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Michael Barrett

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Trilogy of Terror (1975) 85% 8/10 “The trilogy works as a whole because its contrasts complement its consistencies, thanks to Black and the writers, and because producer-director Curtis is good at his job.” – PopMatters Mar 13, 2025 Full Review Demon Pond (1979) “Demon Pond belongs to a later series of films indebted to traditional Japanese theatrical styles, presenting them without apology in terms of cinematic artifice. ” – PopMatters Nov 6, 2024 Full Review Red Mountain (1951) “Red Mountain is really addressing contemporary America more than the Civil War...” – PopMatters Oct 2, 2024 Full Review Botany Bay (1953) “What we have demonstrates a magnetic, resilient, somewhat sad presence whose popularity can easily be grasped. Alan Ladd makes us feel for his unfairly wounded characters, and we love him.” – PopMatters Oct 2, 2024 Full Review Fata morgana (1965) “The Barcelona School made avant-garde films nobody could understand, such as the pop art 1960s mash-up, Fata Morgana. But it sure looks good.” – PopMatters Sep 20, 2024 Full Review Five Minutes to Live (1961) “...a twist so fantastically unlikely and macabre that it transcends reason...” – PopMatters Sep 20, 2024 Full Review Bwana Devil (1952) “While Bwana Devil was his most technically ambitious, it doesn't compare in atmosphere and drama to the others. However, like them, it's about angst-ridden, doom-laden characters.” – PopMatters Aug 31, 2024 Full Review Time Masters (1982) 100% “René Laloux’s conformity-challenging animated sci-fi The Time Masters resonates with Hayao Miyazaki films and Jack Vance novels.” – PopMatters Aug 9, 2024 Full Review Victims of Sin (1950) 100% “In Emilio Fernández’s Victims of Sin, a galaxy of important Mexican film and music artists collaborate on a tale of mambo music, martyred mothers, and melodrama.” – PopMatters Jul 24, 2024 Full Review Six in Paris (1965) 76% “That sounds modern, but Godard’s story isn’t constructed by chance. Rather, chance is used as a narrative device for the heroine...” – PopMatters Jul 24, 2024 Full Review Jennie: Wife/Child (1968) “Instead of feeling offended by Hollywood stereotypes, Southerners got the joke and enjoyed it, perhaps more than outsiders. This point is worth thinking about.” – PopMatters Jun 28, 2024 Full Review Common Law Wife (1963) “Think of mainstream Hollywood making such items in the '60s, and your brain will explode; that's why indies are important.” – PopMatters Jun 28, 2024 Full Review Time of the Heathen (1961) “Time of the Heathen is a nightmarish, hyper-edited, avant-garde freak-out as atomic angst and racial woes wend their way toward Shakespearean tragedy.” – PopMatters May 20, 2024 Full Review You Never Can Tell (1951) “Fantasy, comedy, romance, reincarnation, animals and murder are ingredients for You Never Can Tell, a whimsical story with spoofs of film noir.” – PopMatters May 11, 2024 Full Review Man-Eater of Kumaon (1948) “Playing Lali with an understated dignity, Page shows a great rapport with Sabu in Man-Eater of Kumaon.” – PopMatters Mar 11, 2024 Full Review Comanche Station (1960) 100% “As always, the staging of extended shots is masterful in their simplicity.” – PopMatters Sep 13, 2023 Full Review Ride Lonesome (1959) 90% “Wait till Ride Lonesome shows its hand. Boone utters a line that could summarize the Ranown films: “Funny, ain’t it, how a thing can seem one way and then turn out altogether somethin’ else.”” – PopMatters Sep 13, 2023 Full Review Buchanan Rides Alone (1958) 100% “...that makes sense in light of darkly humorous moments like Pecos’ eulogy for the man he shot. Those have the Kennedy touch...” – PopMatters Sep 13, 2023 Full Review The Tall T (1957) 100% “We get a sense of lonely camaraderie laced with suspicion and danger in the middle of nowhere.” – PopMatters Sep 13, 2023 Full Review Seven Men From Now (1956) 100% “All his films are over before the 80-minute mark, sometimes before 75, and that’s something of a lost art...” – PopMatters Sep 13, 2023 Full Review Westbound (1959) “The heroes and villains in Boetticher's films are less mighty opposites than mighty complements.” – PopMatters Sep 13, 2023 Full Review Decision at Sundown (1957) 100% “The script explodes the concept of a man fighting for his wife’s honor and perhaps reverses it.” – PopMatters Sep 13, 2023 Full Review Last and First Men (2020) 100% 9/10 “Last and First Men, an astounding and unusual art film, science fiction meditation, and visual symphony, is the first and only film created by the late Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannson.” – PopMatters Aug 17, 2023 Full Review Inland Empire (2006) 72% “Now that we’re awash in time loops and other realities, filmgoers are primed for three hours of David Lynch’s reality and identity-questioning film, Inland Empire.” – PopMatters Aug 7, 2023 Full Review Dear Mr. Brody (2021) 97% “Among many topics raised in Dear Mr. Brody, the story of a man who gave away his ill-gotten money for need, not greed, is how media and money blur our already imperfect perception of mental illness.” – PopMatters Jun 16, 2023 Full Review
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