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Paul Kanieski

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Poor Things (2023) 92% EDIT “... an ecstatically subversive fantasy that imagines how an adult woman might relate to the world if she had somehow sidestepped years of social indoctrination.” – KSQD Community Radio Jan 18, 2024 Full Review Dream Scenario (2023) 91% EDIT “Dream Scenario takes a cautionary look at celebrity and cancel culture as it traces the fantastical plight of a nondescript, bespectacled, bald and bearded biology professor named Paul, hilariously brought to life by Nicolas Cage.” – KSQD Community Radio Dec 7, 2023 Full Review Stop Making Sense (1984) 100% EDIT “Stop Making Sense remains one of the most supremely satisfying concert movies ever made.” – KSQD Community Radio Oct 5, 2023 Full Review Barbie (2023) 88% EDIT “Barbie, the movie, might make a few missteps as a feminist polemic, but it largely succeeds as a gleefully subversive look at the dehumanizing effects of inequality and how a simple idea can change the world.” – KSQD Community Radio Aug 23, 2023 Full Review Enemy (2013) 73% EDIT “Enemy is brimming with non-commercial bravado that borders on being confessional. Just as Hitchcock made manifest his voyeuristic and controlling proclivities, Villeneuve exposes his own conflicted feelings towards women and monogamy.” – KSQD Community Radio Aug 16, 2023 Full Review Oppenheimer (2023) 93% EDIT “Nolan refrains from passing judgment on Oppenheimer – leaving that to us, if we so choose – suggesting instead that it’s within our inherently contradictory human nature to create as well as destroy.” – KSQD Community Radio Aug 9, 2023 Full Review Asteroid City (2023) 76% EDIT “There’s been an evolution to Anderson’s filmmaking, and with Asteroid City, his inimitable directorial style has reached a whole new level of precision engineering.” – KSQD Community Radio Jul 26, 2023 Full Review Master Gardener (2022) 71% EDIT “By turning subtext into text, Schrader himself becomes the subtext, and we become acutely aware that below the surface of Master Gardener is a master puppeteer pulling the strings.” – KSQD Community Radio Jul 26, 2023 Full Review BlackBerry (2023) 97% EDIT “Snappy editing, sharp dialog, and a judicious rock soundtrack create an exciting portrait of an insanely successful high-tech startup – until, of course, fortunes turn.” – KSQD Community Radio Jul 26, 2023 Full Review Dune (2021) 83% EDIT “The talented cast is in service of spectacle, doing little more than providing the expositional sutures that connect one elaborate set piece to the next.” – KSQD Community Radio Jul 26, 2023 Full Review EO (2022) 96% EDIT “Like a poem, both EO the movie and EO the donkey have their own ineffable language.” – KSQD Community Radio Jul 26, 2023 Full Review Empire of Light (2022) 44% EDIT “As an exploration of a May-December romance, an unstable psyche, racism, or movie magic, Empire of Light sputters along the same well-worn road that far better films have traveled before.” – KSQD Community Radio Jul 26, 2023 Full Review The Whale (2022) 64% EDIT “A morbidly obese man racked with self-loathing makes a desperate eleventh-hour attempt to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter in the overstuffed but worthwhile drama, The Whale.” – KSQD Community Radio Jul 26, 2023 Full Review A Love Song (2022) 95% EDIT “Not unlike its two central characters, A Love Song speaks softly and honestly and without hyperbolic drama, making this little slice of senior romance a thought-provoking delight.” – KSQD Community Radio Jul 26, 2023 Full Review Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) 93% EDIT “An omnipotent being is threatening the multiverse. Who ya gonna call? Spiderman? Dr. Strange? How about a middle-aged Asian-American woman failing as a wife and mother?” – KSQD Community Radio Jul 26, 2023 Full Review To Leslie (2022) 93% EDIT “Here’s hoping Andrea Riseborough’s controversial but well deserved Oscar nod inspires lovers of mature cinema to seek it out.” – KSQD Community Radio Jul 26, 2023 Full Review Living (2022) 96% EDIT “Artistic flourishes, excellent acting, and solid craftsmanship notwithstanding, Living is unlikely to displace Ikiru within the pantheon of essential viewing, but hopefully it will impart the same timeless lessons to a new generation.” – KSQD Community Radio Jul 26, 2023 Full Review Don't Look Up (2021) 56% EDIT “On par with a mediocre SNL sketch.” – KSQD Community Radio Jul 26, 2023 Full Review Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood (2022) 91% EDIT “The warm humor of Apollo 10 ½ springs organically from the absurdities of the time. ” – KSQD Community Radio Jul 26, 2023 Full Review Triangle of Sadness (2022) 72% EDIT “The surprising turn of events in Triangle of Sadness leads to an inevitable conclusion; power is the ultimate form of currency, and even the lowliest of dictators will do whatever it takes to hang onto it.” – KSQD Community Radio Jul 26, 2023 Full Review The Fabelmans (2022) 92% EDIT “With The Fabelmans, Spielberg makes the case that retinal impressions aren’t the only thing that persist; movies can forever change who we are and how we see one another.” – KSQD Community Radio Jul 26, 2023 Full Review The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) 96% EDIT “The Banshees of Inisherin, as the title implies, is about death, both literal and figurative, but it’s the sad demise of a friendship that forms the bedrock of this brilliant, often poignant, frequently funny Irish fable.” – KSQD Community Radio Jul 26, 2023 Full Review Tár (2022) 91% EDIT “Todd Field uses smart scriptwriting and the extraordinary acting skills of Cate Blanchett to conduct a virtual symphony of cinema that resonates long after the closing credits.” – KSQD Community Radio Jul 26, 2023 Full Review Us (2019) 93% EDIT “Peele crafts a story that sucks us into a waking nightmare, and along the way it touches on such weighty themes such as economic disparity, nature vs. nurture, and our propensity for self-destruction.” – KSQD Community Radio Jul 26, 2023 Full Review Collective (2019) 99% EDIT “Watching Collective is not unlike reading a Michael Crichton page-turner.” – KSQD Community Radio Jul 26, 2023 Full Review
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