Trace Sauveur’s Top 10 Films of 2019
Trace Sauveur’s Top 10 Films of 2019 The current state of the film industry perhaps isn’t the most ideal, but
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Author: Trace Sauveur
A Hidden Life Review: Malick’s Ethereal Stylings Undercut His Return to Narrative
After spending the entirety of the 2010s thus far perfecting what I suppose can now be called his mid-to-late career
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Second Opinion: Ending the Saga With A Shrug No one's ever really gone... because we gotta keep the fans happy.
I suppose we were always going to end up here. After the vitriolic backlash toward Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi
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Knives Out Second Opinion: Updating the Classic Hollywood Murder Mystery Family drama
If you’ve seen even just a glimmer of the marketing for Knives Out, Rian Johnson’s follow-up to his mostly successful
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The Nightingale Review: A Gratuitous Slog The exploitation movie tries to grow up
When Jennifer Kent burst onto the scene in 2014 with her debut feature The Babadook, I was absolutely enamored. I
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Doctor Sleep Review: A Messy, Interesting, Weird Extension Hello again, Danny
Doctor Sleep reveals to the audience how it intends to handle its cultural baggage rather quickly. Right from the opening
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The Lighthouse Review: An Atmospheric Trip to Absolute Lunacy This one's here to really shiver ye timbers
If there’s one thing to be learned from both Robert Eggers’ breakout indie-horror darling The Witch and his new, highly
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Prey Review: An Illogical, Banal Genre Exercise The real survival horror is surviving this movie
The plot of director Franck Khalfoun’s latest effort Prey is hilariously baffling. The short version is that high-schooler Toby’s (Logan
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Gemini Man Review: A Deeply Admirable, Flawed Experience Ang Lee's newest technological cinematic experiment is wild
Ang Lee is no stranger when it comes to attempting to integrate his very individual artistic vision with experimental technology.
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The Wretched (Grimmfest 2019) Review Something Wretched This Way Comes
If there’s one movie monster that feels criminally underrepresented in the mainstream lexicon of horror creatures, it has to be
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It Chapter Two Second Opinion: A Major Disappointment It Never Ends
It: Chapter Two is 2 hours and 45 minutes long. While that certainly may seem excessive on the outset, let’s
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Where’d You Go Bernadette Review: A Listless, Unfortunate Dud Where'd You Go, Richard Linklater?
The mystery surrounding the titular Bernadette’s (Cate Blanchette) whereabouts is less prominent than what you may glean from the title
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Good Boys Review: They Grow Up So Fast Good boys go superbad
I should begin by disclosing that I’m usually a complete mark for these Point Grey productions from long-time collaborators Seth
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Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark Review: Kids’ Horror Movies Deserve To Be Scary Too Sleep with the nightlight on
Good children’s’ horror seems like it’s hard to come by these days. While there is certainly a place for spooky-themed
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