Damon Wise
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Merritt Wever On The Moral Lessons Of Lance Oppenheim’s ‘Primetime’: “We Don’t Seem To Learn” (opens the original)
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From Alex Gibney’s mammoth study of the rise of X proprietor Elon Musk to Danny Boyle’s dramatization of the birth of British tabloid newspaper The Sun, this year’s Venice Film festival featured a lot of movies speculating on the past, present and future of the media. None did it quite as disturbingly, however, as Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime, starring Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen, one of the earliest stars of the early-21st-century reality-TV revolution. Called To Catch a Predator, Hansen’s
‘Sense & Sensibility’ Review: Rebellious Take On Jane Austen Satire (opens the original)
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Over 30 years have passed since Ang Lee worked his magic on Jane Austen’s 1811 novel Sense and Sensibility, and, aside from a 2008 BBC miniseries, it’s taken until now for someone else to have a bash at a feature film version. It’s surprising it’s taken so long; a quick revisit shows that the 1995 film hasn’t aged very well, being a cavalcade of famous British faces pushing 40 and given the chocolate-box patina of a country idyll that surely no one has ever lived in. You could be forgiven for ex
‘A Talent For Murder’ Review: Helen Mirren Is Mesmerizing As Patricia Highsmith (opens the original)
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This flawed but very entertaining two-hander belongs in the unique subgenre of literary biographies in which a cult author’s life is investigated through the highly specific prism of their work. Shirley Jackson, for example, was cast into a dark Gothic psychodrama in Josephine Decker’s Shirley; William S. Burroughs became a drug-addicted spy who reports to a big talking-ass beetle in David Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch; and similarly, as she waits for inspiration to strike, Patricia Highsmith commune
‘Alpha Gang’ Review: The Zellner Brothers’ Gonzo Sci-fi Comedy Is Crazy (opens the original)
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Fun comes with a big F.U. in this outrageous and frequently pant-wettingly funny aliens-are-among-us comedy from David and Nathan Zellner. Their last film, Sasquatch Sunset (2024), seemed hard to top, taking two high-profile indie stars — Jesse Eisenberg and Riley Keogh — and rendering them entirely unrecognizable under head-to-foot Bigfoot costumes, with a freewheeling script made up entirely of grunts and gibberish. What would they do for an encore? Well, this, a ridiculously starry gonzo romp
‘The Last Photograph’ Review: DC’s Zack Snyder Comes Back Down To Earth (opens the original)
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After so many years in the DC universe, Zack Snyder comes back down to earth again with a violent but surprisingly human action thriller set in the jungles of an unidentified Latin American country. Its plotline — more of which later — could go either way, and since the director has been unfairly accused of dodgy politics ever since the homoerotic jingoism of 300 (2006), many may expect this to be his Sound of Freedom, the QAnon-adjacent indie hit of 2023. Thankfully, The Last Photograph is no s
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