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Robert Horton

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Biography:

Robert Horton is a member of the National Society of Film Critics, and the longtime film critic for the Herald (Everett, WA), and Seattle Weekly. He is a regular contributor to Film Comment magazine, and the author of Frankenstein (Columbia University Press) and Billy Wilder: Interviews (U. Press of Mississippi). He also co-authored the graphic novel Rotten (Moonstone Books). He has been a Fulbright Specialist (Romania, 2016); adjunct professor at Seattle University; the curator of the "Magic Lantern" film program at the Frye Art Museum in Seattle; instructor at the Architectural Association in London; past president of the Seattle Film Society; and a speaker with Smithsonian Journeys. He served two terms as a speaker with Humanities Washington, traveling Washington state and lecturing on film history. He is currently a board member at Scarecrow Video and leads the yearlong Scarecrow Academy project there. As a member of FIPRESCI (International Society of Film Critics) he has served on juries at film festivals in Odesa, Ukraine; Ljubljana, Slovenia; and Seattle. His work is linked at the website The Crop Duster (roberthorton.wordpress.com).

Favorites:

30 fave films, in chronological order: Un Chien Andalou; M; Monkey Business (Marx Bros. version); Freaks; The Wizard of Oz: The Great Dictator; Cat People (Jacques Tourneur version); A Matter of Life and Death; The Lady From Shanghai; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; The Third Man; The Quiet Man; Sansho the Bailiff; The Night of the Hunter; Rebel Without a Cause; Rio Bravo; Some Like it Hot; North by Northwest; Jules and Jim; Jason and the Argonauts; Help!; Masculin-Feminin; The Wild Bunch; Two English Girls; Duel; Chinatown; Barry Lyndon; The American Friend; Cutter's Way; Local Hero.

Location:

Seattle

Official Website:

