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Ed Gonzalez

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Biography:

Ed Gonzalez is the film editor of Slant Magazine, which he co-founded in 2001. His writing has appeared in the Village Voice, the Los Angeles Times, City Pages, and beyond. He's a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and a member of the New York Film Critics Circle, the Online Film Critics Society, and the New York Film Critics Online.

Location:

Brooklyn, NY

Official Website:

http://www.slantmagazine.com

Reviews

Movies TV Shows
The Damned (2024) 90% 2/4 EDIT “Had we been allowed to truly sit with the characters’ prejudices, then The Damned might have earned the desperation with which it strains for contemporary resonance.” – Slant Magazine Dec 27, 2024 Full Review Kill, Baby... Kill! (1966) 100% 4/4 EDIT “This conflict between modern medicine and superstition lends Kill, Baby...Kill! a moral volatility that's noticeably absent from other films in Bava's canon.” – Slant Magazine Sep 27, 2024 Full Review Happy Campers (2023) 100% 2.5/4 EDIT “Amy Nicholson’s empathy for her subjects is undeniable.” – Slant Magazine Jul 27, 2024 Full Review Asphalt City (2023) 46% 1.5/4 EDIT “Shove everything into the meat grinder of cynicism and, in the end, your insights come to feel purely incidental.” – Slant Magazine Mar 26, 2024 Full Review Problemista (2023) 85% 1.5/4 EDIT “The film doesn’t lock on a target long enough for it to work up a head of steam as satire about the art world and how it thrives on nepotism, let alone one about the frustrations of the immigration process.” – Slant Magazine Feb 25, 2024 Full Review Iron Butterflies (2023) 83% 2/4 EDIT “Roman Liubyi’s documentary is nothing if not self-consciously obsessed with its own making.” – Slant Magazine Jan 23, 2023 Full Review When It Melts (2023) 79% 1.5/4 EDIT “When It Melts is a film that lives and dies on the games that it plays with audiences. ” – Slant Magazine Jan 22, 2023 Full Review Space: The Longest Goodbye (2023) 79% 3/4 EDIT “Ido Mizrahy’s film turns an impressively restrained and detailed lens on all the work that’s being done to provide more than just support to astronauts on a mission to Mars.” – Slant Magazine Jan 20, 2023 Full Review Jurassic World Dominion (2022) 29% .5/4 EDIT “When Dominion isn’t suffocating itself with world-building, much of it frustratingly untapped, it’s wholly given over to corny fan service.” – Slant Magazine Jun 8, 2022 Full Review R.M.N. (2022) 97% 2.5/4 EDIT “R.M.N. is a film almost perversely pregnant with sinister possibility, but it also reveals an unforgiving cynicism about the world as its social-realist strains become increasingly apparent. ” – Slant Magazine May 21, 2022 Full Review Downton Abbey: A New Era (2022) 87% 2.5/4 EDIT “A New Era’s acknowledgement that some things must die for new things to be born works to justify the film’s title by quietly linking its themes of entitlement and survival.” – Slant Magazine May 13, 2022 Full Review Firebird (2021) 57% 1.5/4 EDIT “There are clichés and then there are only clichés, and Firebird is suffocated by them.” – Slant Magazine Apr 22, 2022 Full Review Eternals (2021) 47% EDIT “Zhao ultimately robs the artist’s comic of its sweep by constantly turning a space opera into a repetitive character drama.” – Slant Magazine Feb 16, 2022 Full Review In the Same Breath (2021) 96% 3.5/4 EDIT “Wang Nanfu's extraordinary documentary sees contemporary political structures are as much of a disease as Covid-19, and, in the long run, the deadlier foes.” – Slant Magazine Aug 10, 2021 Full Review Beckett (2021) 49% 3/4 EDIT “It's thanks to a kind of tug of war between background and foreground that Beckett succeeds as a piece of entertainment.” – Slant Magazine Aug 5, 2021 Full Review Never Gonna Snow Again (2020) 95% 3.5/4 EDIT “With Never Gonna Snow Again, Malgorzata Szumowska presents a charm against apocalyptic despair but also willful ignorance, insisting that, with sufficient imagination, we can face a climate crisis of our own making.” – Slant Magazine Jul 27, 2021 Full Review No Man's Land (2021) 40% 1.5/4 EDIT “No Man's Land mostly suggests a performance of allyship on the filmmakers' part.” – Slant Magazine Jan 18, 2021 Full Review 12 Hour Shift (2020) 78% 2.5/4 EDIT “The plot, geared as much for comedy as horror, is wound with efficient build-up, and its revolving-door atmosphere is consistent enough to paper over some iffy acting, baggy dialogue, and more than a few minutes of wasted real estate.” – Slant Magazine Sep 27, 2020 Full Review Transsiberian (2008) 91% EDIT “Though not one for literal smoke and mirrors, master of horror Brad Anderson, with his panache for arousing fear from harried reality and rotted atmosphere, is still a shaman.” – Village Voice May 1, 2020 Full Review True History of the Kelly Gang (2019) 80% 2.5/4 EDIT “In more than one sense, Justin Kurzel's aggressively strange film queers the myth of the oft-lionized Ned Kelly.” – Slant Magazine Apr 20, 2020 Full Review Sea Fever (2019) 87% 2/4 EDIT “Writer-director Neasa Hardiman's film is undone by earnestness.” – Slant Magazine Apr 6, 2020 Full Review The Invisible Man (2020) 92% 1.5/4 EDIT “Like its style, The Invisible Man's cruelty is the point.” – Slant Magazine Feb 25, 2020 Full Review The Cordillera of Dreams (2019) 94% 3.5/4 EDIT “For Patricio Guzmán, to gaze at the Cordillera is to comprehend the range of history and the possibility of its distortion.” – Slant Magazine Feb 8, 2020 Full Review Three Christs (2017) 41% 1.5/4 EDIT “By the end, it's as if a good doctor's god complex has been taken up by the film itself.” – Slant Magazine Jan 5, 2020 Full Review Downton Abbey (2019) 84% 2.5/4 EDIT “Every scene here feels as if it begins with a grenade being thrown into a room, leaving one to wonder how it will be diffused, and after a while, all you see are the gears of various sublots turning separately until they mesh together and move in unison.” – Slant Magazine Sep 9, 2019 Full Review
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