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Edwin Arnaudin and Bruce C. Steele are film critics located in Asheville, North Carolina. They are affiliated with several organizations, including the Southeastern Film Critics Association (SEFCA), the North Carolina Film Critics Association (NCFCA), and The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA). Alongside their work reviewing local film releases for Asheville Movies, they create joint film critiques under the name Asheville Movie Guys. Additionally, they organize screenings and discussions of new films twice a month at the Fine Arts Theatre.

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Asheville Movies - Snow Knights

3 weeks ago | ashevillemovies.com | Edwin Arnaudin

Residing somewhere below the double feature prestige of Barbenheimer and ConclaVenom is Snow Knights, the completely inappropriate and not recommended twofer of Disney’s live-action Snow White and — speaking of double trouble — The Alto Knights, a mob drama featuring Robert De Niro playing two characters.
Asheville Movies - The Electric State

1 month ago | ashevillemovies.com | Edwin Arnaudin

“What if Ready Player One — but bad?”That seems to have been the pitch for The Electric State, a confounding failure by directors Anthony and Joe Russo, whose post-MCU output has gone from mediocre (Cherry) to thrilling (The Gray Man) and now to career-worst.
Asheville Movies - Opus

1 month ago | ashevillemovies.com | Edwin Arnaudin

An impressive feature directorial debut, Mark Anthony Green’s Opus features big names and even bigger ideas. Packing significant Midsommar, The Menu, and Blink Twice vibes of being at a mysterious, gorgeous, remote spot that’s a bit too good to be true, the dark comedy follows struggling journalist Ariel Ecton (Ayo Edebiri, The Bear) as she attends the exclusive release party for reclusive recording artist Alfred Moretti’s first album in decades.
Asheville Movies — Interview: 'Filmspotting' co-founders Adam Kempenaar and Sam Van Hallgren

1 month ago | ashevillemovies.com | Edwin Arnaudin

In July 2005, my tech-savvy dad told me about something called “podcasts” that Apple had recently added to iTunes.
Asheville Movies — Captain America: Brave New World

2 months ago | ashevillemovies.com | Edwin Arnaudin

Similar to Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame succeeding under immense pressure to conclude a decade of MCU films in epic style, Captain America: Brave New World overcomes its own set of challenging obstacles in laudable fashion.
Asheville Movies - Flight Risk

2 months ago | ashevillemovies.com | Edwin Arnaudin

Make no mistake: Flight Risk is not a good movie. But it is an extremely entertaining one, despite being repeatedly handicapped by a debut screenwriter and a director shaking off more rust than a junkyard car. That filmmaker is none other than Oscar winner Mel Gibson, behind the camera for the first time since Hacksaw Ridge (2016).
Asheville Movies - Presence

2 months ago | ashevillemovies.com | Edwin Arnaudin

Though a new Steven Soderbergh movie is cause for celebration and it’s laudable that the director/cinematographer/editor keeps trying new things, not all of his experiments are successful. Joining such failures as The Good German and The Girlfriend Experience is Presence, a high-concept horror film that never quite lives up to its intriguing premise.
Asheville Movies - The Brutalist

Jan 20, 2025 | ashevillemovies.com | Edwin Arnaudin

No other director has come as close to making a Paul Thomas Anderson film than Brady Corbet with The Brutalist. Pulling primarily from the stark wonder of There Will Be Blood and The Master, this stunning epic about second chances in the new world ultimately most reflects the Vox Lux filmmaker’s own cinematic ambitions and firmly establishes him as a talent to watch.
Asheville Movies - The Last Showgirl

Jan 11, 2025 | ashevillemovies.com | Edwin Arnaudin

The best film by a Coppola since On the Rocks (2020), Gia Coppola's The Last Showgirl nevertheless takes Best Picture level material and dilutes it to something vastly below its potential. Kneecapping the feature is its most intriguing aspect: Pamela Anderson’s lead performance as aging Las Vegas stage star Shelly, whose career is about to meet its end as her once popular show, Le Razzle Dazzle, is slated for cancelation.
Asheville Movies - The Fire Inside

Jan 11, 2025 | ashevillemovies.com | Edwin Arnaudin

If you’ve seen the trailer for The Fire Inside, you’ve seen all of the film that’s worth watching. Yet here this near two-hour bore is, hogging valuable screen space during awards season and making concerned viewers want to stage an intervention for Oscar-winning screenwriter Barry Jenkins.