Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
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Chicago, IL, United States
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Past articles by Ignatiy:
Home-invasion thriller See For Me is a waste of a good gimmick
Missed opportunities abound in this indie thriller from director Randall Okita → Read More
Denzel Washington directs Michael B. Jordan in the cloying melodrama A Journal For Jordan
Washington moves from August Wilson to morbid memoir in this Christmas Day dud → Read More
Tedious prequel The King’s Man lacks the violent fun of its spy-movie predecessors
Ralph Fiennes is a reluctant badass in this uninspired, long-delayed entry in the Kingsman franchise → Read More
Léa Seydoux has an existential crisis in the inscrutable France
Bruno Dumont’s latest is an uneven blend of satire and melodrama → Read More
Ethan Hawke tackles a dual role in the cryptic pandemic mood piece Zeros And Ones
Leave it to Abel Ferrara to capture the mood of our dystopian moment → Read More
Sexual abuse survivors direct their own stories in the poignant Procession
Robert Greene’s documentary examines trauma through an audacious filmmaking experiment → Read More
The Rock, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot steal only a few laughs in Netflix’s Red Notice
This wannabe streaming blockbuster proves that all the money in the world can’t buy a good time → Read More
Why the hell did Netflix green light a zombie-light prequel to Army Of The Dead?
Army Of Thieves gives an annoying supporting character from Zack Snyder’s movie a forgettable spinoff → Read More
Irreverent revenge Western The Harder They Fall falls flat
Jonathan Majors and Idris Elba face off in an Old West homage with more jokes than thrills → Read More
The massive Dune looks to the future and finds a classic Hollywood epic there
Denis Villeneuve cuts the 1965 sci-fi novel in two to faithfully preserve its plot → Read More
One Friday In April by Donald Antrim review: A writer recalls his suicide attempt
In his second book of nonfiction, Donald Antrim wonders if there’s a cure for suicide → Read More
The aftermath of a school shooting hangs over the stagey but well-acted Mass
Four excellent actors carry this un-cinematic drama about a meeting of bereaved parents → Read More
The dire animated Addams Family 2 could use more kooky and spooky
But if it’s your dearest desire to see the macabre clan lip sync to pop songs… → Read More
Sex, drugs, and ballet don't add up to much in Birds Of Paradise
Sarah Adina Smith’s Amazon dance drama isn’t trashy or soapy enough to be fun → Read More
Clint Eastwood returns to cowboy country in Cry Macho
The 91-year-old writer-director revisits the Western after a nearly 30-year absence → Read More
The Card Counter deals Oscar Isaac a losing hand
Paul Schrader's greatest hits overshadow an inconsistent character study → Read More
On the cusp of the anniversary, Netflix’s Worth finds little to say about September 11th
This post-9/11 drama asks big questions but comes up short on answers → Read More
Albert Brooks savagely sent up a generation with Lost In America
Is there another American filmmaker who has satirized generational anxieties and vacillations as savagely as Albert Brooks? → Read More
The feel-good Dream Horse is a true story we've heard before
Both literally and figuratively, Dream Horse is a story we've heard before: It's based on a hit documentary, and it resembles any number of fictional feel-good underdog fables. → Read More
Amy Adams spies a convoluted Rear Window mystery in The Woman In The Window
Weren’t all of us like The Woman In The Window's protagonist about a year ago—stuck indoors, yearning to feel better, convinced that one of our neighbors had committed murder? No? → Read More