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Uncorked is the very definition of a middle-of-the-road Netflix drama; unchallenging but charming, well-acted but to unambitious ends, and as
Uncorked review – another by-the-numbers Netflix drama Glass Half Full" href="https://readysteadycut.com/2020/03/27/uncorked-netflix-review/">Read morePatrice Laliberté’s French-Canadian survivalist thriller The Decline, new on Netflix today, is about isolated people viciously turning on each other,
The Decline review – a nasty, but unmemorable survivalist thriller Living Off the Land" href="https://readysteadycut.com/2020/03/27/the-decline-netflix-review/">Read moreNow available to stream on Netflix during your days of lonely isolation, Tamas Yvan Topolanszky’s debut feature Curtiz is a stylish biopic
Curtiz review – a stylized love letter to Casablanca and classic cinema Here's looking at you from a different angle, kid" href="https://readysteadycut.com/2020/03/25/curtiz-netflix-review/">Read moreApple’s first big dive into popular feature films is a fairly formulaic biopic of two men who attempted to subvert
The Banker review – a formulaic film that offers a mild return on your investment A Bankable Effort" href="https://readysteadycut.com/2020/03/23/the-banker-review/">Read moreWho doesn’t love a good heist film? I sure do, and I may argue that it’s hard not to make
The Burnt Orange Heresy review – a dull, uneven adaption of a Willeford novel A Bad Romance" href="https://readysteadycut.com/2020/03/22/the-burnt-orange-heresy-review/">Read moreThere have been so many coming of age comedies since Dazed and Confused that they all have been repeated, copied,
Big Time Adolescence review – huh, okay. Grown-ish" href="https://readysteadycut.com/2020/03/22/big-time-adolescence-hulu-review/">Read moreThe Platform (Netflix) quite literally makes a meal of its metaphors, but perhaps in our thoroughly divided age, that’s just
The Platform review – an unsubtle anti-capitalism horror with plenty to chew on Eat Your Fill" href="https://readysteadycut.com/2020/03/20/the-platform-netflix-review/">Read moreThe timing either couldn’t be better or couldn’t be worse for Francesco Lettieri’s debut feature Ultras (Netflix), a solid drama about hooliganism
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With her debut feature Make Up, writer/director Claire Oakley seems to posit that the most frightening yet fulfilling undertaking we
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The Surrogate is a portrait of the immense strain on our personal relationships when faced with a complex moral dilemma.
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The Carnivores is a movie about love on the rocks. There’s Brett (Lindsay Burdge) and her dog Harvie. Brett loves
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The blurred lines between real life and performance in the internet age have become an increasingly potent topic to investigate.
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Ray keeps hearing that he should get a quantum computer. Set in what director Noah Hutton describes as a “parallel
Read moreI wrote a special feature for the good people of Ready Steady Cut last fall celebrating the 20-year anniversary of
Lost Girls review – a film that is hard to recommend or disregard The Missing" href="https://readysteadycut.com/2020/03/13/lost-girls-netflix-review/">Read moreThere has been much negative controversy on social media over the new horror-thriller The Hunt, from director Craig Zobel. However,
The Hunt review – a gory good time that bleeds red and blue Red-State vs. Blue-State" href="https://readysteadycut.com/2020/03/11/the-hunt-review/">Read moreI can’t think of many superstars who built a career with lasting legs based on a single (and everlasting) film series
Bloodshot review – about as common an action-adventure film as O+ Spattered" href="https://readysteadycut.com/2020/03/11/bloodshot-review/">Read moreThere are so many things that could have gone wrong in Gavin O’Connor’s latest sports film, The Way Back. He
The Way Back review – a smart script that doesn’t turn the ball over Rock Bottom" href="https://readysteadycut.com/2020/03/09/the-way-back-review/">Read moreThe knock on Marco Bellocchio’s Il traditore since premiering in 2019 at Cannes is the disorganized way the script handles
The Traitor review – an unconventional mafia tale that’s a brutal knockout Our Godfather" href="https://readysteadycut.com/2020/03/09/the-traitor-review/">Read moreOur Godfather is an interesting case study — fascinating really, in taking away the Hollywood lore of most gangster films for
Our Godfather review – a polarizing documentary feature The Traitor" href="https://readysteadycut.com/2020/03/09/our-godfather-review/">Read moreThe sole reason to seek out the ever-eclectic Michael Winterbottom’s satirical dark comedy Greed is the performance by longtime collaborator, Steve Coogan.
Greed review – a bullish, satirical dark comedy A Bullish Film" href="https://readysteadycut.com/2020/03/06/greed-review-a-bullish-satirical-dark-comedy/">Read more
