Nestor Kok is a graphic designer by day and an entertainment journalist by night.
(Well, not really by night, just whenever he has time to write.)
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The Nasser brothers’ third feature is a tragicomic Rube Goldberg machine of cultural resistance and farcical coincidence.
Acclaimed documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer’s surprise pivot to fictional narratives is unforgivably flaccid and ham-handed; a far cry from his past work.
Chuckles may be thin on the ground here, but the Romanian auteur’s pivot from satire to social realism is a most welcome change.
The Nasser brothers’ third feature is a tragicomic Rube Goldberg machine of cultural resistance and farcical coincidence.
Théodore Pellerin and Archie Madekwe elevate an otherwise serviceable thriller that falls short of the sum total of its paradigmatic influences.
Jessica Chastain reunites with Mexican cinema’s enfant terrible for a furious and frothing examination of the cross-sections between race, social class, and power.
Acclaimed documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer’s surprise pivot to fictional narratives is unforgivably flaccid and ham-handed; a far cry from his past work.
Chuckles may be thin on the ground here, but the Romanian auteur’s pivot from satire to social realism is a most welcome change.
Despite its technical competence, Kelly Reichardt’s parable against upper-class hubris is as aimless as its leading man’s thousand-yard stare.
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Hey, I’m Nestor, and I’m already tired of writing in the third person. I wear many hats in life, including a graphic design hat and an illustrator hat.
Writing is my “side gig” — but I’ve won awards for it, and love nattering on about entertainment. I have also been described as “Timotheé-Chalamet-adjacent” — whatever that means.