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Review of Stampede (2022)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 15 Mar 2023

Thrumming with energy—thanks to vivacious filmmaking from director Lola Quivoron and a ferocious lead performance by newcomer Julie Ledru—Rodeo…

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Review of Creed II (2018)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 09 Mar 2023

Adonis’ motivations are less compelling here than they were in Creed—especially in the way they sideline his relationship with the pregnant…

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Review of Creed III (2023)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 09 Mar 2023

Majors is easily the best thing in this third Rocky offshoot…

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Review of Scream VI (2023)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 08 Mar 2023

There’s an intriguing idea and an incredible sequence in Scream VI—which is just enough to justify this follow-up to 2022’s Scream (which…

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Review of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 15 Feb 2023

The clarity and imagination of the world-building carried me through, as well as the fountain of charm that is Paul Rudd…

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Review of Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 07 Feb 2023

The undercurrent of economic insecurity is gone, replaced by a generic, “get-the-band-back-together” plot, but this sequel to Magic Mike…

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Review of Knock at the Cabin (2023)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 01 Feb 2023

If Knock at the Cabin is mid-tier Shyamalan, at best, it may be because I was more taken with these formal choices than the story, which riffs…

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Review of All Quiet on the Western Front (2022)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 31 Jan 2023

We should never become accustomed to the horrors of war, so for all its familiarity (morally and formally), the movie still feels necessary…

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Review of Skinamarink (2023)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 19 Jan 2023

The long, seemingly monotonous shots in Skinamarink will be trying for some, yet there are rewards if you have the patience: occasional, eerie…

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Review of White Noise (2022)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 12 Jan 2023

White Noise is ultimately an absurdist comedy, with Gerwig and Driver as the victims/clowns at its center (he wears a suit of amusing denialism,…

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Review of White Noise (2022)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 12 Jan 2023

White Noise is ultimately an absurdist comedy, with Gerwig and Driver as the victims/clowns at its center (he wears a suit of amusing denialism,…

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Review of Broker (2022)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 23 Dec 2022

Broker marks another minor miracle from writer-director Hirokazu Kore-eda, featuring another one of his makeshift families…

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Review of Bad Axe (2022)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 23 Dec 2022

Formally straightforward and heavily reliant on the perspective of the oldest sister, Jaclyn, Bad Axe (whose title comes from the name of the…

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Review of Athena (2022)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 19 Dec 2022

When it’s clicking—and it mostly clicks—Athena balances aesthetics with import, even interweaving the two into something that has the…

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Review of Women Talking (2022)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 19 Dec 2022

Women Talking reduces women to their words, as the title implies, a choice that is bold but limiting…

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Review of Descendant (2022)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 19 Dec 2022

Whenever someone wants to downplay historical atrocities, Descendant suggests, it’s because they’re also trying to cover up injustice in…

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Review of Corsage (2022)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 19 Dec 2022

Overall, Corsage doesn’t reinvent the royal-as-trapped-canary subgenre (it also glorifies Elisabeth’s ultimate fate in a slightly uncomfortable…

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Review of Babylon (2022)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 16 Dec 2022

It would be too dismissive to call Babylon—Damien Chazelle’s incessantly bravura period piece set during Hollywood’s transition to the…

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Review of Babylon (2022)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 16 Dec 2022

It would be too dismissive to call Babylon—Damien Chazelle’s incessantly bravura period piece set during Hollywood’s transition to the…

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Review of Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 15 Dec 2022

A work of blockbuster auteurism, Avatar: The Way of Water wildly, weirdly expends massive resources on a vision at once generic and bizarrely…

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