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      Josh Larsen

      Josh Larsen

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      Biography:

      Josh Larsen is the former movie critic for a group of Chicago-area newspapers and current co-host of Filmspotting. You can read his work at LarsenOnFilm.com.

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      Rating T-Meter Title | Year Review
      3.5/4
      Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) An expansion of the first film aesthetically, emotionally, thematically, and spiderly... - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Jun 01, 2023
      4/4
      A Brighter Summer Day (1991) ...gives early teen life, in all its complexity, a burnished reverence. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted May 29, 2023
      3/4
      Bait (2019) ...functions on a subliminal level. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted May 25, 2023
      3/4
      Enys Men (2022) Jenkin’s technique seems best suited toward psychological horror... - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted May 25, 2023
      3.5/4
      You Hurt My Feelings (2023) ...a wise comedic drama about the necessary lies we tell each other (and ourselves). - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted May 24, 2023
      3.5/4
      Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret. (2023) A minor miracle... - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted May 18, 2023
      2/4
      Master Gardener (2022) A charitable reading of Master Gardener would be to say that it feels unfinished and unformed. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted May 14, 2023
      3/4
      Sans Soleil (1982) There is a density to Sans Soleil that’s intimidating. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted May 13, 2023
      3.5/4
      Suzume (2022) Another imaginative, emotive, and astonishingly animated fantasia from Makoto Shinkai... - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted May 05, 2023
      3/4
      Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) ...takes its fantasy world seriously, but not itself. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted May 03, 2023
      2.5/4
      Intermezzo (1939) Bergman has an uncharacteristic eagerness... - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Apr 30, 2023
      1.5/4
      Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) ...a combination of those exploitative ads from animal shelters and the Japanese body-horror endurance test Tetsuo: The Iron Man. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Apr 29, 2023
      4/4
      The Mirror (1975) ...offers mesmerizing moments when something indefinable penetrates the mundanity. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Apr 28, 2023
      3/4
      Beau Is Afraid (2023) Phoenix gives a rigor mortis performance. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Apr 23, 2023
      3/4
      R.M.N. (2022) ...suggests a rot in the human psyche that’s too far gone. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Apr 21, 2023
      3/4
      Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) ...a movie that seems to have given up on the very idea of genuine human connection, even as it aches for exactly that. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Apr 06, 2023
      3/4
      Showing Up (2022) …an argument for valuing the artistic process over the art. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Apr 04, 2023
      3/4
      How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022) An efficient thriller with eco-political ambitions... - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Mar 31, 2023
      3.5/4
      Imitation of Life (1959) Melodrama with lasting, emotional heft... - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Mar 29, 2023
      3/4
      John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) ...benefits hugely from the addition of martial-arts master Donnie Yen. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Mar 26, 2023
      3/4
      Mishima (1985) Might be Schrader’s most visually bold work... - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Mar 25, 2023
      2.5/4
      Hardcore (1979) Both screed and confession... - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Mar 23, 2023
      3.5/4
      Rodeo (2022) ...like a Fast and Furious film that’s been stripped for its flashy parts. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Mar 15, 2023
      4/4
      Sansho the Bailiff (1954) ...a humanist landmark. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Mar 10, 2023
      3/4
      Creed III (2023) Majors is easily the best thing in this third Rocky offshoot... - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Mar 08, 2023
      2.5/4
      Scream VI (2023) There’s an intriguing idea and an incredible sequence in Scream VI... - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Mar 08, 2023
      1.5/4
      Rage in Heaven (1941) ...should have been way weirder than it is. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Mar 06, 2023
      2.5/4
      Creed II (2018) ...essentially a remake of Rocky IV. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Mar 04, 2023
      3.5/4
      Persona (1966) The quintessential, mid-century art film... - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Mar 01, 2023
      3.5/4
      The Hustler (1961) ...features one of Paul Newman’s most tarnished, self-destructive golden boys. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Feb 26, 2023
      3/4
      Causeway (2022) Lawrence and Tyree Henry form a connection that’s life-giving... - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Feb 25, 2023
      3/4
      The Sting (1973) A pleasure... - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Feb 21, 2023
      3/4
      A Woman's Face (1938) ...suggests an intriguing alternative career for Ingrid Bergman. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Feb 17, 2023
      3.5/4
      Lady Snowblood (1973) ...unspools images that are as evocative as the movie’s title. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Feb 16, 2023
      3/4
      Interlude (1936) ...feels like a baton being passed from one method of acting to another. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Feb 15, 2023
      2.5/4
      Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (2023) ...enough oogly landscapes and googly creatures to power two Star Wars pictures and half a Dune. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Feb 14, 2023
      2.5/4
      High Plains Drifter (1973) A nasty, eerie Clint Eastwood Western... - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Feb 11, 2023
      3/4
      The Spook Who Sat by the Door (1973) A C.I.A. satire that turns incendiary... - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Feb 10, 2023
      3/4
      Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023) The stars are so in sync that the silly story doesn't matter. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Feb 09, 2023
      3/4
      Paper Moon (1973) Father and daughter are a delight when pulling a con together... - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Feb 08, 2023
      3/4
      Magic Mike XXL (2015) ...shines as a movie musical. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Feb 05, 2023
      2.5/4
      Knock at the Cabin (2023) ...mostly registers as a meditation on the size and scope of Dave Bautista’s head. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Feb 01, 2023
      3/4
      All Quiet on the Western Front (2022) ...has the explicit immediacy of Saving Private Ryan and the bureaucratic, bird’s-eye-view of Paths of Glory. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Jan 31, 2023
      2.5/4
      F for Fake (1973) Orson Welles goes full Godard... - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Jan 25, 2023
      3.5/4
      Amarcord (1973) When Fellini turns down the volume, a soft sense of magic seeps in... - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Jan 23, 2023
      3.5/4
      Skinamarink (2022) ...like The Blair Witch Project if it had been simmered, alongside Poltergeist, in a pot of slow cinema. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Jan 20, 2023
      3.5/4
      Journey of the Hyena (1973) Humor, avant-garde editing, and social critique all come together... - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Jan 19, 2023
      3/4
      Pearl (2022) ...as if Dorothy got sucked up by a tornado and dropped down in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre — holding the chainsaw. - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Jan 16, 2023
      3.5/4
      Fantastic Planet (1973) A strange new world weirdly unfolds in Fantastic Planet... - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Jan 12, 2023
      3/4
      White Noise (2022) It’s best to give up on getting a firm handle on the film and instead enjoy the tentacles of seeming randomness... - LarsenOnFilm
      Read More | Posted Jan 11, 2023
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