Clint Worthington – Consequence

Black Box Diaries Review: A Journalist Bravely Fights for Justice in Uncompromising #MeToo Doc

Clint Worthington — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 16:00:07 +0000

This review is part of our coverage of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. The Pitch: “Close your eyes and take a deep breath if you need to.” This disclaimer, written in gentle cursive in the opening seconds of documentary Black Box Diaries, is journalist and filmmaker Shiori Ito’s empathetic content warning to…

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Sundance Review: Good One Tests The Limits of Familial Trust

Clint Worthington — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 18:28:23 +0000

This review is part of our coverage of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. The Pitch: Sam (Lily Collias) is wise beyond her years, a 17-year-old girl with a solid head on her shoulders and an innate ability to notice and observe those around her. She’s set to go on a three-day…

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Stress Positions Puts John Early In the Middle of Pandemic Hell: Sundance Review

Clint Worthington — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 22:46:16 +0000

Theda Hammel's acerbic queer comedy stars John Early, crumbling under the stress of COVID and other issues.

Stress Positions Puts John Early In the Middle of Pandemic Hell: Sundance Review
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Paul Mescal and Saoirse Ronan Fail to Connect In Milquetoast Sci-Fi Romantic Drama Foe: Review

Clint Worthington — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 16:15:41 +0000

This review is part of our coverage of the 2023 New York Film Festival. It has been republished for the film’s Prime Video release. The Pitch: It’s 2065, and artificial intelligence has made most jobs obsolete (much like another recent theatrical release). Moreover, climate change is killing crops and displacing millions of…

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True Detective: Night Country Review: An Invigorating Reinvention of HBO’s Hit Crime Series

Clint Worthington — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 15:00:31 +0000

2024's first great season of television is already here.

True Detective: Night Country Review: An Invigorating Reinvention of HBO’s Hit Crime Series
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Glen Powell and Sydney Sweeney Coast Through the Rom-Com Anyone But You: Review

Clint Worthington — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 14:00:19 +0000

The Pitch: It’s your classic love story: chiseled-jaw stockbroker Ben (Glen Powell) meet-cutes flibbertigibbet law student Bea (Sydney Sweeney) in a coffee shop one day, leading to a beautiful day of casual walks through the park, sizzling conversation (and grilled cheese sandwiches), and a cozy night falling asleep just talking, you guys.…

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The Creator Is Dazzling, Original Sci-Fi That Shows Us Nothing Unique: Review

Clint Worthington — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 17:00:29 +0000

More Elysium Than Blade Runner is the verdict on Gareth Edwards' original sci-fi epic.

The Creator Is Dazzling, Original Sci-Fi That Shows Us Nothing Unique: Review
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Zack Snyder Offers a Slick But Derivative Sci-Fi Epic in Part 1 of Rebel Moon: Review

Clint Worthington — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 16:54:45 +0000

Zack Snyder's underbaked riff on Star Wars and Seven Samurai, featuring every sci-fi influence under the sun.

Zack Snyder Offers a Slick But Derivative Sci-Fi Epic in Part 1 of Rebel Moon: Review
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Why We’re So Obsessed With A Christmas Story 40 Years Later

Clint Worthington — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 14:05:37 +0000

Suppose you’re a red-blooded American growing up anywhere near a television for the last thirty years. In that case, chances are A Christmas Story is at least a tangential part of your holiday memories. Regardless of your thoughts on the film itself — I think it’s perfectly fine, if exceedingly…

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The Iron Claw Paints a Grand American Tragedy In and Out of the Ring: Review

Clint Worthington — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 14:00:01 +0000

The Pitch: The Von Erichs were one of professional wrestling’s greatest dynasties, dominating the ring in the 1970s and 1980s with the gift of good branding (a group of tight-knit brothers and their legendary wrestler father), killer kayfabe, and their signature move, the “iron claw.” But outside the ring, the Von…

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Todd Haynes Twists the Knife With His Sizzling, Uncomfortable May December: Review

Clint Worthington — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 16:00:43 +0000

Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore circle each other in this sizzling tale of moral ambiguity.

Todd Haynes Twists the Knife With His Sizzling, Uncomfortable May December: Review
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Netflix’s Obliterated Is Fun, But Only in Small Doses: Review

Clint Worthington — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 08:01:39 +0000

The Pitch: It’s not hard to imagine the elevator pitch for Netflix’s new action-comedy show Obliterated: What if The Hangover had stakes beyond a missing bachelor? Dutifully, and with raunchy relish, Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg, and Josh Heald, the minds behind Cobra Kai — another Netflix show that valorizes the oo-rah fuck-yeah media…

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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters Has Too Many Humans, Not Enough Godzilla: Review

Clint Worthington — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 16:00:01 +0000

The Pitch: Of all the post-MCU multiverses that studios scrambled to build after the success of Marvel’s The Avengers in 2012, Legendary’s MonsterVerse has strangely held up the strongest over time. It helps, of course, that its foundations are built on the same kind of shared universe conceit as the original…

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Ridley Scott Concocts Another Bloated Historical Epic in Napoleon: Review

Clint Worthington — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 14:00:09 +0000

The Pitch: Ridley Scott is no stranger to the historical epic, nor is he shy about turning those sumptuous tales of big-budget Old Hollywood grandeur into withering takedowns of the power-hungry figures at their center. But sometimes, Scott’s ambition requires the space to execute it: Kingdom of Heaven notoriously flopped with critics…

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Emerald Fennell Soaks in Sexy Boys and Sleepy Class Satire in Saltburn: Review

Clint Worthington — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 16:40:52 +0000

The Pitch: It’s 2006: MGMT plays on the radio, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest tears up the box office, and young Oliver Quick (Barry Keoghan) arrives at Oxford to begin his studies. He’s shy, awkward, unassuming; while the rich kids party and carouse around him, the unconnected “scholarship kid”…

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