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Matt Cipolla

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Matt Cipolla is a critic and essayist for hire who has worked with WGN Radio, Bright Wall/Dark Room, RogerEbert.com, The Film Stage, Crooked Marquee, and more. He's also a member of the Chicago Film Critics Association, and he firmly believes that ".gif" is pronounced as "jiff."

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Seed of Chucky (2004) 37% “Calling Seed of Chucky silly is an understatement. However, it's also one of the most radical studio films of the aughts: a distillation of Camp; a piece about performance; and, with both, a self-aware tale of gender.” – RogerEbert.com Nov 14, 2024 Full Review Dìdi (2024) 96% B- “Dìdi is far more attuned to its depictions of heritage and code-switching than the people in Chris’ family, who function more as dressing until the script needs more from them.” – The Film Stage Jul 29, 2024 Full Review Longlegs (2024) 86% C “By living and dying on tame procedural, Longlegs fails to evoke any strong emotion. ” – The Film Stage Jul 8, 2024 Full Review Aggro Dr1ft (2023) 41% 7.3/10 “No, it isn’t a grand deconstruction of semiotics. It is, however, something about what is or isn’t art, and it works in that regard. Whether or not it’s “good” is another discussion altogether.” – The Spool Jun 12, 2024 Full Review Ghostlight (2024) 99% 6.9/10 “How on-the-nose the concept is is another issue. And yet it mostly works, thanks in part to the movie’s tonal and technical normalcy.” – The Spool Jun 12, 2024 Full Review Ennio (2021) 91% C+ “Ennio can be dry at its worst, and while Massimo Quaglia and Annalisa Schillaci edit it breathlessly, Tornatore’s approach is too simplistic to make much impression. One can’t help but feel that reading this information would often yield the same result.” – The Film Stage Feb 7, 2024 Full Review Napoleon (2023) 58% “It’s one thing for a movie to not care for human insight. It’s another for it to fail to engage with conflict in any meaningful way, inside or out.” – The Spool Dec 15, 2023 Full Review The Zone of Interest (2023) 93% 98/100 “The Zone of Interest has leveled me like few things ever have.” – The Spool Dec 11, 2023 Full Review The Killer (2023) 85% “What exists on the page reads as isolated, yet Fincher and Fassbender play it as internal, even intimate. ” – The Spool Nov 10, 2023 Full Review Priscilla (2023) 84% “Coppola fleshes out a straightforward narrative with...visual moments of insight.” – The Spool Nov 1, 2023 Full Review Silver Dollar Road (2023) 82% “[Director Raoul] Peck does too little to establish the logistics of Adams Creek’s pursuits or the legal loopholes at play.” – The Spool Oct 19, 2023 Full Review Flora and Son (2023) 93% “Flora and Son?can do a few things well, but it doesn’t do many of them simultaneously.?” – The Spool Sep 20, 2023 Full Review Everybody Loves Jeanne (2022) 100% “Perhaps Devaux’s best decision here is to forgo maturity by and large. The film may be slight in the end, but as for that superficiality it fears? It avoids it, and it seems that’s all that matters.” – The Spool Jul 30, 2023 Full Review Theater Camp (2023) 86% C “Theater Camp’s hyperactivity borders impenetrable for stretches, unwilling to place a stake in its ground narratively or temporally to accentuate the humor. ” – The Film Stage Jul 12, 2023 Full Review The Doom Generation (1995) 55% “In The Doom Generation’s America, the outsider is untethered to reality. Fantasy colors its spurts of rage and chaos, an amoral ejection of the physical and emotional.” – The Spool Jun 16, 2023 Full Review Chile '76 (2022) 91% “It’s not a perfect film, but it’s a deft one. If anything’s for certain, Martelli is a director to watch for.” – The Spool Jun 12, 2023 Full Review The Starling Girl (2023) 92% “The Starling Girl?reads as unable to trust the impact of whatever irascibility runs through it.” – The Spool May 11, 2023 Full Review Scream VI (2023) 77% B “As a return to form for Scream, this is a sigh of relief––notwithstanding some key issues, VI has a freewheeling sense of lunacy, and it’s way too fun to decry. ” – The Film Stage Mar 8, 2023 Full Review Lux ?terna (2019) 64% “The spontaneous “poetry” of Lux Aeterna—an extrapolation of sorts of his previous film, Climax—lives on a prosaic approach.” – The Spool Jun 26, 2022 Full Review Control - Love Will Tear Us Apart (2007) 88% “If suicidality wavers through a spectrum of solipsism and obsequity, Control knows existence as performance.” – The Spool May 18, 2022 Full Review Scream (2022) 76% C “Scream takes some risks, some of which are truly daring. It's head-spinning, then, that it could still come off as so unceremonious throughout.” – The Film Stage Jan 13, 2022 Full Review Nightmare Alley (2021) 80% “As a story, there's such little idea of what it truly is, losing its sense of both the class struggle at the heart of its thesis and the America that continues to inform it.” – The Spool Dec 13, 2021 Full Review House of Gucci (2021) 62% C “Despite the reasons House of Gucci doesn't work, none are damning enough to make a bad movie. It's forgettable, sometimes playing like the sort of cable-온라인카지노추천 fare that displaced these tales from the silver screen over the past decade.” – The Film Stage Nov 22, 2021 Full Review Procession (2021) 98% “Procession, while effective at points, is too thematically and logistically uneven in some of its key discussions.” – The Spool Nov 19, 2021 Full Review The Souvenir Part II (2021) 90% “As experienced, life is hard, misty, and messy. As executed, The Souvenir Part II is similar in order to complement its metatext emotionally and thematically.” – The Spool Nov 5, 2021 Full Review
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