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Review of True History of the Kelly Gang (2019)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 24 Apr 2020

The script has enough sexual pathology humming under the hood to stoke sufficient curiosity about the depths of Kelly‘s strangeness…

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Review of The Lodge (2020)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 26 Mar 2020

The Lodge falls into the more common trap of spinning its wheels in a mudbath of obviousness and red herrings, dredging up anxieties and questions…

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Review of First Cow (2020)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 06 Mar 2020

It manages to be about a great many things—but above all, it’s a movie about two men, two bodies, and the masculine, economic codes of…

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Review of Onward (2020)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 26 Feb 2020

It’s a fine movie: cute, clever, moving, and engagingly-told, an altogether painless confirmation of what we should all agree is Pixar’s…

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Review of The Turning (2020)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 24 Jan 2020

Somehow, a James novella whose subtext has been debated for over a century has been rendered almost free of subtext—and it sort of works…

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Review of A Hidden Life (2019)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 03 Jan 2020

The film never obscures what it’s about. This is, after all, the story of a martyr…

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Review of Richard Jewell (2019)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 03 Jan 2020

Jewell, to its credit, is anchored by one of the more complex heroes in Eastwood’s canon…

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Review of Atlantics (2019)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 03 Jan 2020

The mysteries of Atlantics, and there are plenty, are rooted in the question of what the lives of those men were worth—and of what, just…

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Review of American Dharma (2019)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 31 Oct 2019

There are personal fragments of interest here; it’s useful to see how a man like Bannon narrates the story of himself, mythologizes himself,…

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Review of Waves (2019)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 14 Sep 2019

The purpose of the fine-grained emotional details keeps getting scrubbed out of Waves as its runtime wears on and reconciliation feels increasingly…

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Review of Waves (2019)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 14 Sep 2019

The purpose of the fine-grained emotional details keeps getting scrubbed out of Waves as its runtime wears on and reconciliation feels increasingly…

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Review of Harriet (2019)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 13 Sep 2019

It doesn’t have the polish or prestige of your typical Oscar movie…

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Review of Jojo Rabbit (2019)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 10 Sep 2019

Jojo Rabbit has little to say about any of the things it dredges up, beyond the obvious…

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Review of Dolemite Is My Name (2019)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 09 Sep 2019

It feels at times like a Tracy Jordan spoof of a movie, and not always for the better…

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Review of The Assistant (2020)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 04 Sep 2019

[Green has] made a powerful movie about the ways power enforces silence, even between assistants and other underlings—people convinced they…

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Review of The Assistant (2020)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 04 Sep 2019

[Green has] made a powerful movie about the ways power enforces silence, even between assistants and other underlings—people convinced they…

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Review of It Chapter Two (2019)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 03 Sep 2019

There isn’t truly standout work from anyone in the cast, even if the cast is what makes the movie work when it does work…

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Review of Judy (2019)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 01 Sep 2019

I admire Zellwegger’s performance most of all for risking outright broadness, even badness, to chip away at the truths of the star’s persona…

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Review of Uncut Gems (2019)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 01 Sep 2019

Uncut Gems is a movie that lives in the gut, where shit makes a name for itself, where anxiety, folly, and instinct are borne out without morality…

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Review of Judy (2019)

By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 01 Sep 2019

I admire Zellwegger’s performance most of all for risking outright broadness, even badness, to chip away at the truths of the star’s persona…

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