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April 28, 2008 Postmarks

Nihilism and the Great Whatsit: Richard Hell at Cinema Club

Richard Hell joins the Alamo's Cinema Club

May 28, 2012 Screens Post by Marc Savlov

Vox Lux

Pop star drama is all off-key

"...a true capitalist maneuver, Vox Lux absorbs our own nihilism, wraps it in a shiny package, and sells it..."

Dec. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Upgrade

Surprisingly smart techno-thriller goes for the brain and the jugular

"...its narrative up in a surprising bit of technological nihilism that will undoubtedly reward audiences with a second viewing...."

June 1, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

The Hangover: Part II

The action moves from Vegas to Thailand – but someone forgot to send along a new script.

"...the franchise, thereby setting the film's tone of cheerful nihilism. (He also performed a cover of Johnny Cash's “13”..."

May 27, 2011 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

George A. Romero's Survival of the Dead

Romero revivifies even more zombies with this new picture, but now the filmmaker depicts humankind as hardly worth saving.

"...since 1978's ultramoist Dawn from descending into pure, unadulterated nihilism. Recall Diary's inspired splatstick interlude with Samuel, the deaf-mute..."

May 28, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Max Payne

Film version of the popular video game stars Mark Wahlberg … unfortunately.

"...equal parts Will Eisner's The Spirit and free-floating, postwar nihilism. Which war? Does it matter? Not really. With Payne,..."

Oct. 24, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Babylon A.D.

Vin Diesel stars as a mercenary hired to escort a woman with a dangerous virus out of Russia.

"...offspring ensue. I call it (sneeringly, natch) the "New Nihilism," but, to be fair, it's really just the old,..."

Sept. 5, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Storytelling

"...fling in our faces, but this master of suburban nihilism has unearthed a few more sour grapes for us..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ride With the Devil

"...the battle scenes, and a well-evoked sense of the nihilism and moral confusion bred by this pointless, endlessly protracted..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent

"...traces of sentimentality, revealing a bare skeleton of moral nihilism. As Conrad observed often in his work, the deliberate..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Doom Generation

"...none of this has dampened Araki's unique blend of nihilism and romanticism fueled by a witty script and dynamic..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lotto Land

"...Surrounded by crime, apathy, and a kind of happy-go-lucky nihilism, they manage to retain their innate goodness and moral..."

Oct. 6, 1995 Movie Review by Patrick Taggart

Totally F***ed Up

Queer New Wave classic tracks six teenagers living in Los Angeles.

"...ennui in the film sometimes comes off as hip nihilism, there's no question that the pain and turmoil depicted..."

Nov. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Emma & Elvis

"...inquisitional spirit. The story pits Sixties-style activism against Nineties-style nihilism as an unlikely romance develops between a filmmaker in..."

May 14, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll

"...and at times it all becomes a little off-putting. Nihilism can only go so far before it becomes repellent,..."

Oct. 4, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

We Are Little Zombies

Wildly inventive Japanese musical comedy-drama finds the joy in nihilism

"...Nihilism is the most misunderstood philosophy. It gets bundled together..."

July 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Holdovers

Alexander Payne and Paul Giamatti reunite for a Christmas lament

"...things, it’s no surprise that Hollywood often turns to nihilism as an ideological framework. Some of the decade’s most-awarded..."

Nov. 3, 2023 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Sympathy for the Devil

Nicolas Cage goes old school in this unhinged midnight noir

"...God and is pissed at him. An evangelist for nihilism, there's a reason that he picks this driver to..."

July 28, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

Enviro-thriller reinvents direct action as a commando mission

"...as Michael. Twitchy, dangerous, self-destructive, there’s an inherent burning nihilism to his embracing of the plan, and his willingness..."

April 7, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Ants and the Grasshopper

Documentary wonders how to change minds about climate change

"...does so with much greater kindness and less brutal nihilism. It also implicitly acknowledges that Chitaya can't do this..."

March 31, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Review: The Lost Well: Rock for Rent Vol. 1

"...for the barking "Bug Out." Later, Nathan Calhoun's too-apathetic-to-sing nihilism counterintuitively conjures inspiration on heavy noise trio We Are..."

April 1, 2022 Music Feature by Kevin Curtin

Out of the Blue

Dennis Hopper’s lost film murders the Seventies

"...film tracked the decline of Seventies excess into no-future nihilism. At least, that’s what everyone says, anyway. Hopper the..."

March 25, 2022 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Minamata

Johnny Depp keeps it low-key in this bleak envirodrama

"...impact was questionable. But co-writer/director Andrew Levitas never lets nihilism obscure the fact that it was necessary...."

Feb. 11, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché

A daughter recalls growing up with a punk icon mum

"...neon day-glo colors atop punk’s black palette, rejecting its nihilism for a vicious satire of consumerism. They grafted bleating..."

Jan. 28, 2022 Movie Review by Tim Stegall

Fatman

Season's beatings with Gibson and Goggins in bloody Santa story

"...Oscar-nominated Klaus. Yet for all its bizarre Spaghetti Western nihilism, sporadically going full Franco Nero Django bloodfest, Fatman has..."

Nov. 13, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Possessor Uncut

Identity melts in this psychotropic assassination brainblender

"...storyline amidst all the heavily stylized carnage and outright nihilism may be the film’s biggest drawback, but presumably that’s..."

Oct. 2, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Train to Busan Presents: Peninsula

The Korean zombie franchise becomes a fun heist flick

"...a bloody and miserable intro, loaded with Yeon's signature nihilism, the action leaps four years into a future in..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

She Dies Tomorrow

Deathcentric dramedy mistakes gloom for depth

"...for success or failure. Muddily shot, it's entry level nihilism of the flavor that most people get out of..."

Aug. 7, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Let the Corpses Tan

Deliciously lurid crime drama is pulp in all the best ways

"...drama, one that owes as much to the blood-soaked nihilism of the most dust-encrusted spaghetti Westerns (like Lucio Fulci's..."

Sept. 7, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

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