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Jim Ridley

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Hard Times (1975) 72% EDIT “It's a terrific no-nonsense B picture that established Sam Peckinpah protege Hill's talent for classical action cinema, the kind with a comic book's graphic snap, crisp linear storytelling and clean bold lines.” – Nashville Scene Sep 25, 2025 Full Review Lone Star (1996) 91% EDIT “In a huge, uniformly fine cast, Elizabeth Peña, Miriam Colon as Pilar’s restaurateur mother, Ron Canada as a nightclub owner, and Clifton James as a garrulous old mayor make strong impressions.” – Nashville Scene Sep 6, 2023 Full Review Magnolia (1999) 82% EDIT “Magnolia is a hothouse flower, all right, but its perfume is close to intoxicating.” – Nashville Scene Jul 14, 2023 Full Review Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) 77% EDIT “Indiana Jones is rescued, though, by its leading man’s uncharacteristic amusement and by its director’s palpable high spirits.” – Nashville Scene Apr 12, 2023 Full Review Gladiator (2000) 80% EDIT “Gladiator isn’t awful, but it ain’t exactly a Roman holiday.” – Nashville Scene Nov 1, 2022 Full Review L.A. Confidential (1997) 99% EDIT “Trimmed as it is, the plot still expresses [Ellroy's] vision of Los Angeles, and of America, as a world that cons itself with illusions of morality and righteousness, while its leaders traffick behind the scenes in death and depravity.” – Nashville Scene Oct 19, 2021 Full Review No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson (2010) 89% EDIT “Thoughtful and even-handed...” – Nashville Scene Feb 11, 2020 Full Review Gummo (1997) 39% EDIT “If only the director didn't see the rest of humanity as found art, and himself as its appraisor!” – Nashville Scene Apr 2, 2019 Full Review Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) 91% EDIT “Birdman never falters as a love letter to actors, people who paradoxically remove their masks when they step onstage.” – Nashville Scene Feb 22, 2016 Full Review Son of Saul (2015) 96% EDIT “Son of Saul's achievement is to scrape away our benumbed awareness of the Final Solution in the abstract.” – Nashville Scene Feb 12, 2016 Full Review Carol (2015) 94% EDIT “Control isn't just the formal rigor that Carol exhibits from the very first scene: It's the stifling exactitude required of its two main characters, whose every public utterance and gesture must be delivered in code.” – Nashville Scene Dec 23, 2015 Full Review Victoria (2015) 82% EDIT “Without the stunt, there's not much of a movie.” – Nashville Scene Dec 11, 2015 Full Review Brooklyn (2015) 97% EDIT “After a week of shameful anti-immigrant rhetoric, Brooklyn is the big-hearted bear hug of a movie a lot of folks could use.” – Nashville Scene Dec 4, 2015 Full Review Runoff (2014) 79% EDIT “A hugely promising feature debut for writer-director-editor Kimberly Levin.” – Nashville Scene Jun 10, 2015 Full Review As It Is in Heaven (2014) 86% EDIT “The largely subdued movie could use a little obsessive visionary madness of its own, but Chris Nelson, the replacement guru, has an Opie-gone-Jonestown look that gets freakier as the movie progresses.” – Nashville Scene Jul 11, 2014 Full Review Sunrise (1927) 98% EDIT “If you need an introduction to silent cinema, F.W. Murnau's 1927 milestone remains a piercingly direct universal drama.” – Nashville Scene Feb 25, 2014 Full Review Wanted (2008) 72% EDIT “Bekmambetov's movie evaporates pretty quickly after it's consumed.” – Village Voice Jul 6, 2010 Full Review American Casino (2009) 73% EDIT “This authoritative, far-reaching documentary by veteran investigative journalists Leslie and Andrew Cockburn comes off as curiously bloodless.” – Village Voice Sep 1, 2009 Full Review Canary (2009) 80% EDIT “Micro in budget, macro in ambition, accomplishment, and scope, Adams's slyly withholding film prompts multiple viewings -- and deserves them.” – Village Voice Aug 4, 2009 Full Review Thirst (2009) 81% EDIT “Park's voluptuous style fits a genre that is all appetite -- or should be.” – Village Voice Jul 30, 2009 Full Review The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009) 51% EDIT “Scott's redo comes up short in almost every regard against the '74 model.” – Village Voice Jun 10, 2009 Full Review The Hangover (2009) 79% EDIT “An unusually palatable entry in a rancid genre.” – Village Voice Jun 3, 2009 Full Review New World Order (2009) 56% EDIT “Neither a call to alarm nor a laugh-at-the-loonies yukfest, the doc charts a temperate middle course through its subjects' heated rhetoric.” – Village Voice May 19, 2009 Full Review Knowing (2009) 35% EDIT “[A] lugubrious thriller.” – L.A. Weekly Mar 19, 2009 Full Review Hearts and Minds (1974) 90% EDIT “Not only the definitive American documentary about the war in Vietnam but a landmark political action.” – Village Voice Mar 17, 2009 Full Review
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