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Joshua Polanski

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Joshua Polanski is a film and culture writer based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. His interests include the technical elements of filmmaking & exhibition, slow & digital cinemas, cinematic sexuality, as well as Baltic, East Asian, & Middle Eastern film.

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The Blue Gardenia (1953) 85% “The Blue Gardenia challenges [the] narrative of complacency and Lang’s supposed wont to “sleepwalking through history.”” – Midwest Film Journal May 4, 2025 Full Review Sinners (2025) 97% “[Ryan] Coogler gets dangerously close to the horrifying center of American culture over the course of the single night — close enough for Sinners to dance with America’s original sin.” – There Were No Gods Left May 4, 2025 Full Review iHostage (2025) “Despite such concerted efforts...these concessions to pluralistic imaginings of Amsterdam do not distract from the fundamental Islamophobic anxiety that drives [the film], and the deluge of other copaganda gracing screens big and small in our present age.” – In Review Online May 3, 2025 Full Review Brother (1991) “A travel film with a defying political undercurrent.” – D Movies Apr 23, 2025 Full Review Madame Butterfly (1919) “Harakiri argues for a thematic interrogation of [Fritz Lang's] films in isolation from the naughty side of his biography.” – Midwest Film Journal Apr 6, 2025 Full Review Leila and the Wolves (1984) “Leila and the Wolves... holds a special place within that tradition of boundary-pushing Leftist filmmaking from the Arab Levant.” – In Review Online Apr 3, 2025 Full Review The Three Musketeers (2011) 27% “As caffeinated as 21st-century filmmaking gets.” – Midwest Film Journal Apr 2, 2025 Full Review Maria's Silence (2024) “How much more powerful would the imagery have been had it been used to funnel the film to the present rather than to avoid it intentionally? ” – Boston Hassle Mar 10, 2025 Full Review While the City Sleeps (1956) 91% “The newsroom and the relationships between the newspaper men and women are the beating heart of While the City Sleeps.” – Midwest Film Journal Mar 10, 2025 Full Review In the Lost Lands (2025) 25% “The sort of world one wishes they could give Ted Cruz a one-way ticket to.” – There Were No Gods Left Mar 10, 2025 Full Review Flow (2024) 97% “The success of Flow would be impossible without its stunning and unique animation style.” – Boston Hassle Mar 3, 2025 Full Review Pompeii (2014) 27% “One of the greatest cinematic achievements of the 21st century.” – Midwest Film Journal Mar 3, 2025 Full Review Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) 70% “Only Lang could do Lang. And sometimes he did it better than others.” – Midwest Film Journal Feb 28, 2025 Full Review Drowning Dry (2024) 94% “The structure will jar with many viewers. And that’s probably for the better, since tragedy too jars those who it pesters.” – Boston Hassle Feb 28, 2025 Full Review Is It Easy to Be Young? (1986) “A staple in Baltic cinema.” – Boston Hassle Feb 28, 2025 Full Review Orenda (2025) “The irony, then, is that though Orenda is by no means a bad film and in fact mightily impresses in moments, its inconsistency undermines testimony of any genuine orenda.” – In Review Online Feb 7, 2025 Full Review Star Trek: Section 31 (2025) 20% “Those who come to Star Trek: Section 31 with nothing but fond memories and fuzzy feel-goodery in their hearts for Star Trek: Discovery will find little to redeem this Michelle Yeoh as Philippa Georgiou spin-off.” – In Review Online Feb 4, 2025 Full Review Lovable (2022) “The highlight of Lovable is undoubtedly [Kārlis Arnolds] Avots’ lead performance.” – Boston Hassle Jan 19, 2025 Full Review Man Hunt (1941) 87% “Impossibly beautiful image[s] wasted on such an insignificant romance.” – Midwest Film Journal Jan 5, 2025 Full Review The People's Joker (2022) 96% “"The People's Joker" is well on its way to being a nail in the superhero coffin the same way "Blazing Saddles" was for Westerns or "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" for musician biopics.” – Bay Area Reporter Dec 24, 2024 Full Review Nickel Boys (2024) 91% “Nickel Boys is simultaneously a machine for empathy — driven by the film’s use of first person POV and tight aspect ratio — and distanced with experimental and stylized pillow shots of the engine of history revving up in the background.” – There Were No Gods Left Dec 11, 2024 Full Review A Complete Unknown (2024) 82% “Popifies the only songwriter to ever win the Nobel Prize in Literature. ” – There Were No Gods Left Dec 11, 2024 Full Review Fez Summer '55 (2023) “There is no ideological backing or agitprop motivating Fez Summer ‘55. It’s a story of simple good guys and bad guys. Of course, in military occupations there are good guys and bad guys and it is that simple. ” – Boston Hassle Dec 4, 2024 Full Review Yohanna (2024) 4/5 “Demands the viewer leans closer to the screen in a shared pain for the forsaken nun.” – D Movies Dec 4, 2024 Full Review Doombung: The Puddle (2024) “Lee Dong-ju’s film doesn’t always work and that’s okay because even when it doesn’t work, Doombung still shows originality.” – Offscreen Dec 4, 2024 Full Review
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