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Review of Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 05 Nov 2018

Tucker, the character, embellishes and enchants with his mile a minute mouth (hilarious blowing past malapropisms like opening Aunt Dora's…

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Review of The Unborn (1991)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 02 Nov 2018

The Unborn is a culty midnight movie that, like far more such films than we tend to credit, has a brain whose synapses are constantly firing…

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Review of Greaser's Palace (1972)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 02 Nov 2018

Robert Downey Sr. eventually reveals that he's made a comedic satire that's hilarious, ugly and beguiling…

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Review of Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 31 Oct 2018

Queen made great albums; Bohemian Rhapsody is just a playlist…

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Review of Boy Erased (2018)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 31 Oct 2018

Boy Erased is not designed to be punishing or even uncomfortable to sit through…

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Review of Night of the Lepus (1972)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 29 Oct 2018

It's not bad enough to be funny but it's ridiculous enough in its very existence that maybe it would have been better if it had actually tried…

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Review of The Great Silence (1968)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 29 Oct 2018

With the help of a typically stellar score from Ennio Morricone, The Great Silence is one of the prettiest, most thoughtful movies you'll ever…

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Review of And Then I Go (2017)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 26 Oct 2018

One of the most welcome but surprising things about And Then I Go is its consistent dosage of effective, humanistic comedy…

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Review of Shirkers (2018)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 25 Oct 2018

Tan's joy in cinema is apparent in Shirkers' sometimes collage-like construction…

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Review of The Oath (2018)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 24 Oct 2018

With his eye keenly trained on the various ways ideology manifests as personality, Barinholtz wrings both hilarity and dread out of the chaotic…

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Review of What They Had (2018)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 24 Oct 2018

What They Had, light as a sunbeam and heavy as snowfall, grips our hand through the transition from memory to reality and lets us know it's…

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Review of Jonathan (2018)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 24 Oct 2018

It's so ruthlessly competent in its construction and execution that an inexperienced viewer may initially mistake its aptitude for quality…

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Review of Climax (2018)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 09 Oct 2018

Gaspar Noé's Climax is a Gaspar Noé movie, by which I mean that it delights in thrilling you as much it does in shocking and upsetting you…

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Review of First Man (2018)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 09 Oct 2018

Even when Chazelle's not using literal point-of-view shots, he still favors close-ups and elevates the sounds of ragged or labored breathing…

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Review of The Happy Prince (2018)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 03 Oct 2018

Everett tips the movie over into ridiculousness when he starts making barely veiled allusions to Wilde as a Christ-like figure…

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Review of 3 Faces (2018)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 02 Oct 2018

3 Faces flirts with the fish out of water comedy of these two big city folks in the country (they literally speak different languages) but…

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Review of Assassination Nation (2018)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 30 Sep 2018

Satire is usually associated with humor but Assassination Nation is an unrelentingly sad and fatalistic version of the format…

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Review of Lizzie (2018)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 12 Sep 2018

Lizzie ultimately does more for history, women and cinema with its devotion to the muddiness of morality and the clarity, however fleeting, of love…

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Review of Mandy (2018)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 11 Sep 2018

At its core, despite being unreservedly far out, Mandy is a pretty conventional revenge story…

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Review of Science Fair (2018)

By David Bax (50) for Battleship Pretension (71) on 11 Sep 2018

As long as we adults don't stop them, these kids will literally save us all. What's cooler than that…

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