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Olympic Dreams Movie Review: No finish line in sight
Nathanael Hood February 9, 2020

Former Olympian Alexi Pappas has all the makings of a great actress, if only someone could get her to stop acting. Throughout her new film Olympic Dreams, directed by long-time partner Jeremy Teicher,…

Nathanael Hood February 9, 2020
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Tolkien Movie Review: Director Dome Karukoski misses the mark, and the magic
Nathanael Hood May 19, 2019

There’s an inspired moment about halfway through Dome Karukoski’s Tolkien where a young J. R. R. Tolkien (Nicholas Hoult) takes his future wife Edith Bratt (Lily Collins) to tea in a lavish restaurant…

Nathanael Hood May 19, 2019
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Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice Tribeca Movie Review: A hollow exploration of a wondrous career
Nathanael Hood May 4, 2019

The first half of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice is a maddening, frustrating sit, portraying Ronstadt—the woman who would go multiplatinum several times, win …

Nathanael Hood May 4, 2019
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Film Review: ‘At the Heart of Gold’ is a Necessary Autopsy and a Grim Warning
Nathanael Hood April 25, 2019

[Warning: This review contains descriptions of sexual assault] One of the most shocking revelations in Erin Lee Carr’s documentary At the Heart of Gold, a chilling expose of the 2016-2017 USA gymnasti…

Nathanael Hood April 25, 2019
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Furie (Hai Phuong) Movie Review: A Vietnamese bone-crunching visual delight
Nathanael Hood March 8, 2019

Hai Phuong hurts people for a living. A debt collector in rural Can Tho, she earns her keep beating up pig farmers and street grocers who missed their payments to loan sharks. When she fight…

Nathanael Hood March 8, 2019
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The Quake Movie Review: Norway’s New Disaster Film Barely Registers on the Richter Scale
Nathanael Hood December 15, 2018

In 2015, Roar Uthaug The Wave made waves—pun not intended—as the self-proclaimed first ever Scandinavian disaster movie. Borrowing heavily from the Roland Emmerich playbook, it followed the fate of a …

Nathanael Hood December 15, 2018
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a Violent, Heart-breaking Old West Meditation on Mortality
Nathanael Hood November 17, 2018

Death has always been a punchline for Joel and Ethan Coen. Its suddenness, its finality, its nihilistic impartiality—these anxieties have flooded their films since their very first, 1984’s Blood Simpl…

Nathanael Hood November 17, 2018

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