Nathanael Hood
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Nathanael Hood is a 27 year old film critic currently based out of Manhattan with a passion for all things cinematic. He graduated from New York University - Tisch with a degree in Film Studies. He is currently a writer for TheYoungFolks.com, TheRetroSet.com, AudiencesEverywhere.net, and MovieMezzanine.com.

Movie Review: ‘Glassland’

When I was growing up outside of Dallas, a strange thing would happen when the teachers let us back into the school after recess: the lights would all seem like they were turned off. In fact, the inside looked darker…

Movie Review: ‘Misconduct’

The best scene in Shintaro Shimosawa’s Misconduct comes about one-third of the way in. Hotshot lawyer Ben (Josh Duhamel) has been handed the keys to a multi-billion dollar class action lawsuit against a corrupt pharmaceutical company which tampered with recent…

Movie Review: ‘Jeruzalem’

I only ask three things from found footage films. 1)  Give a plausible reason why the main character would be recording the events of the film. 2)  Allow a plausible explanation for how the footage was recovered. 3)  If you…

Movie Review: ‘Martyrs’

Continuing in the grand tradition of American remakes of foreign films that completely miss the point of the original, Kevin Goetz and Michael Goetz’s Martyrs is an unnecessary, toothless exercise in sub-mediocrity. The original film, Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs (2008), was…

Movie Review: ‘2 Rabbits’

I never thought I would ever find a filmmaker who could make Michael Bay feel staid and static. But in comes Afonso Poyart, a Brazilian director from São Paulo whose crime caper 2 Rabbits seems to redefine all boundaries of…

Movie Review: ’13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi’

Michael Bay’s career has always been working up to this point, hasn’t it? Since his debut with Bad Boys (1995), Bay’s films have been mired in two obsessions: a near psychopathic contempt for Authority Figures and an ironic idolization of…

Movie Review: ‘Diablo’

I’ll give Lawrence Roeck credit, at least he didn’t reveal the twist to his new film Diablo in its last few minutes. Usually when a major twist is saved until the very end of a film, it comes across as…