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Michael Atkinson

Michael Atkinson

Film Critic

United States

Gasoline Rainbow (2023)

Publish Date: May 12, 2024
"It's all scantly articulated and fairly boilerplate; it's as if the filmmakers deliberately picked their cast by filtering out interesting stories or distinctive ideas"

LA Weekly
Wildcat (2023)

Publish Date: May 2, 2024
"An ambitious paean to creative will, and a won't-let-go love song to the old-fashioned act of making art"

LA Weekly
The Beast (2023)

Publish Date: April 3, 2024
"Bertrand Bonello tosses dynamic images –and too many ideas– into his beautiful filmic dumpster"

LA Weekly
Out of Darkness (2022)

Publish Date: February 11, 2024
"The movie is not ultimately the horror film it's being marketed as, it's more like a cave-dwelling slasher film, with a late-in-the-game swivel that doesn't quite dovetail with the shredded bodies"

LA Weekly
The Settlers (2023)

Publish Date: January 15, 2024
"Most of what you might hear about 'Los colonos' is about its brutality, but I found the movie almost strangely tasteful"

LA Weekly
Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths) (2022)

Publish Date: November 8, 2022
"Iñárritu has become one of those filmmakers who considers himself a visionary, and every protracted foot of the movie feels like a swooning statement of self-conscious greatness for which we are supposed to be thankful"

LA Weekly
By the Time It Gets Dark (2016)

Publish Date: April 11, 2017
"You could be forgiven for thinking that while all this is going on, nothing at all seems to happen — it’s a film, a rather gorgeous one, of glances and ephemera and delicate metaphors."

Village Voice
Pelle the Conqueror (1987)

Publish Date: February 21, 2017
"A natural, organic epic, and one that opens a window on a meticulously detailed bygone world that, by film’s end, you might feel as though you’ve visited."

Village Voice
The Treasure (2015)

Publish Date: January 4, 2016
"In a manner so sly you could overlook it, Porumboiu invests this tissue-thin premise with the shadows of Romanian history."

Village Voice
Out 1 (1971)

Publish Date: November 2, 2015
"A magnificent irrelevance (...) I'd have to admit that, for all its immoderation and essentiality, the film is not even Rivette's premier achievement."

Village Voice
Experimenter (2015)

Publish Date: October 12, 2015
"The movie is itself a rat-maze of one-sided mirrors, windows upon windows, anonymous hallways, compartmentalized instances of watching, being watched, seeing and not-seeing."

Village Voice
Hard to Be a God (2013)

Publish Date: January 27, 2015
"An epic lurch through the circle of the Inferno Dante left out, where we are buried chin-deep in wet manure."

Village Voice
Far from Vietnam (1967)

Publish Date: August 26, 2013
"It could be both the most eloquent and rankling protest film ever made"

The New York Times
Una noche (2012)

Publish Date: August 19, 2013
"Everything feels fake except the Centro Habana barrios themselves (...) Rating: ** (out of 5)"

Time Out
Hannah Arendt (2012)

Publish Date: May 27, 2013
"The German filmmaker has a heavy hand (...) as well as difficulty in nailing Arendt’s American contemporaries (...) rating: *** (out of five)"

Time Out
I Saw the Devil (2010)

Publish Date: March 1, 2011
"Never good with nuance, Kim is a beast with disarming imagery but has few resonating ideas"

Village Voice
House (1977)

Publish Date: January 11, 2010
"It may be impossible not to be stunned into dumbness by Nobuhiko Obayashi’s 'Hausu' ('House'), an incredibly (...) Japanese horror lark"

Village Voice
The Great Dictator (1940)

Publish Date: December 21, 2009
"The result is an unrepeatable explosion of doublings (...) A cheaply, but methodically, made film"

Village Voice
The River (1951)

Publish Date: July 25, 2005
"Renoir fashioned what might be his sweetest movie about family and one of the post-war years’ most serene cinematic statements."

Village Voice
High Noon (1952)

Publish Date: April 19, 2004
"A scorching and sour portrait of American complacence and capacity for collaborationism"

Village Voice

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