Female Film Critics 24/375
Dual, premiering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival written and directed by Riley Stearns, takes the concept of artificial personal duplication and turns it on its head, making a bold and satirical statement as to what life really means.
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The 2022 Sundance Film Festival is in a virtual mode again this year. On the upside, everyone has access to purchasing tickets to an event that was once rather exclusionary, limited to those who could attend the festival in the quaint town of Park City, Utah. The film Dual, written and directed by Riley Stearns, is a part of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival’s US Dramatic Competition category. Here’s what he has ti say about writing a female lead, the Covid challenge and Dual.
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As unexpected and hard-hitting as a kick from a hand or a punch from a foot, “The Art of Self-Defense”
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The Art of Self Defense is a movie at war with itself. Though billed as a satiric comedy on destructive hypermasculinity, it lacks the wit and insight to skewer its target with anything approaching a gratifying, substantive critique. At best a cartoonish lampoon, it exaggerates its nerdish protagonist and lacks needed, nuanced development.
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