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M. Faust

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Biography:

M. Faust has reviewed movies for the books Video Movie Guide, The Motion Picture Guide, Movies on TV and Videocassette, The Complete Guide to Videocasette Movies, The Movie Guide, and the Virgin Film Guide; for the magazines Video Digest and Video; online for FamilyWonder.com, and for the Buffalo News and Niagara Falls Gazette. He is presently the film critic for ArtVoice in Buffalo NY.

Location:

Buffalo, NY

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
Make Me Famous (2021) 100% 4/4 EDIT “...a treasure trove of images, home movie footage and interviews regarding the East Village scene...now lost to a fog of gentrification and business.” – The Buffalo Hive Oct 5, 2025 Full Review Freaky Tales (2024) 75% 2.5/4 EDIT “[Although the] finale is too gruesome for mass audiences ... it is the definition of a cult movie, made with clear affection for its characters and the era it seeks to recreate, and with the expectation that not everyone is going to get it. ” – The Buffalo Hive Aug 30, 2025 Full Review The Friend (2024) 84% 3/4 EDIT “The Friend rambles on a bit longer than it should have ... but it is an engaging, relatable drama that was a pleasure to spend time with.” – The Buffalo Hive Aug 30, 2025 Full Review The Ballad of Wallis Island (2025) 96% 2/4 EDIT “It’s notable that the script ... resists going where you expect it to. But it doesn’t really go much of anywhere, meandering on to a dramatic revelation ... that isn’t actually all that dramatic. ” – The Buffalo Hive Aug 28, 2025 Full Review That They May Face the Rising Sun (2023) 97% 3.5/4 EDIT “[It] reminded me of two other films about the simple pleasures of everyday life, Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days (2023) and Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson (2016). All have found inspiration in the work of Yasujiro Ozu, Japan’s patron saint of contemplative cinema.” – The Buffalo Hive Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Fight or Flight (2024) 76% 3/4 EDIT “Reminiscent of the gleefully ludicrous action extravaganzas of Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass, Argylle, the Kingsman series) ... Fight or Flight isn’t exactly a comedy but uses humor to offset what would otherwise be a stomach-churning amount of violence.” – The Buffalo Hive Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Jane Austen Wrecked My Life (2024) 82% 3/4 EDIT “[Writer-director] Laura Piani cites Ernest Lubitsch, Billy Wilder, James Ivory and Mike Leigh as inspirations for her first feature ... a pleasant chance to enjoy in a theater the kind of romantic comedy that has largely been shifted to streaming. ” – The Buffalo Hive Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Friendship (2024) 88% 2 EDIT “Tim Robinson got his start as a writer/performer on “Saturday Night Live.” Did none of those people warn him about all the flop films based on SNL characters? Friendship demonstrates that those who do not remember film history are condemned to repeat it.” – The Buffalo Hive Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Kill the Jockey (2024) 86% B EDIT “What held my attention ... is the precision of Ortega’s direction. Working with DP Timo Salminen, known for his long association with Finland's Aki Kaurismaki, Ortega maintains a drolly distanced tone that is the factor holding it all together. ” – The Buffalo Hive Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Shoshana (2023) 73% B+ EDIT “Moments of narration filling in gaps between scenes give the impression that this two-hour film may have been whittled down from something longer, though it would take a miniseries even to begin to do justice to all the history converging here.” – The Buffalo Hive Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Relay (2024) 82% A EDIT “Highly recommended, especially if you’re a fan of the paranoid thrillers of the 1970s... It’s a testament to both the filmmakers and the actor that [star Riz] Ahmed compels our attention despite not having any dialogue for the first half of the film.” – The Buffalo Hive Aug 28, 2025 Full Review The Pornographer (1999) 43% 3/4 EDIT “Writer-director Doug Atchison’s film avoids cheap thrills in favor of strong characterization and difficult moral questions” – The Buffalo Hive Aug 28, 2025 Full Review Highest 2 Lowest (2025) 83% 2/4 EDIT “Lee’s adaptation [of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 classic HIGH AND LOW] is anything but a slavish remake. Quite the opposite: it short shrifts so much of the original story that after a while you start wondering where Lee’s real interest lies.” – The Buffalo Hive Aug 28, 2025 Full Review C.H.U.D. II (1989) EDIT “It's a dumb zombie comedy with a gaggle of third rate celebrity cameos.” – Buffalo News May 10, 2025 Full Review Hard-Boiled (1992) 92% EDIT “Pyrotechnic excesses aside, Hard-Boiled is pretty astounding, what with the peanut-butter-should-be-so-smooth Chow Yun-Fat, acrobatic stunt work and preposterous gunplay. ” – Buffalo News Jul 27, 2023 Full Review The Take Out Move (2022) 2.5/4 EDIT “It’s all very Seinfeld-esque, or like those scenes in Quentin Tarantino movies filled with chatter that has nothing to do with the story. The small cast is certainly committed to the project, which is essential to this kind of humor. ” – The Public (Buffalo) Nov 23, 2022 Full Review The Valet (2022) 75% 2/4 EDIT “It’s all as predictable as a bowl of macaroni and cheese, and at over two hours – well, how much macaroni and cheese do you think you can eat?” – The Public (Buffalo) Sep 15, 2022 Full Review Take the Night (2022) 77% EDIT “The debut feature of writer-director Seth McTigue is a vividly photographed, intensely scored and sincerely acted caper drama with one problem: it doesn’t make a lot of sense.” – The Public (Buffalo) Aug 19, 2022 Full Review By Night's End (2020) 100% 3/4 EDIT “Recalling classic home-based thrillers like Wait Until Dark and Shallow Grave, By Night’s End is the kind of low-budget indie that tends to get lost in the crush of movies looking for an audience in the post-theatrical landscape. ” – The Public (Buffalo) Jul 14, 2022 Full Review A Field in England (2013) 86% B EDIT “Touchstones include Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Wicker Man, and Peter Watkins Culloden. The small cast comes from British comedy, which is so much more wide-ranging and serious than American comedy that it's - well, its not even funny. ” – ArtVoice Apr 12, 2022 Full Review Ghost Light (2021) EDIT “In the end, its a bit of a disappointment that Ghost Light doesnt wholly deliver on its promise... Still, the story is pleasingly unpredictable and the players never less than fun to watch.” – The Public (Buffalo) Apr 8, 2022 Full Review Vietnam: Fast Forward (2021) 80% 2/5 EDIT “Well intended but unsatisfying look at Vietnam's thriving modern economy as seen through the eyes of a variety of entrepreneurs.” – The Public (Buffalo) Dec 14, 2021 Full Review Greed (2019) 50% 6/10 EDIT “An "eat the rich" comedy and a docudrama about the fast fashion industry is a lot to cram into one movie, and you can't help but feel that Michael Winterbottom might have found a better vehicle to express his anger (but give it credit for trying).” – The Public (Buffalo) Mar 13, 2020 Full Review The Island of Cats (2019) 100% 6/10 EDIT “If you're a viewer who needs dramatic resolution, you're not going to get much from this gentle story. It's as contemplative as an Ozu movie, albeit one which takes regular breaks to watch cats doing whatever it is they do with their time.” – The Public (Buffalo) Mar 3, 2020 Full Review Buffaloed (2019) 80% 8/10 EDIT “It's a blue collar movie that isn't going to make anyone want to move here, but I'm fine with that: take us as we are or leave us alone.” – The Public (Buffalo) Feb 14, 2020 Full Review
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