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Nick Newman

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Trap (2024) 56% B+ EDIT “It’s perhaps [M. Night Shyamalan's] best-engineered work since The Village and arguably the purest piece of entertainment he’s ever made.” – The Film Stage Aug 1, 2024 Full Review Dune: Part Two (2024) 92% C+ EDIT “It takes a good stretch of precious screentime for Part Two to play as anything other than a thoroughgoing, checklist-meeting obligation bolstered by obvious craft.” – The Film Stage Feb 21, 2024 Full Review Oppenheimer (2023) 93% B- EDIT “This film’s bait-and-switch, Oppenheimer’s moment of reckoning, might immediately be christened the single greatest sequence Christopher Nolan has ever directed.” – The Film Stage Jul 19, 2023 Full Review Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) 76% B- EDIT “Cameron, somewhat contra this initiative, also loves weapons, vehicles, vehicles as weapons, and what it looks like when those things destroy a body. On which front Way of Water delivers far above its predecessor, or for that matter any animated movie. ” – The Film Stage Dec 13, 2022 Full Review The Matrix Resurrections (2021) 63% B+ EDIT “The Matrix Resurrections is misshapen, haphazard, and some of the happiest a film has made me in 2021, regularly inspiring surprises and enthusiasms the contemporary tentpole long deemed irrelevant.” – The Film Stage Dec 21, 2021 Full Review The Card Counter (2020) 88% B+ EDIT “This is Schrader in a proper groove, playing the hits as his eyes and ears manifest some new formalist phase.” – The Film Stage Sep 2, 2021 Full Review Mank (2020) 83% C EDIT “The least-enjoyable film [David Fincher] ever directed, defined by its distended lack of accumulation, friction, traction, or revelation.” – The Film Stage Nov 6, 2020 Full Review David Byrne's American Utopia (2020) 97% C EDIT “I hate asking [Byrne to] shut up and sing, but preaching to the small, demographically skewed choir on this dire American epoch often renders Utopia vividly out-of-touch-an agent of social change much as income equality might be achieved via Reaganomics.” – The Film Stage Sep 16, 2020 Full Review EMMA. (2020) 86% C+ EDIT “There's something especially promising in Anya Taylor-Joy, who has now rendered both M. Night Shyamalan's theme-heavy lyricism and Austen-by-way-of-Catton's social maneuvering equally viable.” – The Film Stage Feb 19, 2020 Full Review Apocalypse Now: Final Cut (2019) 100% EDIT “More a reigned-in second stab than radical reworking.” – The Film Stage Aug 5, 2019 Full Review Domino (2019) 34% B EDIT “It's a chaotic joy; nearly malicious, deeply serious about the wounds of contemporary terrorism, and smart enough to pull off a mocking of the circumstances around those fighting it.” – The Film Stage May 28, 2019 Full Review High Flying Bird (2019) 91% B EDIT “A typically distanced and dense Steven Soderbergh study of institutional malfeasance​.” – The Film Stage Feb 7, 2019 Full Review Logan Lucky (2017) 92% A- EDIT “Logan Lucky embodies so much of what's made Steven Soderbergh that rare journeyman between arthouse and multiplex.” – The Film Stage Jul 24, 2017 Full Review Dunkirk (2017) 92% B- EDIT “Its images are most obviously big in size, more importantly fluid in movement in a way not equaled (let alone attempted) by just about anything you might find anywhere.” – The Film Stage Jul 20, 2017 Full Review Baby Driver (2017) 92% B+ EDIT “Wright doesn't simply apply technical precision and innovation to genre-smart storytelling - he also makes what must be exhausting work look like so much fun.” – The Film Stage Jun 27, 2017 Full Review Alien: Covenant (2017) 65% B EDIT “Come for the Fassbenders, stay for the nihilism and grotesquerie, and emerge with at least a few questions and curiosities on your mind.” – The Film Stage May 16, 2017 Full Review Song to Song (2017) 43% B+ EDIT “One of his most emotionally dense films, and perhaps the most outright restless.” – The Film Stage Mar 11, 2017 Full Review John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017) 89% B EDIT “Closer to an expansion of its predecessor than a true follow-up all its own, John Wick: Chapter 2 offers a fair share of what already worked while ironing out a few rough spots.” – The Film Stage Feb 8, 2017 Full Review Silence (2016) 83% B+ EDIT “Silence boasts a visual and emotional complexity that has the effect of being open for all and permitting to none.” – The Film Stage Dec 10, 2016 Full Review Nocturama (2016) 82% A- EDIT “As much as I admire Nocturama (answer: an awful lot), locating exact points of admiration proves difficult when its pleasures are so purposefully alienating and bitter.” – The Film Stage Oct 21, 2016 Full Review The Lost City of Z (2016) 85% B+ EDIT “The Lost City of Z goes above and beyond what many artists, even talents, possibly could've done with this kind of material.” – The Film Stage Oct 17, 2016 Full Review 20th Century Women (2016) 88% B+ EDIT “It's not that Mike Mills makes it look easy; it's that he can so deftly alternate concepts and executions inside a concentrated playing field, mining what's present for most, if not all, of what they're worth.” – The Film Stage Oct 16, 2016 Full Review Yourself and Yours (2016) 94% B+ EDIT “It's Lee who binds together Yourself and Yours' many parts, in turn making this film among the tightest in Hong's repertoire.” – The Film Stage Oct 5, 2016 Full Review Sully (2016) 85% B EDIT “It basks in the rightness of those who work hard to get a proper result, simultaneously disinterested in reinventing the wheel and still finding some new ways to spin it.” – The Film Stage Sep 8, 2016 Full Review Planetarium (2016) 15% C EDIT “Planetarium doesn't conclude so much as come to an end, and the lasting impression is one of bitterness.” – The Film Stage Sep 7, 2016 Full Review
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