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Andrew Karpan

Andrew Karpan's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).

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The Emoji Story (2019) 92% EDIT “The larger story tracks this decade's change in internet culture as it moves away from nerds festering around California college campuses and into the hands of the people.” – Nonfics (Substack) May 25, 2019 Full Review Red, White & Wasted (2019) 75% EDIT “Before the warming ocean turns Florida into an uninhabitable flood land, there is value in having a real idea of how some of them lived.” – Nonfics (Substack) May 25, 2019 Full Review Bauhaus Spirit: 100 Years of Bauhaus (2018) EDIT “Bolbrinker and Tielsch's dynamism creates the impression of an art movement that has never stopped moving.” – Nonfics (Substack) May 25, 2019 Full Review Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project (2019) 95% EDIT “As a vaguely cohesive visual text, [Stokes'] life's strange work is not worthless....Recorder also doubles as a grimy mirror to the TV news era.” – Nonfics (Substack) Apr 29, 2019 Full Review They'll Love Me When I'm Dead (2018) 92% EDIT “"Less hubristic than its source material, Morgan Neville's softer version of this project is perhaps more satisfying."” – Nonfics (Substack) Nov 9, 2018 Full Review Border (2018) 97% EDIT “An indie full of smart allegories on immigration politics, with a little bit of lo-fi fashionable horror sprinkled in.” – Film School Rejects Oct 29, 2018 Full Review Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (2018) 90% EDIT “The effect of Loveridge's choices are almost alarmingly cohesive and summon as much M.I.A. as the decade she herself evoked.” – Nonfics (Substack) Oct 10, 2018 Full Review Garry Winogrand: All Things Are Photographable (2018) 97% EDIT “Freyer's talking heads implore that Winogrand was a man of his time, a statement that mitigates the intensity of her examination and means absolutely nothing.” – Nonfics (Substack) Sep 21, 2018 Full Review Walking on Water (2018) 88% EDIT “A rich, visual record of a monument to transience.” – Nonfics (Substack) Sep 14, 2018 Full Review American Circumcision (2017) 60% EDIT “A lively debate over the fate of foreskins.” – Nonfics (Substack) Sep 7, 2018 Full Review Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat (2017) 88% EDIT “The documentary's under-90-minute brevity makes these events feel like they are happening even faster than they did, creating a simulacra of witnessing Basquiat's talent.” – Nonfics (Substack) Aug 31, 2018 Full Review Zoe (2018) 35% EDIT “Zoe constructs a dialogue between these two critically adored movies and peels apart the kind of fantasy they satisfy in order to obligingly critique it.” – Film School Rejects Aug 22, 2018 Full Review The China Hustle (2017) 80% EDIT “The documentary's banal incredulousness at its subject suggests Rothstein should watch a few seasons of The Sopranos.” – Nonfics (Substack) Mar 28, 2018 Full Review Beuys (2017) 69% EDIT “The movie will not appeal to most, but it's hard to imagine that Bueys's own work ever did either.” – Nonfics (Substack) Mar 6, 2018 Full Review Blame (2017) 80% EDIT “At the heart of it, Blame is more than just a competently-shot movie - it's a love letter pulled from a time-capsule, its ink blotchy and not curated for nostalgia.” – Film School Rejects Jan 10, 2018 Full Review Rock'n Roll (2017) 67% EDIT “For fans of Adaptation and I'm Still Here who felt both were great but too dreadfully serious. It's just life, after all.” – Film School Rejects Jan 8, 2018 Full Review Flames (2017) 67% EDIT “A document of its times, Flames works as a brilliant time capsule of the Obama era: we walk in on staged protests of late capitalism as often as lovemaking.” – Film School Rejects Jan 8, 2018 Full Review My Friend Dahmer (2017) 85% EDIT “As My Friend Dahmer slowly steers its protagonist toward his historical fate, the result is crushing.” – Film School Rejects Jan 8, 2018 Full Review Love After Love (2017) 85% EDIT “Rarely have I watched a movie, hated it with an intense malevolence for every person involved and, then, only then, found myself blinking through tears.” – Film School Rejects Jan 8, 2018 Full Review Thirst Street (2017) 75% EDIT “Few filmmakers are capable of imagining anything worse than supernatural horror or overly conventional heartbreak and Silver ends up creating something in between those worlds.” – Film School Rejects Nov 21, 2017 Full Review Copwatch (2017) 60% EDIT “[Camilla Hall's] characters are hopeful and, so, perhaps is Copwatch.” – Nonfics (Substack) Oct 19, 2017 Full Review City of Ghosts (2017) 98% EDIT “In another war zone, Matthew Heineman exchanges nihilism for hope, sentiment and journalists.” – Nonfics (Substack) Aug 31, 2017 Full Review Brillo Box (3 Cents Off) (2016) 88% EDIT “The movie becomes an extended reflection on the work ... in order to distill what exactly is at the root of the work's, and Warhol's, appeal.” – Nonfics (Substack) Aug 6, 2017 Full Review The Reagan Show (2017) 80% EDIT “It's like Veep for '80s kids.” – Nonfics (Substack) Jun 30, 2017 Full Review The Last Laugh (2016) 98% EDIT “When it floats away from its star talent, The Last Laugh becomes a viciously humane work, on a journey as vigorous as any contemplated by D.A. Pennebaker and his sort.” – Nonfics (Substack) May 9, 2017 Full Review
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