
Luke Hicks
Writer, Editor, Film Critic and Journalist at Freelance
film journalist, filmmaker | “Desert Window” | “The Last Q-tip” | words @thefilmstage @pastemagazine @lwlies ++ | luke.hicks.writes@gmail
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1 week ago |
thefilmstage.com | Luke Hicks
If there’s one thing you absolutely cannot miss in Kevin Macdonald’s electrifying ’70s-set New York City music documentary One to One: John & Yoko, it is, unsurprisingly, the music. Thanks to son Sean Ono Lennon’s supervision, the remastering of the iconic couple’s only full concert––and what would be John’s final performance, eight years before his assassination––sounds like an avalanche of near-mythical music history. And, as if hearing it anew isn’t enough, for the first time we can see it.
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1 month ago |
pastemagazine.com | Luke Hicks
In 2025, it’s hard to believe that Robert De Niro has left any actorly stone unturned. Or that he has professional goals. But, 62 years into an already legendary career, he’s still checking new boxes. For the first time, De Niro is playing both hero and villain in the same film: The Alto Knights, currently in theaters.
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1 month ago |
metacritic.com | Ryan Lattanzio |Luke Hicks |Peter Debruge |Alison Willmore
Baby Invasion has a clearer focus this time: It’s to make you, the viewer, feel bad, and often wanting to beg to the screen, “Please god let this end,” or perhaps more aptly, “end me.” Here is a filmmaker who, these days, resents his own audience. Here is a movie for no one. Read More
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1 month ago |
thefilmstage.com | Luke Hicks
For as much light as The Actor is bathed in, it’s equally shrouded in darkness. Duke Johnson’s solo directorial debutis a film of bleary sun and swallowing night and almost nothing in-between. It wouldn’t make sense to depict the in-between. That would be realistic, and The Actor is anything but real.
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1 month ago |
msn.com | Luke Hicks
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