Steve Pond
Steve Pond
Steve Pond’s inside look at the artistry and insanity of the awards race, drawn from more than three decades of obsessively chronicling the Oscars and the entertainment industry.
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‘Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies’ Film Review: The Naked Truth?
The filmmakers fit 150 different clips of on-screen exposure into the two hour movie, but they aren’t as completist when it comes to issues surrounding nudity
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‘Spree’ Film Review: Joe Keery Starts Out as an Annoying Loser and Goes Downhill From There
Director Eugene Kotlyarenko’s satiric blast of cinematic hyperactivity is notable mostly for its messy energy
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‘Apocalypse ’45’ Film Review: World War II Documentary Is an Elegy to Those Who Were Lost
Director Erik Nelson finds a way to trade in the typical war-doc toolkit for something more personal and more striking
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‘Project Power’ Film Review: Let’s All Get High on Jamie Foxx’s Superhero Pills
Foxx and Joseph Gordon-Levitt star in Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman’s imaginative, garish, occasionally corny and generally entertaining riff on the superhero genre
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‘Boys State’ Review: Even Teen Politics Is a Dirty Business in Sundance-Winning Documentary
Directors Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine’s film pays lip service to finding common ground but winds up illustrating how impossible that has become
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‘The Tax Collector’ Film Review: Shia LaBeouf Got His Torso Tattooed for This?
David Ayer’s brutal drama about gangs in South Central Los Angeles trots out a lot of posturing and a lot of gang-movie clichés, but flails instead of giving us much reason to care
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‘Insecure,’ ‘For Life’ to Receive Top Awards at African American Film Critics’ TV Honors
Viola Davis, Sterling K. Brown, Jeremy Pope and Laura Harrier will receive acting honors at virtual ceremony
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‘An American Pickle’ Film Review: Seth Rogen Gets Sentimental in Mild Fish-Out-of-Water Comedy
This surprisingly subdued and sentimental riff on Rip Van Winkle meets “Being There” is probably not the best use of Rogen’s particular skill set
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‘She Dies Tomorrow’ Film Review: If You’re Feeling Dread Now, Wait Until You See This
Amy Seimetz’s dark drama is a movie about existential panic that happens to be coming out at a time of existential panic
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How the Go-Go’s Got No Respect From Rolling Stone Magazine
With a documentary on the pioneering all-female band premiering on Showtime, here’s a look back at a career pinnacle that turned sour
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‘The Shadow of Violence’ Film Review: Cosmo Jarvis Might Break Your Nose and Your Heart
First-time feature director Nick Rowland has managed to make “The Shadow of Violence” a quiet and affecting character study in the moments when it’s not being brutal and bloody
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‘The Fight’ Film Review: ACLU Documentary Is the Stirring Story of a War Against Donald Trump
For those who consider the current administration a dangerous one, “The Fight” is a chronicle of resistance in a crucial battleground, the courts
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‘Black Is King’ Film Review: Beyoncé Gets Extravagant With Opulent Riff on ‘The Lion King’
This visual feast based on Beyoncé’s 2019 album “The Lion King: The Gift” finds its moments of glory in the strength of its images, which are more arresting than the story or the subtext
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‘Rebuilding Paradise’ Film Review: Ron Howard Looks for Hope in Documentary About Destruction
While the film about the devastating Northern California wildfire reaches for moments of healing and rejuvenation, it’s easy to walk away from it feeling anger and and loss
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Toronto Film Festival Lineup to Include Films Directed by Regina King, Halle Berry
Films by Werner Herzog, Chloe Zhao, Viggo Mortensen, Mira Nair and Frederick Wiseman will also be part of the scaled-down Canadian festival
