Contributor Brianna Zigler

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Festivals

Dual – first-look review

by Brianna Zigler

Riley Stearns' latest boasts an intriguing premise and a solid central performance, but its vagueness is to is detriment.
Two women in red dresses, one sitting at a vanity mirror applying makeup.
Festivals

Superior – first-look review

by Brianna Zigler

Familiar thematic elements come together in Erin Vassilopoulos’ riff on the doppelgänger genre.
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Festivals

Human Factors – first-look review

by Brianna Zigler

An apparent break-in sends a middle-class family into a spiral in Ronny Trocker’s exacting drama.
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In Praise Of

Eyes Wide Shut is an anti-consumerist holiday classic

by Brianna Zigler

Stanley Kubrick’s final film contains a thinly-veiled critique of the vulgar excess and materialism of Christmas.
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Review

Dick Johnson Is Dead

by Brianna Zigler

Filmmaker Kirsten Johnson repeatedly offs her father in this darkly funny and profound meditation on life and loss.

3
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
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Not Movies

Self-isolate with On Cinema at the Cinema

by Brianna Zigler

The world is stuck inside and looking to binge – look no further than the Victorville Film Archive.
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Festivals

Dick Johnson Is Dead – first look review

by Brianna Zigler

Filmmaker Kirsten Johnson crafts a comedic elegy to her deteriorating but still very alive father.

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