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Brent Simon

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A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Brent Simon is a three-term president of LAFCA, and an award-winning journalist with bylines in dozens of publications, from Screen International and Newsweek Japan to Mtime and AV Club. He cannot abide a world without U2 and tacos.

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Ex-Husbands (2023) 83% B “An interesting, intergenerational snapshot of masculine emotional drift in the modern world. What may strike some as lightweight will connect with attuned viewers as a compassionately observed collection of just-so moments—a worthwhile cinematic novella.” – AV Club Feb 20, 2025 Full Review The Dead Thing (2024) 83% B “While not without its faults, The Dead Thing literalizes the hold of toxic relationships and trauma-bonding in a way that effectively reads as a metaphor about codependency, while also remaining elastic enough to invite multiple related interpretations.” – AV Club Feb 15, 2025 Full Review Don't Die: The Man Who Wants to Live Forever (2025) 75% C+ “Despite this committed avoidance of a heavier thematic lift, Don’t Die: The Man Who Wants To Live Forever still works quite fine as a slice of diverting entertainment. ” – AV Club Jan 6, 2025 Full Review Omni Loop (2024) 83% C “Measuring end-of-life anxiety with an open heart if not the most disciplined head, Omni Loop exists in a soupy, ill-defined emotional middle ground — occasionally amusing but not quite funny, and unable (or unwilling) to commit to penetrating melancholia.” – AV Club Sep 23, 2024 Full Review Daughters (2024) 100% B+ “Told in elegiac brushstrokes, and incredibly smart about finding relatable human moments to pull viewers onto a plane of elevated reflection, Daughters also reaches past easy uplift and the tears of its sweetly staged reunion, into the more bittersweet.” – AV Club Aug 21, 2024 Full Review War Game (2024) 80% B- “Ably taps into a gathering darkness present in society, but seems to have no thesis, one way or another, on whether American identity, and indeed the American experiment, can survive the savvy machinations of those who vilify democracy for personal gain.” – AV Club Aug 3, 2024 Full Review Clear Cut (2024) 0% 1.5/5 “Clear Cut unfolds mostly as an escalating series of “LOL”s, by which I mean overwhelmingly dubious choices that combine to give the entire proceeding the feeling of a living instructional document on how not to make a movie.” – Shared Darkness Jul 19, 2024 Full Review Ghostlight (2024) 99% A- “Beautifully realized. A simple, throwback, redemptive story about the very personal roads of grief we all must travel, Ghostlight connects as authentic and heartfelt, but there’s also a sneaky profundity to match.” – AV Club Jun 19, 2024 Full Review Handling the Undead (2024) 75% C- “The cooking comparison for Handling the Undead would be a sauce that’s broken, its elements having separated. There’s a genuine sense of lived-in sadness here, but this would-be elegy doesn't offer quite enough mesmeric insights to justify its somberness.” – AV Club Jun 6, 2024 Full Review Kim's Video (2023) 71% B- “A nonfiction work of swirling whimsy and rabbit-hole intrigue that eschews mere nostalgic appreciation in favor of a cockeyed hybrid approach that amuses and bemuses in equal measure.” – AV Club Apr 12, 2024 Full Review The Old Oak (2023) 82% B “A fine send-off for workhorse British director Ken Loach, this film is a sort of proudly unsexy piece of social realism portraiture whose delicate blend of poignancy and hopefulness mark it as a welcomely mature work for the remaining cineastes who care.” – AV Club Apr 12, 2024 Full Review Napoleon (2023) 58% B+ “Director Ridley Scott’s Napoleon sweeps aside this caricature, craftily sidestepping the pitfalls of many conventional biopics and delivering a highly involving work of psychological portraiture.” – AV Club Nov 21, 2023 Full Review The Killer (2023) 85% C+ “It’s not fair, of course, to stack up every film against the full canon of its maker. But there certainly doesn't feel much of substance here -- no level of thematic or narrative differentiation that would stake a grander claim to its reason for being.” – AV Club Oct 29, 2023 Full Review Fair Play (2023) 86% B “A film with a distinctive personality and an eagerness to dig around in the real-world sandbox and ask questions for which it knows there is no single, pat set of answers. Fair Play never stops making moves, which makes even its missteps feel refreshing.” – AV Club Oct 15, 2023 Full Review BlackBerry (2023) 97% B+ “Investing heartily in its story's personalities, and eschewing myth-making reverence or preciousness, BlackBerry's makers entertainingly frame their film as a workplace dramedy about industry gate-crashers rudely ejected from a party of their own staging.” – AV Club Oct 15, 2023 Full Review Theater Camp (2023) 86% B “Theater Camp succeeds by locating the sweet spot of a winning joke-pitch rhythm--brisk enough to nimbly shake off gags that don’t land, while measured enough to avoid coming off as manic and exhausting. ” – AV Club Jul 13, 2023 Full Review John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) 94% B- “An entertaining and somewhat unlikely series long poised between the expansive and the intimate. ” – AV Club Mar 23, 2023 Full Review Boston Strangler (2023) 67% C “The movie attempts to serve multiple narrative masters, but ends up coming across as vague and indistinct.” – AV Club Mar 16, 2023 Full Review Mindcage (2022) 18% D “Malkovich and Martin Lawrence aren't enough to elevate director Mauro Borrelli's throwback to 1990s serial killer films.” – AV Club Dec 16, 2022 Full Review Spirited (2022) 70% B- “While not without some issues, the movie lands as a modern-day fable whose colorfully packaged and exuberantly pitched life lessons carry an undeniable timeliness.” – AV Club Nov 10, 2022 Full Review Next Exit (2022) 80% B “Elfman’s script is... engaging throughout. It’s perceptive, in low-key ways, about how sometimes the only person who can reach or connect with us is someone hurt or adrift in the same manner.” – AV Club Nov 4, 2022 Full Review I'm Totally Fine (2022) 67% C- “It’s a movie that purports to root itself in grief, but instead wraps itself in such a cloak of wispy, noncommittal vagueness that virtually everything about it dissipates on contact.” – AV Club Nov 1, 2022 Full Review Luck (2022) 48% D+ “A movie that feels like a very colorful, moving instruction manual, in which things… just happen.” – AV Club Aug 5, 2022 Full Review Vengeance (2022) 82% B- “If the end result is not always completely successful, Novak crafts an alluringly confounding work that confirms his intelligence and thoughtfulness as a filmmaker.” – AV Club Jul 28, 2022 Full Review Code Name Banshee (2022) 0% D+ “An assassin tale which lacks interesting ideas about who its characters are, or even wish to be, Code Name Banshee is a cliché-driven, unappealing, rinse-and-repeat exercise in expended bullets, nothing more.” – AV Club Jul 16, 2022 Full Review
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