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Luke Hicks

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Biography:

A New York City film journalist by way of Austin, TX, Luke is an arts enthusiast who received his master's studying film philosophy and ethics at Duke. He thinks every occasion should include one of the following: whiskey, coffee, gin, tea, beer, or basketball.

Reviews

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One to One: John & Yoko (2024) 89% “What could only be partially heard on Lennon鈥檚 posthumous 1986 album Live in New York City can now be seen and heard in crisp, clear beauty across one giant, riveting, unforgettable cinematic experience.” – The Film Stage Apr 11, 2025 Full Review The Actor (2025) 77% “The Actor is certainly indebted to some of modern cinema鈥檚 momentous mindfucks, but Johnson avoids the capital crime of imitation, delivering a fresh-yet-recognizable take on the microgenre” – The Film Stage Mar 12, 2025 Full Review The Monkey (2025) 78% “Most deaths are grisly, gruesome, shocking, funny, Perkins鈥� exaggerated display of violence another nod to Tarantino. And it鈥檚 not just physical violence. ” – The Film Stage Feb 21, 2025 Full Review Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2 (2024) 54% “For all its ambition and likeability, Chapter 2 often plays like prestige 온라인카지노추천 (that wouldn鈥檛 win awards)... but it鈥檚 thoroughly enjoyable 온라인카지노추천 at least.” – Little White Lies Jan 26, 2025 Full Review Pavements (2024) 97% “It captures the artistry, ingenuity and humor of its subject better than an encyclopedic history ever could 鈥� a music doc for whom success, in the spirit of Pavement, looks very different.” – Little White Lies Jan 26, 2025 Full Review Wolf Man (2025) 50% B- “ In no uncertain or un-literal terms, Wolf Man is about the hereditary horrors our parents pass down to us鈥撯€搕he same ones we unleash on our children鈥撯€揳nd our willingness, or lack thereof, to take responsibility for them, to kill them. ” – The Film Stage Jan 15, 2025 Full Review Santosh (2024) 100% B “The enigmatic screenplay devises a grey area so hazy you鈥檒l be going over it in your head for weeks, if not months, asking yourself what you would鈥檝e done in Santosh鈥檚 impossible situation.” – The Film Stage Dec 31, 2024 Full Review Wicked (2024) 87% C+ “It relegates its thematic strengths to the corner of ironically thoughtless family fun entertainment that seeks to please and assuage.” – The Film Stage Nov 20, 2024 Full Review My Undesirable Friends: Part I - Last Air in Moscow (2024) - - B+ “Through Loktev鈥檚 run-and-gun immersion in their world, we begin to understand how the groundwork is laid to propagandize and miseducate the masses, a huge swath of whom see straight through it. ” – The Film Stage Oct 17, 2024 Full Review Queer (2024) 77% 5.0/10 “By the end, so many disparate metaphors have forced their way into the story that it feels lost in its own menagerie, the film blending the life of Burroughs and Lee in a way that should鈥檝e been executed with more subtlety and tact or simply left out.” – Paste Magazine Oct 11, 2024 Full Review Viet and Nam (2024) 100% B+ “Minh Qu媒鈥檚 slow-cinema sensibilities are nothing short of spellbinding, the trance of rumination within reason enough to seek it out.” – The Film Stage Oct 7, 2024 Full Review Maria (2024) 75% 7.5/10 “Barring the occasional dragging sequence, the film is a trance throughout. It鈥檚 hard to stop watching Maria, to stop listening to La Callas, to leave her charming little makeshift family for too long.” – Paste Magazine Oct 3, 2024 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% 9/10 “[Any sluggish moments] quickly fade away in the presence of whatever comes next. And they really disappear in the blueprint of the film, which weaves conflicting and increasingly labyrinthine Jewish identities into its construction with masterful nuance.” – Paste Magazine Sep 30, 2024 Full Review 2073 (2024) 48% C “The preachy tone betrays the film, giving it a seedy, conspiratorial feel when there is nothing conspiratorial about it all鈥撯€搄ust plain, simple, broad, and necessary economic and political facts. ” – The Film Stage Sep 10, 2024 Full Review Joker: Folie 脿 Deux (2024) 31% B- “ It鈥檚 not that the film is so crazy that you have to see it (in fact, what鈥檚 crazy about it is that it isn鈥檛); rather that few have ever had a platform like Philips and Joaquin Phoenix to fool with expectations of the masses so blatantly.” – The Film Stage Sep 4, 2024 Full Review Baby Invasion (2024) 40% B “Baby Invasion鈥檚 feature watchability aside, Korine鈥檚 new chapter is a tectonic experimental development for the film industry, a step in the right direction towards uncharted territory by nature of exploration and originality alone. I” – The Film Stage Sep 3, 2024 Full Review The Order (2024) 92% B- “Kurzel moves his way through the formula like the seasoned pro he is, allowing even the skeptic to occasionally forget how worn the road of the typical thriller is these days. ” – The Film Stage Sep 3, 2024 Full Review Wolfs (2024) 67% C “A fast-fading star of a film that burns out much too soon.” – The Film Stage Sep 2, 2024 Full Review Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024) 51% 7.4/10 “Costner鈥檚 mammoth vision of frontier America can be breathtaking.” – Paste Magazine May 30, 2024 Full Review Rumours (2024) 75% C+ “This is a new wave of Maddin: still outlandish but with a tinge of approachability, less German Expressionist circus and more hysterical, unabated diplomatic masturbation. ” – The Film Stage May 29, 2024 Full Review All We Imagine as Light (2024) 100% B+ “That is the plain, profound beauty in Kapadia鈥檚 second feature: life lived and loved through its most essential elements, friendship chief among them.” – The Film Stage May 27, 2024 Full Review The Substance (2024) 89% B+ “A bizarre, virulent body horror that is as insanely violent as it is disturbing, The Substance is not for the faint of heart.” – The Film Stage May 23, 2024 Full Review Anora (2024) 93% A- “Anora is a riotous chase, a nonstop, clusterfuck, screaming-match rollercoaster that doesn鈥檛 let you breathe until the final minutes, when it also manages to stop your heart in still, spectacular silence.” – The Film Stage May 22, 2024 Full Review The Apprentice (2024) 83% B “What starts off gentle and dare-I-say friendly becomes more piercing, more incisive, and ultimately so searing in its indictment of Trump that I can only expect him to fight the film with litigious fervor.” – The Film Stage May 21, 2024 Full Review Emilia P茅rez (2024) 71% D “For as patently fierce as it tries to be, it has no bite, no intrigue, no grip on the viewer. ” – The Film Stage May 20, 2024 Full Review
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