http://roberthorton.wordpress.com

Reviews

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Sinners (2025) 98% 2/4 “I feel almost churlish saying the movie is all over the place when "all over the place" is clearly a goal. But the flailing genre-mashing seen here plays closer to the chaos of Everything Everywhere All at Once than the surgical attack of Get Out,” – The Scarecrow Apr 25, 2025 Full Review When Fall Is Coming (2024) 95% 3.5/4 “Almost perfectly balanced between Douglas Sirk-style melodrama, near-subliminal humor, and out-and-out camp. In short, Ozon is getting close to prime Almodovar territory.” – The Scarecrow Apr 11, 2025 Full Review The Penguin Lessons (2024) 80% 2/4 “With Coogan lending his acerbic persona (and presumably a collection of one-liners) to the project, The Penguin Lessons has moments that lift it out of the realm of formula.” – The Scarecrow Mar 28, 2025 Full Review The Apprentice (2024) 83% 3/4 “The Apprentice doesn't craft its tale with subtlety, but what exactly is the point of delicacy in a world where the rise of Donald Trump has destroyed the usefulness of subtlety, or really any kind of satire? ” – The Scarecrow Feb 14, 2025 Full Review Wolf Man (2025) 50% 1.5/4 “"The starkness of the setting leads to monotony, and the themes are so prominent they remove any real mystery from the air."” – The Scarecrow Jan 17, 2025 Full Review A Complete Unknown (2024) 82% 3.5/4 “Does something that is unconventional, maybe even radical, in this age of popular art that must explain genius. It does not explain.” – The Scarecrow Dec 27, 2024 Full Review The Brutalist (2024) 93% 3.5/4 “There are many ideas in The Brutalist, and they do go on a bit. My first reaction to this big film is that it feels more literary in its conception than cinematic.” – The Scarecrow Dec 20, 2024 Full Review Trap (2024) 57% 3/4 “This suspense mechanism is so deftly handled it almost brings tears to your eyes, at least if you have any feeling for film form.” – The Scarecrow Aug 23, 2024 Full Review Last Summer (2023) 86% 3.5/4 “Suggests that despite Catherine Breillat's reputation (this is a director known for using sex in cinema like a French chef lays on the butter in an omelet), she is less interested in sex as a subject than existential discontent.” – The Scarecrow Aug 9, 2024 Full Review The Way We Speak (2024) 94% 3/4 “Fabian is terrific here. He sprays the dialogue around with abandon, and he has the on-his-toes balance of an athlete. In this role, you never doubt Simon’s need for validation, nor his buzzy self-regard.” – The Crop Duster Jul 22, 2024 Full Review Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F (2024) 67% 1/4 “A grisly spectacle.” – The Scarecrow Jul 12, 2024 Full Review Green Border (2023) 93% 3.5/4 “These stories, and the dramatic incidents, would be powerful in a lesser film, as a sort of Grapes of Wrath of modern Europe. But Green Border is abuzz with cinematic force, propulsive in its rhythm and haunting in its images. ” – The Scarecrow Jul 5, 2024 Full Review Kinds of Kindness (2024) 71% 3/4 “Freakily enjoyable, a vision of a cruel world rendered in oblique strokes, its humor erupting in gasps.” – The Scarecrow Jun 28, 2024 Full Review In Our Day (2023) 100% 3/4 “A slim and wistful entry in Hong's work, a modest example of his offhand style. But it has its moments. ” – The Scarecrow Jun 14, 2024 Full Review Tuesday (2023) 76% 2.5/4 “To be a truly funny actor invariably requires a level of honesty, and Louis-Dreyfus brings an unvarnished plainness to this film's most emotional scenes—and does it without the need to let you know she's "acting."” – The Scarecrow Jun 14, 2024 Full Review Coup de Chance (2023) 83% 2.5/4 “Not a dud, but it's not a return to form, either. ” – The Scarecrow May 31, 2024 Full Review Evil Does Not Exist (2023) 91% 3/4 “The movie is a tough go, but it's impressive, and defiant in playing by its own rules.” – The Scarecrow May 24, 2024 Full Review Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) 90% 3/4 “The Wasteland has never looked bleaker than it does in the finish, stripped of its boss vehicles and steampunk bric-a-brac and whackadoodle characters—here it's just Furiosa and Dementus, talking through existential truths and grinning into the void.” – The Scarecrow May 24, 2024 Full Review I Saw the 온라인카지노추천 Glow (2024) 84% 3/4 “Sequences are punctuated with pop songs, in a late-90s way that seems legitimate even if clichéd, as though we are actually watching a movie made in the Donnie Darko era.” – The Scarecrow May 17, 2024 Full Review The Crazies (1973) 70% 3.5/4 “The movie feels like picking up a newspaper from the early 70s and scanning the downbeat headlines. (Truffaut said that The Night of the Hunter was like “A horrifying news item retold by small children”; The Crazies is a newscast delivered by the insane.)” – The Scarecrow May 3, 2024 Full Review Civil War (2024) 81% 2.5/4 “Some of the film's ideas are provocative, some are standard-issue dystopian, some are vague. But what's unforgivable is the flatness of so much of the staging.” – The Scarecrow Apr 12, 2024 Full Review Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (2023) 97% 3.5/4 “Has some of the method and free-roaming curiosity of Godard's movies, and about the same amount of interest in following conventional storytelling modes.” – The Scarecrow Apr 5, 2024 Full Review Love Lies Bleeding (2024) 94% 2.5/4 “At some point you just have to roll with the confident daftness of the thing.” – The Scarecrow Mar 15, 2024 Full Review Dune: Part Two (2024) 92% 3/4 “Part Two is not merely an improvement but almost a different film. Villeneuve's imagination is unleashed here in a way that frequently thrills, even if the actual storytelling is sometimes dutiful; it's more Jodorowsky than Lucas. ” – The Scarecrow Mar 1, 2024 Full Review Drive-Away Dolls (2024) 63% 2/4 “Doesn't have the uncanny touch of the best Coen films, nor the gravity that tugs at even their most ridiculous premises. It just hurtles at you, breathless, insisting on its transgressive zing.” – The Scarecrow Feb 26, 2024 Full Review
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