Kyle Flynn
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The Academy Award Nominated Shorts: Animated Capsule Reviews
By Kyle Flynn Butterfly: A rather surface-level exploration of telling a life story through their connection to the water. I wasn’t fond of the voiceover used throughout the majority of the short. I did really enjoy the animation style, the… Continue reading
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The 98th Academy Award Nominated Shorts: Documentary Capsule Reviews
By Kyle Flynn All The Empty Rooms: All The Empty Rooms documents the empty bedrooms of children who died in mass shootings amid the ever-growing crisis of gun violence in the United States. I found the film to be slightly… Continue reading
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The 98th Academy Award Nominated Shorts: Live-Action Capsule Reviews
By Kyle Flynn Live-Action Shorts: Butcher’s Stain: Amongst the batch of live-action shorts this year. Butcher’s Stain may be the only one to make me so frustrated, a compliment to the film’s narrative and writing. The emotional reaction I had… Continue reading
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A Poet Review – What Are Our Ambitions To Reflect In Humanity
By Kyle Flynn A Poet is a rarity in the modern landscape of cinema. It was one of the few films I saw in 2025 that were unmistakably hilarious but equally painful. The obvious oxymoron of being both ‘hilarious’ and… Continue reading
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La Grazia Review – Sorrentino’s Attempt At Returning The Stylishness Of Films From The Past
By Kyle Flynn Earlier this year, when I went to the cinema on a Sunday Afternoon to watch Sorrentino’s film Parthenope, a film at its core about beauty and the way we often become transfixed by the value it provides,… Continue reading
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Reflection In A Dead Diamond Review – Allow The Experience To Overtake You
By Kyle Flynn Reflection in a Dead Diamond, the newest visual feast from Cattet and Forzani, delivers the most earnest European spy thriller — or perhaps a direct foil to one — in recent memory. It is a film wholly… Continue reading
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[NYFF63] Resurrection Review – A Transformative Experience
By Kyle Flynn When I was much younger and far more enthusiastic as a moviegoer, I watched Bi Gan’s 2018 film Long Day’s Journey Into Night. In my honest assessment, it remains one of the best films of the decade.… Continue reading
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From The Golden Row! Another Awards Season Has Officially Begun
By Kyle Flynn Last week, two things happened. AFI Fest ended, and Gotham Nominations came out. Otherwise, what I will now start dubbing ‘The Great Seasonal Transition,’ the end of the Fall Festival Season, straight into the start of another… Continue reading
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[NYFF 63] Is This Thing On? Review – Bradley Cooper’s Heart On Full Display
By Kyle Flynn If I were to sum up the three films of Bradley Cooper in a single word, it would be earnest. A Star Is Born marked a turning point in his career — not just a performance that… Continue reading
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[TIFF 50] Capsule Reviews Pt 1: Homebound, Left-Handed Girl, A Useful Ghost, The Presidents’s Cake, And The Last One For The Road
By Kyle Flynn A Useful Ghost: A film that works much better conceptually and in form than it does in execution. The initial premise of the idea of a woman, who is a wife and a mother, but most importantly,… Continue reading
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From the Fourth Row! 