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January 15, 2021

“The Ultimate Playlist of Noise” is treacly YA that can’t find its voice

Bennett Lasseter's teen romance plays like Sound of Metal for the YA set, but sags under a heaping helping of misconceptions about deafness.
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September 19, 2019

Hustlers Review: See How the Other Half Grifts

Lorene Scafaria drenches her recession-era crime dramedy in neon, bills, and deep intention.
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March 15, 2019

“Captive State” Succeeds As A Spy Thriller, But Fails Its Characters

Rupert Wyatt's dark sci-fi allegory about a Chicago occupied by sinister alien forces features some smart, subversive sequences but lacks strong characters.
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January 11, 2019

More of a Comment, Really…: CAM’s Daniel Goldhaber on the Lines Between Porn, Cinema and Horror

For our first episode, we talk to the director of Netflix's camgirl thriller CAM about finding horror and empathy in online sex work.
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December 5, 2018

CAM Review: Netflix’s Peep Show Into the Terror of Stolen Identity

Director Daniel Goldhaber and screenwriter Isa Mazzei explore the complexities of online sex work with a fascinating thriller about a camgirl facing an identity crisis...