Overstreet Archives: High Fidelity (2002)
Digging through the archives, I've found an old favorite and I'm taking it for a spin. Here's my original Year 2000 review of High Fidelity.
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Zhao Tao burns bright in Ash is Purest White
Jia Zhangke delivers a wildly ambitious epic of a gangster's girlfriend thrown overboard into Chinese capitalism's unmerciful storms. Go see it. (Caution: Part Two of this essay examines the film's confounding conclusion, so — spoilers!)
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Overstreet Archives: Shrek (2001)
Lo and behold—archaeologists digging deep in the Looking Closer archives have unearthed Overstreet's original 2001 review of Shrek.
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Chungking Express (1994): <500 Words
A brief reflection on Wong Kar-wai's Chungking Express.
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A Star is Born (2018)
Bradley Cooper's big remake of A Star is Born strums all those predictable chords so hard, all the strings start breaking.
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Ready Player One (2018)
Spielberg gets lost in nostalgia, serving up a flashy but frustrating contradiction.
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