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KSQD Community Radio is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Paul Kanieski.

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Poor Things (2023) Paul Kanieski ... an ecstatically subversive fantasy that imagines how an adult woman might relate to the world if she had somehow sidestepped years of social indoctrination.
Posted Jan 18, 2024  Edit critic review
Dream Scenario (2023) Paul Kanieski 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.
Posted Dec 07, 2023  Edit critic review
Stop Making Sense (1984) Paul Kanieski Stop Making Sense remains one of the most supremely satisfying concert movies ever made.
Posted Oct 05, 2023  Edit critic review
Barbie (2023) Paul Kanieski 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.
Posted Aug 23, 2023  Edit critic review
Enemy (2013) Paul Kanieski 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.
Posted Aug 16, 2023  Edit critic review
Oppenheimer (2023) Paul Kanieski 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.
Posted Aug 09, 2023  Edit critic review
Asteroid City (2023) Paul Kanieski 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.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
Master Gardener (2022) Paul Kanieski 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.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
BlackBerry (2023) Paul Kanieski 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.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
Dune (2021) Paul Kanieski 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.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
EO (2022) Paul Kanieski Like a poem, both EO the movie and EO the donkey have their own ineffable language.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
Empire of Light (2022) Paul Kanieski 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.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
The Whale (2022) Paul Kanieski 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.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
A Love Song (2022) Paul Kanieski 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.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022) Paul Kanieski 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?
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
To Leslie (2022) Paul Kanieski Here’s hoping Andrea Riseborough’s controversial but well deserved Oscar nod inspires lovers of mature cinema to seek it out.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
Living (2022) Paul Kanieski 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.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
Don't Look Up (2021) Paul Kanieski On par with a mediocre SNL sketch.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
Apollo 10 1/2: A Space Age Childhood (2022) Paul Kanieski The warm humor of Apollo 10 ½ springs organically from the absurdities of the time.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
Triangle of Sadness (2022) Paul Kanieski 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.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
The Fabelmans (2022) Paul Kanieski 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.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
The Banshees of Inisherin (2022) Paul Kanieski 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.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
Tár (2022) Paul Kanieski 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.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
Us (2019) Paul Kanieski 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.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
Collective (2019) Paul Kanieski Watching Collective is not unlike reading a Michael Crichton page-turner.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
The Duke of Burgundy (2014) Paul Kanieski The Duke of Burgundy is a sympathetic look at the negotiations and compromises that often need to occur in relationships after they suddenly and unexpectedly morph into something that threatens to flutter away.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
Luzzu (2021) Paul Kanieski Luzzu is a social message film that avoids didacticism by distilling complicated globalization and ecological issues into a simple family drama.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
Emily the Criminal (2022) Paul Kanieski Emily the Criminal is an edge-of-your-seat thriller aimed directly at millennials, replacing the glamor and sexiness prevalent in crime films made by previous generations with an indictment against the stacked deck economy that’s become the status quo.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
Nope (2022) Paul Kanieski As with his previous films, Peele wears his inspirations on his sleeve. This time around he mines heavily from two Spielberg classics, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Jaws.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
Inglourious Basterds (2009) Paul Kanieski Inglourious Basterds shows the power of film as both a wartime weapon and an elemental force – dangerous as propaganda, incendiary when ignited.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
Shaun of the Dead (2004) Paul Kanieski You won’t need a box of Kleenex, but this British comedy/horror film is at times surprisingly sentimental. It’s also hysterically funny.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (2019) Paul Kanieski Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom was written, directed and produced by first time filmmaker Pawo Choyning Dorji. Dorji is a Buddhist, which in retrospect comes as no surprise; the story he tells unfolds like a Buddhist fable for modern times.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
One Cut of the Dead (2017) Paul Kanieski One of the smartest, funniest, and sweetest zombie movies you will ever see.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
Titane (2021) Paul Kanieski Stylistically, Ducournau delivers enough body horror to satisfy fans of David Cronenberg while using a lurid color palette reminiscent of Dario Argento.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
The Worst Person in the World (2021) Paul Kanieski One of the more profound moments comes from a monologue given by someone who is facing down his own mortality.
Posted Jul 26, 2023  Edit critic review
Being the Ricardos (2021) Paul Kanieski As with all of Sorkin’s work, the main appeal of Being the Ricardos is how his script, like a glass bottom boat, allows us to see beneath the surface of a rarefied world.
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
Spencer (2021) Paul Kanieski Princess Di, it’s overstated, was like a beautiful bird trapped in a gilded cage – a pheasant, to be exact. Pheasants are shown adorning the tapestry above her bed, hunted for sport, and escaping shotgun blasts only to end up roadkill (!!!).
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
No Time to Die (2021) Paul Kanieski Bond sequels have always recycled elements from its predecessors. But No Time to Die, the 25th film in the franchise, reaches back half a century to borrow almost exclusively from On Her Majesty’s Secret Service.
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
Last Night in Soho (2021) Paul Kanieski Wrapping oneself up in the warm blanket of nostalgia has always been an alluring proposition. Cult filmmaker Edgar Wright provides a corrective to those rose-colored cravings with Last Night in Soho, a creepy ghost story with a twist.
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
Licorice Pizza (2021) Paul Kanieski Even though Paul Thomas Anderson keeps things real by avoiding glamour shots and reveling in close-ups of imperfect teeth and skin blemishes, he gives us Gary & Alana moments that border on the magical.
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
Nightmare Alley (2021) Paul Kanieski Few directors can match Guillermo del Toro‘s virtuosity. There’s a Kafkaesque yet sensual opulence to his dark sensibilities.
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
C'mon C'mon (2021) Paul Kanieski It’s to C’mon C’mon’s credit that it creates such a strong sense of verisimilitude that by the end of the film we feel like we have been the ones tasked with babysitting.
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
Belfast (2021) Paul Kanieski Belfast is infused with Branagh’s love of film and film history.
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
The French Dispatch (2021) Paul Kanieski The French Dispatch is arguably Wes Anderson’s most ambitious film, definitely his most frenetic, and possibly the most alienating to all but the most devoted Wes Anderson fans.
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
Memento (2000) Paul Kanieski Memento ends as brilliantly as it begins, merging the two disparate timelines into one, and leaving us with a disquieting insight into human nature – that even fundamentally good people can gaslight themselves.
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
Lamb (2021) Paul Kanieski Lamb evokes ruminations on the fraught complexities of human-animal relations, whether it’s what we choose to eat, the arbitrary value we assign to the lives of different species, or our tendency to anthropomorphize.
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
I Am Not a Witch (2017) Paul Kanieski By examining social problems such as corruption, misogyny, and superstition within a rarely seen culture, I Am Not a Witch provides an original parable of a child who falls prey to ignorant self-serving adults.
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
The Card Counter (2020) Paul Kanieski The Card Counter is a fascinating character portrait with the trappings of a suspenseful revenge thriller, all wrapped up in a bloody American flag.
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
The Believer (2001) Paul Kanieski Gosling takes full advantage of The Believer’s compelling story to deliver an unforgettable psychological portrait of a man who is literally his own worst enemy.
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
Kajillionaire (2020) Paul Kanieski Miranda July’s talent as a storyteller lies in her ability to walk the fine line between pathos and fanciful comedy, and Kajillionaire is arguably her strongest work yet.
Posted Jul 25, 2023  Edit critic review
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