Film Criticism Archive  ·  1996–2004

Cinema,
Examined.

An archive of in-depth film reviews, essays, and international festival coverage published by Nitrate Online between 1996 and 2004.

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Film Reviews & Essays

The Wild Bunch

Feature Essay  ·  1969

The Wild Bunch

Directed by Sam Peckinpah  ·  by Gregory Avery

Peckinpah's elegy to the American West stands as one of the most viscerally honest westerns ever committed to film. Shot with a ruthless precision that matches its subject, the film dissects the mythology of the frontier and finds only mortality beneath it.

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Gattaca

Review  ·  1997

Gattaca

Directed by Andrew Niccol

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Boogie Nights

Drama  ·  1997

Boogie Nights

Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson  ·  by Eddie Cockrell

Gattaca

Sci-Fi  ·  1997

Gattaca

Dir. Andrew Niccol  ·  by Dan Lybarger

Face/Off

Thriller  ·  1997

Face/Off

Dir. John Woo  ·  by Eddie Cockrell

Jackie Brown

Crime  ·  1997

Jackie Brown

Dir. Quentin Tarantino  ·  by Carrie Gorringe

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Essays & Festival Dispatches