Jacob Oller
Film Editor at The A.V. Club
Film Editor @TheAVClub // Video Game Movie Expert // Southerner in Chicago
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17 hours ago |
avclub.com | Jacob Oller
What’s important, what’s tangible and visible in The Wind Will Carry Us, is the everyday life of this town and its people. From the young boy with whom the director forges a charming yet prickly friendship to the woman across the way whose ever-increasing brood of children becomes a wry punchline, these neighbors compose the majority of the film’s meaningful interactions.
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1 day ago |
avclub.com | Jacob Oller
“The call of the void” refers to the subconscious desire some people have to imagine their own death. To look over a ledge and wonder what it’d be like to jump. To run the garbage disposal and look at their fleshy, vulnerable hand. To speed down the road and gaze at oncoming traffic. These intrusive thoughts are warning signals from our brain outlining worst-case scenarios. But for a character in a Final Destination movie, these are far too simple.
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6 days ago |
avclub.com | Jacob Oller
Those who have fully consumed comedian Tim Robinson’s aggressive, khaki-colored blend of Kool-Aid will enjoy his first leading film role in Friendship. If one isn’t immersed in I Think You Should Leave and Detroiters, the experience may more lucidly feel like rejected sketch ideas stretched out to 97 minutes.
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6 days ago |
avclub.com | Jacob Oller
As the Hobbesian Glengarry Glen Ross returns to Broadway, David Mamet frees up a new crop of predatory men from blunt-force capitalism and sticks them in another of his frequent settings: prison. Mamet’s first film since 2008’s martial arts drama Redbelt, and his first since his hard heel turn over the last two decades into a born-again MAGA crank taken in by his own personal con man, Henry Johnson shows fewer signs of that radicalization than one might expect.
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6 days ago |
yahoo.com | Jacob Oller
Those who have fully consumed comedian Tim Robinson’s aggressive, khaki-colored blend of Kool-Aid will enjoy his first leading film role in Friendship. If one isn’t immersed in I Think You Should Leave and Detroiters, the experience may more lucidly feel like rejected sketch ideas stretched out to 97 minutes.
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