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Review of A Quiet Passion (2016)

By Steve Erickson (207) for Nashville Scene (147) on 12 Feb 2018

It's no accident that A Quiet Passion evokes late avant-modernist women like Akerman and Huillet…

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Review of Particle Fever (2013)

By Steve Erickson (207) for Nashville Scene (147) on 12 Feb 2018

The movie could have been as dry as a NOVA episode, and indeed its weakest moments carry an arid whiff of PBS infotainment…

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Review of The Assassin (2015)

By Steve Erickson (207) for Nashville Scene (147) on 12 Feb 2018

You're not likely to see a better film this year…

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Review of Under the Sun (2015)

By Steve Erickson (207) for Nashville Scene (147) on 12 Feb 2018

a film about the human cost of authoritarianism, as well as a postmodern lesson in the value of questioning the reality of what we watch…

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Review of The Dog (2014)

By Steve Erickson (207) for Nashville Scene (147) on 12 Feb 2018

Cautionary tales are rarely this exhilarating…

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Review of Mr. Turner (2014)

By Steve Erickson (207) for Nashville Scene (147) on 12 Feb 2018

it's the British director's best film in years…

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Review of Foxcatcher (2014)

By Steve Erickson (207) for Nashville Scene (147) on 12 Feb 2018

You can see equally tawdry true-crime dramas all day long on cable TV, and their directors don't take 134 minutes or use a showily desaturated…

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Review of Actress (2014)

By Steve Erickson (207) for Nashville Scene (147) on 12 Feb 2018

Robert Greene's past two documentaries - Kati with an i, Fake It So Real - were impressive, but they didn't prepare one for the leap he's made…

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Review of Stranger by the Lake (2013)

By Steve Erickson (207) for Nashville Scene (147) on 12 Feb 2018

many of my qualms evaporated in the movie's brutally suspenseful final 10 minutes…

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Review of American Honey (2016)

By Steve Erickson (207) for Nashville Scene (147) on 12 Feb 2018

You may hate it, but you're unlikely to feel blasé after coming out the other end of Arnold's vision of America…

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Review of Raw (2017)

By Steve Erickson (207) for Nashville Scene (147) on 12 Feb 2018

The horror here isn't limited to expectations about women's bodies and the self-destructive things women do as a response, but it starts there…

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Review of Love Is Strange (2014)

By Steve Erickson (207) for Nashville Scene (147) on 12 Feb 2018

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Review of The Beguiled (2017)

By Steve Erickson (207) for Nashville Scene (147) on 12 Feb 2018

If Coppola puts a feminist spin on the narrative, emphasizing the difficulty of expressing female desire without endangerment, she's not far…

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Review of The Nile Hilton Incident (2017)

By Steve Erickson (207) for Nashville Scene (147) on 12 Feb 2018

Fares delivers one of this year's most impressive male performances so far, one that lifts this film above the neo-noir clichés that it could…

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Review of The Overnight (2015)

By Steve Erickson (207) for Nashville Scene (147) on 12 Feb 2018

In only 78 minutes, this eye-widening, startlingly honest little movie says more about love, and the difficulties of keeping it fresh, than…

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Review of The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)

By Steve Erickson (207) for Nashville Scene (147) on 12 Feb 2018

Both in her strength and confusion, Minnie - played by British actress Bel Powley - is a really believable teenager…

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Review of Dior and I (2015)

By Steve Erickson (207) for Nashville Scene (147) on 12 Feb 2018

The excess detailed in the Saint Laurent films is well behind us - which is good for Simons' health, but perhaps not so good for documentary…

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Review of Finding Fela (2014)

By Steve Erickson (207) for Nashville Scene (147) on 12 Feb 2018

Ultimately, Finding Fela loses its narrative backbone when it can no longer rely on gifted footage and must focus on the actual man…

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Review of Eat That Question: Frank Zappa in His Own Words (2016)

By Steve Erickson (207) for Nashville Scene (147) on 12 Feb 2018

Even if I remain unconvinced of the greatness of most of his music, Eat That Question makes the best possible case for his merits in other areas…

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Review of Short Term 12 (2013)

By Steve Erickson (207) for Nashville Scene (147) on 12 Feb 2018

That sputtering noise you hear in the nobly intentioned, intermittently moving Short Term 12 is the sound of feminism backfiring as it meets…

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