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Drew Hunt

Film Critic

United States

Cat Chaser (1988)

Publish Date: March 5, 2015
"I like the artistic tension created by the headstrong director matching wits with the equally headstrong writer (...) The joys of Leonard's tight structure and Ferrara's visual mastery are evident."

Chicago Reader
New Rose Hotel (1998)

Publish Date: March 5, 2015
"It sounds like a busy film, and it is in certain instances, but it's also incredibly graceful and beautiful"

Chicago Reader
Body Snatchers (1993)

Publish Date: March 5, 2015
"Ferrara made one of the best studio horror film of the 90s with this adaptation of the famous Jack Finney novel (...) The sense of paranoia and anxiety is [palpable]"

Chicago Reader
Snake Eyes (1993)

Publish Date: March 5, 2015
"A gut-wrenching movie, and probably the director's most personal. It's a corrosive ode to the filmmaking process that manages to find beauty and wonder in some truly ugly scenarios."

Chicago Reader
Breath (2007)

Publish Date: August 24, 2014
"Though Kim gets a little metaphor-happy (when doesn't he?), this is still highly competent filmmaking."

Chicago Reader
The Bow (2005)

Publish Date: August 24, 2014
"The abstract-realist aesthetic poses a number of interesting dichotomies, and the shocking denouement is one of Kim's most inspired moments"

Chicago Reader
If I Stay (2014)

Publish Date: August 21, 2014
"There are even shades of Bergman in the existential premise, but director J.R. Cutler is more interested in the young leads' cookie-cutter romance"

Chicago Reader
The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012)

"I found this 3-D stop-motion adventure from Aardman Animations quite charming (...) It doesn’t quite match the heights of their Wallace and Gromit films, but the same brand of absurdist humor, highlighted by the handcrafted style of the animation, is wholly present."

Chicago Reader
A Burning Hot Summer (2011)

"Garrel's work is indebted to silent cinema style, but his recent films have shown a real flair for dialogue too"

Chicago Reader
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012)

"There's decidedly less here than meets the eye. For all its sleek stylization, Anderson's feverish editing minimizes the value of any single image"

Chicago Reader
Metalhead (2013)

"This moody Icelandic character study illustrates the subjective nature of grief and the self-destructive ways people handle loss."

Chicago Reader
The Dyatlov Pass Incident (2013)

"As Renny Harlin's career progresses, it seems more and more that his early gems were merely happy accidents."

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