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Luke Hicks

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Biography:

A New York City film journalist by way of Austin, TX, Luke is an arts enthusiast who received his master's studying film philosophy and ethics at Duke. He thinks every occasion should include one of the following: whiskey, coffee, gin, tea, beer, or basketball.

Reviews

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Peter Hujar's Day (2025) 92% 5/5 EDIT “It’s Sachs’ best film yet.” – Little White Lies Jan 9, 2026 Full Review Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (2025) 98% EDIT “Her death gives an urgency to her story that courses through the veins of Farsi’s investigative, eyes-wide-open documentary, making it a must-see to continue facing the reality of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.” – The Film Stage Nov 10, 2025 Full Review Below the Clouds (2025) 94% EDIT “Guided by Rosi’s meditation and contemplative control, this is among the year’s best documentaries.” – The Film Stage Oct 20, 2025 Full Review The Love That Remains (2025) 95% EDIT “The Love That Remains occupies the rarified air of a movie that has it all: heartwarming joy, heartwrenching pain, comedy that charms so invasively it gives chills of envy, meditation, action, all shapes and sizes of duration and composition. ” – The Film Stage Oct 20, 2025 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% EDIT “If you can get past some of Cooper’s cringier directorial tendencies, there’s a delightful film buried in there with a gentle touch and a genuine appetite to exorcise loneliness from its viewers.” – The Film Stage Oct 11, 2025 Full Review Caught Stealing (2025) 85% EDIT “An oft-exhilarating take on the worn genre––with the occasional caving to a tired trope––Aronofsky’s newest joins the upper echelons of lonely-man-with-cat(s) cinema.” – The Film Stage Aug 30, 2025 Full Review Splitsville (2025) 84% EDIT “Under Covino’s direction there’s a holistic sense of artistry, comedic precision, and creative control in their approach––especially per the romcom, an of-late-anemic subgenre that gets some resuscitation in their newest, Splitsville. ” – The Film Stage Jun 12, 2025 Full Review Yes! (2025) 87% EDIT “It’s not vitriolic but chiding, free-flowing, and riotously funny until it sours into reality. Our ability to read the first, party-paced half as a sick joke is buried deep within the desolate agony of the largely Palestinian-focused second.” – The Film Stage Jun 5, 2025 Full Review Sentimental Value (2025) 97% EDIT “With Value, Trier dials back style flourishes, stripping away the zip and verve that defined Worst Person in order to mine interiors of both the individual and collective family unit with unblinking sincerity.” – The Film Stage May 22, 2025 Full Review The History of Sound (2025) 70% EDIT “As in Davies’ films, the sudden, plentiful a cappella folk songs disarm any listener of their modern context to help understand why the experience was so powerful. In this sense, Mescal is perfectly cast.” – The Film Stage May 22, 2025 Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 83% EDIT “If Highest 2 Lowest falls on the lower end of [Lee and Washington's] partnership, the sparks of brilliance they’ve found in the past will flare up multiple times.” – The Film Stage May 21, 2025 Full Review Alpha (2025) 56% EDIT “One film too late for a sophomore slump, Alpha feeds on its own potential, turning a possibly brilliant collection of ideas into one so muddy it’s hard to say exactly what any of them connote.” – The Film Stage May 21, 2025 Full Review The Phoenician Scheme (2025) 77% EDIT “The tricks don’t amount to more than brief pleasantries that vanish within seconds among the sandstorm of narrative details which follow. Here’s hoping for a Wes of more depth next round.” – The Film Stage May 19, 2025 Full Review Miroirs No. 3 (2025) 94% EDIT “There is no big explainer moment or narratively satisfying closure, the likes of which Petzold rejects, but the enigmas that do reveal themselves yield rare treasures.” – The Film Stage May 18, 2025 Full Review One to One: John & Yoko (2024) 90% EDIT “What could only be partially heard on Lennon’s posthumous 1986 album Live in New York City can now be seen and heard in crisp, clear beauty across one giant, riveting, unforgettable cinematic experience.” – The Film Stage Apr 11, 2025 Full Review The Actor (2025) 78% EDIT “The Actor is certainly indebted to some of modern cinema’s momentous mindfucks, but Johnson avoids the capital crime of imitation, delivering a fresh-yet-recognizable take on the microgenre” – The Film Stage Mar 12, 2025 Full Review The Monkey (2025) 77% EDIT “Most deaths are grisly, gruesome, shocking, funny, Perkins’ exaggerated display of violence another nod to Tarantino. And it’s not just physical violence. ” – The Film Stage Feb 21, 2025 Full Review Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 (2024) 50% EDIT “For all its ambition and likeability, Chapter 2 often plays like prestige TV (that wouldn’t win awards)... but it’s thoroughly enjoyable TV at least.” – Little White Lies Jan 26, 2025 Full Review Pavements (2024) 95% EDIT “It captures the artistry, ingenuity and humor of its subject better than an encyclopedic history ever could – a music doc for whom success, in the spirit of Pavement, looks very different.” – Little White Lies Jan 26, 2025 Full Review Wolf Man (2025) 48% B- EDIT “ In no uncertain or un-literal terms, Wolf Man is about the hereditary horrors our parents pass down to us––the same ones we unleash on our children––and our willingness, or lack thereof, to take responsibility for them, to kill them. ” – The Film Stage Jan 15, 2025 Full Review Santosh (2024) 100% B EDIT “The enigmatic screenplay devises a grey area so hazy you’ll be going over it in your head for weeks, if not months, asking yourself what you would’ve done in Santosh’s impossible situation.” – The Film Stage Dec 31, 2024 Full Review Wicked (2024) 88% C+ EDIT “It relegates its thematic strengths to the corner of ironically thoughtless family fun entertainment that seeks to please and assuage.” – The Film Stage Nov 20, 2024 Full Review My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2024) 100% B+ EDIT “Through Loktev’s run-and-gun immersion in their world, we begin to understand how the groundwork is laid to propagandize and miseducate the masses, a huge swath of whom see straight through it. ” – The Film Stage Oct 17, 2024 Full Review Queer (2024) 77% 5.0/10 EDIT “By the end, so many disparate metaphors have forced their way into the story that it feels lost in its own menagerie, the film blending the life of Burroughs and Lee in a way that should’ve been executed with more subtlety and tact or simply left out.” – Paste Magazine Oct 11, 2024 Full Review Viet and Nam (2024) 98% B+ EDIT “Minh Quý’s slow-cinema sensibilities are nothing short of spellbinding, the trance of rumination within reason enough to seek it out.” – The Film Stage Oct 7, 2024 Full Review
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