Year-End Self-Loathing

What the hell happened this year?

Dec. 28, 2007 Music Post by Audra Schroeder

Fear & Loathing on the Inaugural Trail

One man's journey to the Bush inauguration confirms more than it denies.

Feb. 2, 2001 Features Feature by Michael Bolduc

Seven Pounds

Will Smith stars in this dramatic film about a man who whose melancholia compels him to devise a unique plan to redeem what remains of his life.

"...before and who now leads a desperate life of self-loathing and regret. Seeking out the most effective and productive..."

Dec. 19, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Holly

Ron Livingston plays a lost soul in Cambodia who rescues a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl, who has been sold as a prostitute by her parents.

"...with defeated gusto into the role of Patrick, a self-loathing American expatriate in Cambodia stumbling his way from underground..."

Nov. 30, 2007 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Dogville

Lars von Trier's new film is both masterful and misanthropic.

"...storytelling, Dogville nevertheless transmits such universal misanthropy that the self-loathing the viewer is gripped with at the end of..."

April 16, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Beach

"...DiCaprio oozes self-interest and more than a hint of self-loathing. It's a meaty role, chock-full of nasty turns and..."

Feb. 11, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hancock

Will Smith is the titular Hancock, a character as befuddling as the odd movie that surrounds him.

"...with great power comes vast amounts of booze and self-loathing – a superheroic subtext already delivered with far more..."

July 4, 2008 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Roger Dodger

"...considers himself God's gift to women despite an inner self-loathing and generally misanthropic attitude, Roger is someone whom most..."

Nov. 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

My Blind Brother

Indie romantic comedy has plenty of bite

"...Bill, with whom she shares an impressive store of self-loathing and a sort of energy-starved outlook on life (their..."

Sept. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Choke

Choke, a forgettable adaptation of Chuck Palahniuk’s 2001 novel, features Sam Rockwell as a man of many hats, all of them off-putting.

"...(Huston). Mancini’s character boils down to a lot of self-loathing and unresolved mommy issues – which is as tedious..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Henry Poole Is Here

Director Mark Pellington has turned soft with this corny, redemptive, and/or inspirational tale that stars Luke Wilson.

"...his old neighborhood and spends his days in quiet self-loathing, hoping not to be bothered. Unfortunately for him, he’s..."

Aug. 15, 2008 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

In Good Company

In Good Company is a sincere but serviceable-at-best dramedy from Paul Weitz, one-half of the fraternal team that has already brought us two studies about the human male: American Pie and About a Boy.

"...note in a complicated bouquet of pity, disgust, indignance, self-loathing, and survival instinct. But when the workplace friction between..."

Jan. 14, 2005 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Cotton Mary

"...cookbooks, is literally painful to watch as the needy, self-loathing lead character. This, I suppose, can be taken as..."

April 21, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Deep End of the Ocean

"...In following scenes, in which Beth's sorrow hardens into self-loathing, Pfeiffer is brittle enough, but she's too controlled to..."

March 19, 1999 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Mala Noche

Van Sant's first major film is a gritty, low-budget take on unrequited love set in the skid row of Portland, Ore. The film is a mordant, black-and-white diamond in the rough.

"...mediocrity. Although activists have criticized Van Sant as a self-loathing gay man who doesn't toe the politically correct line,..."

Jan. 10, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Review: Middle Sattre, Tendencies

Eightpiece’s soul-baring string arrangements push through self-loathing

"...lead vocalist Hunter Prueger grapples with internalized homophobia and self-loathing, playing tug-of-war between tracks. Realization echoes through the ambient..."

Feb. 16, 2024 Music Feature by Miranda Garza

Nymphomaniac: Volume 1

Lars von Trier's latest provocation is more meditation than outright flagellation.

"...sound), and fly-fishing, Joe-now and Joe-then act as admittedly self-loathing foils. It’s all a bit like eavesdropping on an..."

March 28, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

For Your Consideration

Although it attempts to skewer Hollywood, this new comedy from Christopher Guest, and his loyal troupe of improv actors doesn’t have even a drop of affection for its characters.

"...wallow in a dark pit of human degradation and self-loathing and then told to laugh at your predicament. Of..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Colossal

Toxic masculinity melds with a monster movie

"...touching as it does on everything from love to self-loathing, and from people getting hammered to the populace of..."

April 14, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Gambler

Mark Wahlberg has one of his juiciest roles ever as a creative-writing professor by day and a compulsive gambler by night.

"...a cocksure attitude, a million-dollar wardrobe, and enough curdled self-loathing to make John Cassavetes flinch. Early on, we see..."

Dec. 26, 2014 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fences

Denzel Washington scores big in August Wilson's great American play

"...a manic man aflame with a stoic sort of self-loathing...."

Dec. 23, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Defy You, Ira Glass

"...life lived at a safe distance, of shame and self-loathing...."

Oct. 16, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

SXSW Film Review: How it Ends

Apocalypse-lite comedy isn't light on heart or humor

"...is there. “You don’t count,” Liza says, the thick self-loathing evident in the three words. Beneath the words are..."

March 19, 2021 Screens Post by James Scott

Addiction and the Meaning of Life

"...failures not as a manifestation of his fear and self-loathing but as cruel punishment administered by fickle Gods out..."

Oct. 13, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Sandra Bernhard ♥ America

Sandra Bernhard returns to Austin for We're Still Queer Honey!

"...SB: Self-loathing ......."

June 4, 2010 Features Feature by Cindy Widner

The Beach Bum

Fear and loathing in Florida with Korine and Matthew McConaughey

March 29, 2019 Movie Review by Dan Gentile

Secretary

Oct. 18, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Naked

April 15, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Disney's the Kid

"...narcissistic relationship between the two Russells, which is alternately self-loathing and self-loving, antagonistic, then paternalistic. Unfortunately, Wells simply cracks..."

July 6, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Women Talking

Sarah Polley finds stunning drama in one simple night of conversations in a barn

"...either from a vindictive need for revenge or hopeless self-loathing. For a while, each of their characters seems trapped..."

Dec. 23, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

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