Contributions from Marshall Shaffer | Little White Lies

Contributor Marshall Shaffer

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This Just In

Yorgos Lanthimos, Bugonia, and the Long Shadow of Stanley Kubrick

by Marshall Shaffer

Kubrickian echoes reverberate throughout the Greek filmmaker’s oeuvre. With Bugonia, those connections are shaped into a singular package that transcends the sum of its homages.
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Venice Film Festival

Orphan – first-look review

by Marshall Shaffer

Despite a compelling scenario, the characters in László Nemes’s third feature feel more like stand-ins for ideas than flesh-and-blood people.
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Review

Caught Stealing review – Darren Aronofsky gets back in the New York groove

by Marshall Shaffer

Darren Aronofsky taps into his inner New Yorker with a solidly entertaining 1998-set crime thriller starring Austin Butler as his Hitchcockian wrong man.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
In Praise Of

The slippery stardom of Rachel McAdams

by Marshall Shaffer

From Mean Girls through to Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret, the Canadian actress has become definable by her indefinability.
Festivals

The Fourth Estate – first look review

by Marshall Shaffer

Liz Garbus’ compelling documentary details The New York Times’ coverage of Donald Trump’s first year in office.

Why Baby Driver is the movie musical we’ve been waiting for

by Marshall Shaffer

Edgar Wright’s new film is a radical reinvention of a classic Hollywood genre.

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