2018) 86% 2.5/4 EDIT “The show's strength isn't in selling us a product, but rather in using its heroes to remind us of how to be more decent.” – Slant Magazine Jun 15, 2018 Full Review Pose: Season 1 (2018) 96% 3/4 EDIT “Pose is at its best when devoted to advancing its representational politics.” – Slant Magazine May 31, 2018 Full Review V: Season 1 (1984) 67% 2.5/5 EDIT “Save for the awesome holographic set piece featured in episode four ("The Deception"), the series was less inventive than reductive.” – Slant Magazine May 19, 2018 Full Review John From Cincinnati: Season 1 (2007) 58% 2/4 EDIT “Right now, creator David Milch isn't being kind to anyone, especially himself, by playing it so aloofishly cool - showing off as if he were running on empty.” – Slant Magazine May 18, 2018 Full Review Prison Break: Season 1 (2005) 79% 3/4 EDIT “The show comes to us in the form of a rubix cube, and its pleasure lies in watching which new and exciting direction its plot gears will turn.” – Slant Magazine Mar 22, 2018 Full Review High Maintenance: Season 2 (2018) 100% 3.5/4 EDIT “The series attests to the revitalizing effects of living in a place where pockets of resistance remain.” – Slant Magazine Jan 19, 2018 Full Review The Deuce: Season 1, Episode 7 (2017) EDIT “The episode ends with the first shocking twist of the season.” – Slant Magazine Oct 23, 2017 Full Review Broad City: Season 4 (2017) 100% 3.5/4 EDIT “Broad City is still gut-busting, but there's a sad undercurrent to the new season.” – Slant Magazine Sep 12, 2017 Full Review Stephen King's Rose Red: Season 1 (2002) 42% EDIT “A meaty DVD package for a somewhat less than unnerving ghost story. This one may be for King's most fanatical followers.” – Slant Magazine Aug 25, 2017 Full Review Game of Thrones: Season 7, Episode 6 (2017) EDIT “The episode offers up a battle between CGI dragons and CGI zombies, to pulpy effect but no moral consequence.” – Slant Magazine Aug 21, 2017 Full Review The Americans: Season 5, Episode 13 (2017) EDIT “At's at this point that I realized that this show is far from exhausting its capacity to provide insights into these characters' lives, as it ended its fifth season with one of its greatest shocks to date.” – Slant Magazine May 31, 2017 Full Review The Americans: Season 5, Episode 12 (2017) EDIT “Acute bits of thematic connective tissue consistently deepen what is, at heart, 50 minutes' worth of Should I Stay Or Should I Go.” – Slant Magazine May 24, 2017 Full Review The Americans: Season 5, Episode 11 (2017) EDIT “[The final 15 minutes were] a masterwork of sustained intensity and moral confrontation that rivals the impact of the season-three triumph "Do Mail Robots Dream of Electric Sheep"-a high bar that the makers of this episode were perhaps hoping to exceed.” – Slant Magazine May 17, 2017 Full Review
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