The Joker and Judy
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
Aside from the tribalism of professional sports and the bloodsport of political shitposting on Facebook, the gleeful deconstruction of celebrity ranks among 21st-century Americans’ preferred …
Category: Movie Reviews
Infectious enthusiasm
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
It’s hard to stress how extensively critics have lost their damn minds over Parasite, the South Korean-language film from iconic-director-in-the-making Bong Joon-ho. Released in …
Nature and narrative
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
As decades of language arts teachers have told us, there are four central forms of conflict inherent in any narrative: character vs. character, character vs. …
Do you wanna build a sequel?
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff
I went to see the first Frozen movie with my three sisters in 2013 as a senior in high school. My baby sister was 11 …
Snoozer Agent
By Zach Hagadone
Reader Staff
By its nature, nothing is as it seems when it comes to espionage. Such is the case — in more ways than one — with …
Rethinking ‘Green Book’
By Jim Healey
Reader Contributor
The film “Green Book” is currently riding a wave of financial and critical success. It recently won the Best Picture award at the 91st Oscars, …
Class and culture collide in ‘Sorry to Bother You’
By Chris Balboni
Reader Contributor
In the opening scene of Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You,” we meet Cash Green at a job interview for the telemarketing company RegalView. After …
“An Inconvenient Sequel,” conveniently in Sandpoint
By Lyndsie Kiebert
Reader Staff Writer
A decade ago, “An Inconvenient Truth” brought climate change a pop culture recognition it hadn’t yet experienced. Now, Al Gore is back — grayer …
Film paints poignant vision of the Native experience
By Cameron Rasmusson
Reader Staff
If the emotional climax of “Neither Wolf Nor Dog” feels authentic, that’s because it is.
When it came time to shoot the climactic scenes at …
‘Sense the Wind’
By Ben Olson
Reader Staff
Sometimes a documentary film comes along and reminds us how resilient and powerful human beings really are. The upcoming documentary “Sense the Wind” playing Friday, …
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