About chrisreedfilm
Christopher Llewellyn Reed is a film critic, filmmaker, and educator. He is the lead film critic at hammertonail.com, an online magazine devoted to independent cinema; a regular film critic at filmfestivaltoday.com; the host of Dragon Digital Media’s award-winning "Reel Talk with Christopher Llewellyn Reed"; a regular film commentator for the "Roughly Speaking” podcast with Dan Rodricks at "The Baltimore Sun"; an occasional writer for the magazine bmoreart.com; and the author of "Film Editing: Theory and Practice." In addition, starting in January, 2018, he is one of three co-creators, along with Summre Garber of Slamdance and Bart Weiss of Dallas VideoFest, of "The Fog of Truth" (fogoftruth.com) – available on iTunes, SoundCloud and Stitcher – a podcast devoted to documentary cinema.
And Then I Go (Vincent Grashaw, 2017) 4 out of 4 stars A heartbreaking, lyrical take on early-adolescent alienation, angst and anomie, And Then I Go, from director Vincent Grashaw (Coldwater), gets a digital and VOD release today from The … Continue reading →
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Tagged And Then I Go, Arman Darbo, Ben Foster, chrisreedfilm, Christopher Llewellyn Reed, gun violence, junior high school, Justin Long, Melanie Lynskey, Patrick Scola, Sawyer Barth, school shooting, The Orchard, Tony Hale, Vincent Grashaw, VOD
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Truth or Dare (Jeff Wadlow, 2018) 1½ out of 4 stars. Hardly a masterpiece, either of cinema or even its own horror genre, Truth or Dare still offers a few entertaining moments here and there, though the sum total of … Continue reading →
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Tagged Blumhouse, chrisreedfilm, Christopher Llewellyn Reed, Hayden Szeto, horror, Jeff Wadlow, Lucy Hale, Truth or Dare, Tyler Posey, Violett Beane
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I met with director Jill Yesko on Friday, March 30, in our joint hometown of Baltimore, to discuss her feature documentary Tainted Blood, which profiles the 1984 bicyclist doping scandal at the 1984 Olympics. The film, Yesko’s debut, presents the … Continue reading →
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Tagged 1984 Olympics, bicycling, blood-doping, Bryan Fogel, Chris Hartlove, chrisreedfilm, Christopher Llewellyn Reed, cycling, documentaries, documentary, doping, Icarus, Jill Yesko, Lance Armstrong, Olympic cycling, Olympics, Tainted Blood
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A Quiet Place (John Krasinski, 2018) 2 out of 4 stars. Genial actor John Krasinski (Jim on the American version of The Office) has directed three feature-length films, so far. The first two were Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009) … Continue reading →
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Tagged A Quiet Place, chrisreedfilm, Christopher Llewellyn Reed, emily blunt, extraterrestrials, film review, horror, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, monster, movie review, Noah Jupe, science fiction
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Over four days, beginning March 22 and ending March 25, the 2018 Annapolis Film Festival screened 80+ films, a mix of documentary and narrative, shorts and features. I was only able to watch 8 of the latter (and none of … Continue reading →
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Tagged ACORN and the Firestorm, Alison Chernick, Annapolis, Annapolis Film Festival, Berni Goldblat, Bishop Carlton Pearson, Chloé Zhao, chrisreedfilm, Christopher Llewellyn Reed, Come Sunday, festivals, film festivals, Flock of Four, Gregory Caruso, House of Renewed Hope, Itzhak, Jamie Meltzer, Jason Kohn, Joshua Marston, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me, Love Means Zero, Robin Berghaus, Sam Pollard, Sammy Davis, Stumped, The Rider, True Conviction, Wallah
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Ready Player One* (Steven Spielberg, 2018) 3½ out of 4 stars. Adapted from Ernest Cline’s 2011 debut sci-fi novel of the same name, Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One – his 31st theatrical feature – delivers on the promise of the book, despite … Continue reading →
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Tagged Ben Mendelsohn, chrisreedfilm, Christopher Llewellyn Reed, Ernest Cline, Lena Waithe, Mark Rylance, Olivia Cooke, Ready Player One, Steven Spielberg, Tye Sheridan
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Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson, 2018) 3½ out of 4 stars. According to Isle of Dogs‘ press notes, the film “began with an unlikely, but potent mix of fascinations shared by [Wes] Anderson and his story collaborators Roman Coppola, Jason … Continue reading →
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Tagged Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Bryan Cranston, chrisreedfilm, Christopher Llewellyn Reed, dogs, Edward Norton, Greta Gerwig, Isle of Dogs, Japan, Jason Schwartzman, Jeff Goldblum, Kunichi Nomura, Roman Coppola, Scarlett Johansson, stop-motion animation, Tilda Swinton, Wes Anderson, Yoko Ono
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Flower (Max Winkler, 2018) 1½ out of 4 stars. If the very first scene of Max Winkler’s second feature, Flower, don’t turn you completely off the movie, there’s a chance you’ll emerge at the other end having had a better … Continue reading →
South by Southwest (SXSW), a multimedia festival showcasing music, film and interactive technology and design, was founded in 1987, devoted at first solely to music. Then, in 1994, the film and interactive conferences were added. 2018 marked the 25th iteration … Continue reading →
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Tagged 6 Balloons, A Little Wisdom, Abbi Jacobson, Agave: Spirit of a Nation, Alexandria Bombach, Anwan Glover, Blindspotting, Carlos López Estrada, Catherine Upin, Chi-Town, Chris Caldwell, chrisreedfilm, Christopher Llewellyn Reed, Cristina Costantini, Darren Foster, Dave Franco, Daveed Diggs, Emily Mortimer, Finn Wittrock, Greenland Melting, Hervé Cohen, interactive, International Science and Engineering Fair, ISEF, Jackie van Beek, Janet Pierson, Jay Duplass, Jeremy Workman, jessica chastain, Julia Cort, Keifer Sykes, Kyle Dixon, Life Underground, Madeleine Sami, Marja-Lewis Ryan, Matt Green, Michael Stein, Nadia Mourad, Nick Budabin, Nick Kovacic, Nonny de la Peña, On Her Shoulders, Pedro Pascal, Prospect, Rachel Keller, Rafael Casal, Raney Aronson-Rath, Ready Player One, S U R V I V E, Science Fair, Scott Cohen, Sheila Vand, Sophie Thatcher, Spheres, Spheres: Songs of Spacetime, Stacy Cochran, Steven Spielberg, SXSW, SXSW2018, Tess Frazer, The Breaker Upperers, The World Before Your Feet, virtual cinema, vr, Write When You Get Work, Yuqi Kang, Zeek Earl
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Submission (Richard Levine, 2017) 2½ out of 4 stars. Based on Francine Prose’s 2000 novel Blue Angel, in which a creative-writing professor at a small liberal-arts college in Vermont develops an inappropriate obsession with one of his students, Submission has … Continue reading →
