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• Two ‘Barbie’ Reviews | ‘Plastic politics’ and ‘A doll’s duality’

  By YS News StaffJuly 30, 2023

  

  On Friday, July 21, the Little Art Theatre debuted “Barbie” to a capacity crowd. News writers Reilly Dixon and Lauren “Chuck” Shows reviewed the film.

• Review | To interiority and beyond in ‘Asteroid City’

  By Reilly DixonJune 26, 2023

  

  “‘Asteroid City’ is a meta film that spends 104 minutes scaffolding layers upon layers of tweedy, postmodern artifice. And I, for one, loved it.”

• Review | Of whales and love’s conditions

  By Reilly DixonFebruary 1, 2023

  

  Darren Aronofsky’s 2022 film, “The Whale,” is an exercise in discomfort. Audiences are spurred to shift in their seats as they watch the protagonist of undeniable size — played by the almost universally beloved Brendan Fraser — struggle to help himself time and again.

• Review | Nostalgic politics and pitfalls in ‘Licorice Pizza’

  By Reilly DixonFebruary 18, 2022

  

  Director Paul Thomas Anderson’s recent blockbuster film “Licorice Pizza” wants to remind us of all the thrills, seductions and dramas of adolescence.

• Review | ‘Nightmare Alley’ and the long con

  By Reilly DixonJanuary 20, 2022

  

  Benecio del Toro’s “Nightmare Alley” revives the carnivalesque narrative to remind audiences that deception has its consequences.

• Review | The tweedy pastiche of ‘The French Dispatch’

  By Reilly DixonNovember 11, 2021

  

  “It is, after all, both in form and reference, a love letter to The New Yorker and some of its past luminaries.”