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Review of Spooner (2009)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 16 Mar 2011

Spooner unfolds in an alternate, fantasy reality where girls swoon over de-masculinized awkwardness, and its makers additionally assume this…

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Review of Carbon Nation (2011)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 04 Mar 2011

Thought-provoking on a macro level in some of its interviews, but its sloppy construction, poor focus and rah-rah boosterism make for a sludgy…

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Review of Alien Girl (2010)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 17 Feb 2011

Alien Girl exudes a wearying, recombinant raison d'être; it's as if all the parts of a dozen American crime thrillers were distilled through…

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Review of Sanctum (2011)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 15 Feb 2011

Director Alister Grierson nicely juggles the requirements of confined space adventure with the movie's somewhat more pedestrian human drama…

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Review of You Wont Miss Me (2009)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 16 Dec 2010

A woozy, quasi-experimental travelogue through twentysomething malaise, anchored by a superb turn from Stella Schnabel, daughter of filmmaker Julian…

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Review of Tiny Furniture (2010)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 09 Dec 2010

Loose-limbed and pleasantly idiosyncratic -- if Todd Solondz were 25 years younger, and had a beating heart where his contempt for humanity…

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Review of Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields (2011)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 11 Nov 2010

A glimpse behind the curtain of creativity that makes a persuasive case for a tip of the cap to artistic enablers…

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Review of Fair Game (2010)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 11 Nov 2010

Bristling with an entirely earned indignation, Fair Game is a film about the bullhorn naturally accorded to power, and the anger the public…

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Review of Red White & Blue (2010)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 27 Oct 2010

A gripping work, Red White & Blue is one of those stunning, gem-find indie movies that creeps up on you like a dark, sudden storm cloud in…

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Review of Red, White and Blue (1971)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 27 Oct 2010

A gripping work, Red White & Blue is one of those stunning, gem-find indie movies that creeps up on you like a dark, sudden storm cloud in…

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Review of 11/4/08 (2010)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 26 Oct 2010

There's a sort of plebian engagement and value in these collected snapshots, but they don't really fit together in any compelling fashion…

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Review of Stone (2012)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 13 Oct 2010

A meditative, quietly gripping work about people awash in latent unhappiness, coming up from the mud, and slowly pawing their way to a place…

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Review of Stone (1974)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 13 Oct 2010

A meditative, quietly gripping work about people awash in latent unhappiness, coming up from the mud, and slowly pawing their way to a place…

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Review of Stone (2010)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 13 Oct 2010

A meditative, quietly gripping work about people awash in latent unhappiness, coming up from the mud, and slowly pawing their way to a place…

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Review of The Freebie (2010)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 12 Oct 2010

Something of an emotional-psychological cheat…

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Review of Kings of Pastry (2009)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 12 Oct 2010

Slowly blossoms into something engaging and even poignant, despite an uninspired, point-and-shoot style that rivals Sarah Palin for its lack…

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Review of Inside Job (2010)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 11 Oct 2010

A clear-eyed, calmly reasoned wake-up call that reveals the 2008 financial collapse to be both a crime of greed and a systemic failure, a de-pantsing…

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Review of Nowhere Boy (2009)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 04 Oct 2010

Nowhere Boy exists only for the same reason that Googling 'celebrity high school photos' will yield over 35 million results -- there is, in…

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Review of Freakonomics (2010)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 03 Oct 2010

An unusual cinematic experiment that comes off as a hit-and-miss collection of appetizers…

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Review of Let Me In (2010)

By Brent Simon (1,142) for Shared Darkness (279) on 30 Sep 2010

At once tender and brutal, Let Me In is a transfixing elegy the likes of which the supernatural horror genre rarely produces…

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