Nicky Smith
Splice Today
Baltimore, MD, United States
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The Screaming Mouth of History
Parallel Mothers is Pedro Almodóvar’s most muted and sad film, haunted by Franco and the pandemic. || Nicky Smith → Read More
Icons Are Made of Mud
Bruno Dumont’s France is a social satire that gets under your skin over time instead of hitting you over the head. || Nicky Smith → Read More
Range Love
The love and lack of sentimentality of William Witney and his movies with Roy Rogers and Trigger, “The Smartest Horse in the Movies.” || Nicky Smith → Read More
Peggy at the AMC
Peggy Noonan and Jen Psaki’s peccadillos and the need for a coronavirus wartime mentality. || Nicky Smith → Read More
My Rite with Maud
Saint Maud is often predictable, but has two great performances by Morfydd Clark and Jennifer Ehle. || Nicky Smith → Read More
No Hope Soldiers
Abel Ferrara’s Zeros and Ones is the first compelling “COVID movie” that works on its own. || Nicky Smith → Read More
Growl of Benedetta
Paul Verhoeven’s very good lesbian nun tragedy is less sensational than some press has suggested. || Nicky Smith → Read More
Neon Grief
Two recent horror films: one kicking (Knocking), one dead on arrival (You Should Have Left). || Nicky Smith → Read More
Moving Images Must Talk
Visual storytelling and its absence in all contemporary TV and too many movies. || Nicky Smith → Read More
Soho No Go
Edgar Wright’s “giallo homage” is dull, uninspired, and far too tame. || Nicky Smith → Read More
Superman is a Fictional Character
He can be gay, have a mullet, or addicted to bath salts. He doesn’t exist. || Nicky Smith → Read More
Just Say No 2021
Strikes, marches, Southwest, and the only way that society will be disrupted. || Nicky Smith → Read More
Sons of Hitchcock
Claude Chabrol, Brian De Palma, and other directors that get left in the middle. || Nicky Smith → Read More
Carroll Baker’s Journey to Italy
The other American movie star to make it big in Italy in the 1960s, but to much less recognition. || Nicky Smith → Read More
Vain Check
Brian De Palma’s The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990) is a compromised masterpiece, more than a criminally overlooked curio. || Nicky Smith → Read More
Bent Cop Turning
Prince of the City is Sidney Lumet’s last masterpiece and one of the best police films ever made. || Nicky Smith → Read More
Speed Mitzvah
Donny’s Bar Mitzvah is rude and relentless, a comedy like Freddy Got Fingered with an airtight script. || Nicky Smith → Read More
Paul Schrader’s Torture Chamber
The rape of Iraq runs through The Card Counter, the coolest-looking movie in theaters right now. || Nicky Smith → Read More
Rambling, Scrambling Joes
World’s masters laugh as Americans fight like crabs in a barrel, while media continues to insist that Biden knows he’s President. || Nicky Smith → Read More
Hanging Puppets in Gallic Purgatory
French Exit is blindingly awful, belonging to the same canon as Life Itself, Collateral Beauty, The Happening, and The Wicker Man remake. || Nicky Smith → Read More