Review of Bad Axe (2022) by Andrew Crump for Paste Magazine — 21 Nov 2022

It’s a simple film about complicated, often painful confirmations about the country we all call home, and about optimism for what that country can look like when people share it with each other; it’s about what happens when your worst nightmare come true; for Chun, it’s also about suffering a nightmare so dreadful that the foundational trauma of your youth seems preferable by comparison.

But it’s especially about the way movies change the people who make them and the people who watch them. Bad Axe is a gift.