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Eric D. Snider

Eric D. Snider

Eric D. Snider has been a film critic since 1999, first for newspapers (when those were a thing) and then for the internet. He was born and raised in Southern California, lived in Utah in his 20s, then Portland, now Utah again. He is glad to meet you, probably.

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Sundance 2021: Trying New Things
Eric D. Snider

Sundance 2021: Trying New Things

Feb 4th, 2021
A quick look at some of the odder titles of #Sundance2021, including “R#J,” “Prisoners of the Ghostland,” and “Cryptozoo.”
Sundance 2021: Families Are Still a Mess
Eric D. Snider

Sundance 2021: Families Are Still a Mess

Feb 2nd, 2021
Our mini-reviews of five family-ccentric titles at Sundance, including ‘Coda,’ ‘John and the Hole,’ and ‘Marvelous and the Black Hole.’
Eric D. Snider's 2020 Sundance Diary
Eric D. Snider

Eric D. Snider's 2020 Sundance Diary

Feb 1st, 2020
MOVIES:Black BearBoys StateDream HorseEmaThe FatherThe GloriasHerselfHis HouseJumboKajillionaireMinariMiss AmericanaNever Rarely Sometimes...
Review: <i>Bad Boys for Life</i>
Eric D. Snider

Review: Bad Boys for Life

Jan 18th, 2020
It's been nearly 25 years since Miami police detectives Mike Lowrey (Will Smith) and Marcus Burnett (Martin Lawrence) first teamed up to shoot bad...
Review: <i>Troop Zero</i>
Eric D. Snider

Review: Troop Zero

Jan 16th, 2020
In 1977, NASA scientists put out the word that they'd be recording greetings from people from around the world and sending them (the recordings) into...
2019 in Film: Miscellaneous Important Data
Eric D. Snider

2019 in Film: Miscellaneous Important Data

Jan 1st, 2020
Based on my own research. Films included only if they played theatrically. Corrections and additions are welcome (@ me). For comparison’s sake,...
The Best and Worst Movies of 2019
Eric D. Snider

The Best and Worst Movies of 2019

Dec 31st, 2019
The more I do this, the more it seems wrong to call these the "best" movies when I only saw a fraction of the entries. Well over 1,300 new films...
Don't Forget! 2019 Edition
Eric D. Snider

Don't Forget! 2019 Edition

Dec 25th, 2019
We had some of our regular contributors suggest movies from this year that flew under the radar or aren't getting enough end-of-the-year attention....
Review: <i>A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood</i>
Eric D. Snider

Review: A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Nov 25th, 2019
Coming on the heels of last year's documentary Won't You Be My Neighbor?, the unabashedly adoring Mister Rogers story A Beautiful Day in the...
REVIEW: <i>Ford v Ferrari</i>
Eric D. Snider

REVIEW: Ford v Ferrari

Nov 15th, 2019
There are no legal skirmishes in Ford v Ferrari. The battles between the automakers take place in boardrooms, racetracks, and other places where men...
Review: <i>Parasite</i>
Eric D. Snider

Review: Parasite

Nov 11th, 2019
Income inequality has seldom been funnier than in Parasite, a scathing satire-farce-tragedy-horror from South Korea's Bong Joon-ho (Snowpiercer, The...
Review: <i>Countdown</i>
Eric D. Snider

Review: Countdown

Oct 25th, 2019
In Countdown, the mildly stupid teen horror flick about a phone app that tells you how long you have to live, it's not the app that kills you. The...
Review: <i>Greener Grass</i>
Eric D. Snider

Review: Greener Grass

Oct 18th, 2019
Greener Grass is an absurdist suburban satire written and directed by Upright Citizens Brigade alumnae Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe, populated...
Review: <i>The Lighthouse</i>
Eric D. Snider

Review: The Lighthouse

Oct 18th, 2019
You'd be forgiven for thinking The Lighthouse is a comedy when the first two things that happen are Robert Pattinson bumping his head and swearing...
Review: <i>Zombieland: Double Tap</i>
Eric D. Snider

Review: Zombieland: Double Tap

Oct 18th, 2019
Another one of this week's unnecessary sequels is Zombieland: Double Tap, a hit-or-miss follow-up to the perfectly good 2009 comedy that brings back...
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