oddcritic

new wave publication for film, fashion, and culture critique

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An exploration of self-reclamation through pop culture, fashion, and cultural ephemera, contextualizing pimp and hoe culture through firsthand experience with a convicted sex trafficker.

by Madelaine Jane Auble

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Why are we still pretending the nice guy is an underdog when Hollywood has never allowed him to actually look like one? https://t.co/qvf4aVk7kf

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How Our Hero, Balthazar is disrupting modern movie marketing by connecting with and mobilizing the internet generation. https://t.co/zwNw0l5ntC

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A firsthand account from a former “toxic TV” case study revisiting childhood anxiety, escapism, and 90s media blame. https://t.co/fPSx51NCGQ

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30 years after Crash, are we still chasing Cronenberg-ian satisfaction by watching dash cam car crash compilations? https://t.co/guPbHNIou3

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Pete Ohs’ Erupcja is so emotionally immersive that its greatest flaw may simply be how quickly it's over. Review by Nicolas Tomasello

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here is 6000 words on why @MoternMedia may be the antidote to cynicism and the gateway into a folk art renaissance published on the coolest blog ever @oddcritic

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For @oddcritic, I wrote about male flight in literature and how it is completely absurd for men to blame their absence in literature on oppression. Thank you so much to Jenn for editing!
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An unprovoked, outdated, meaningless meltdown about the Oscars, and remembering the times the Academy got it right. https://t.co/x4jdNARn5f

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The Drama, Our Hero Balthazar, and the aesthetics of identity performance in a post-Columbine generation. https://t.co/a9M0SjLNXr

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A cult classic from 40 years ago made me wish I had hobbies. Thanks Rad! https://t.co/08t4aXmOkb

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Reliving my indie sleaze years through Chandler Levack's stellar sophomore film, Mile End Kicks https://t.co/HhU1b33PEf

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Oscar Boyson's feature debut Our Hero, Balthazar, is a star-crossed friendship story emerging from the algorithm, giving us one of few truly contemporary films of today https://t.co/ADhPERpVT0

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Curry Barker's festival favourite Obsession made me root for the "nice guy" https://t.co/uqto4mmwF8

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The short film French Lessons, a miniature movie theatre in Vancouver, and a message to antiquated industry rules. https://t.co/FQgCbWdDvR

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Ten years of The 1975’s I Like It When You Sleep calls for a return to the mid-2010s internet culture that shaped it. https://t.co/Cy1HLX4vLQ

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The insufferable discourse around Stranger Things forced our columnist, Prentyce, to revisit to Finn Wolfhard's band, Calpurnia, and therefore reflect on her youth. Read more
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top ten movies of 2025 - this is our truth

10. If I had legs I’d kick you
9. Eddington
8. After the hunt
7. Obsession
6. Bugonia
5. Our hero Balthazar
4. Sorry baby
3. Fucktoys
2. One battle after another
1. Marty supreme

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Safdie and Chalamet resurrect the American striver mentality with manic sincerity, proving ambition isn’t outdated, it’s cinema’s last honest thrill. Read our spoiler free Marty Supreme review:

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William Blake called it the Ulro, William Gibson called it Cyberspace, we just call it the algorithm

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