Nadine Whitney
@nadinewhitney.bsky.social
Freelance film critic. RT approved 🍅 OFCS. GALECA. AWFJ. AFCA. GOLDEN GLOBES.
Other places too. Bad at self promotion and self control.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critics/nadine-whitney/movies?critic=self
Other places too. Bad at self promotion and self control.
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/critics/nadine-whitney/movies?critic=self
Michelle Garza Cervera does what she can to add style to the substance-free reimagining of THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE. Mary Elizabeth Winstead facing down Maika Monroe should have more sizzle.
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October 25, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Michelle Garza Cervera does what she can to add style to the substance-free reimagining of THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE. Mary Elizabeth Winstead facing down Maika Monroe should have more sizzle.
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And we can tell.
October 15, 2025 at 3:26 AM
And we can tell.
Anne Brontë was the most feminist writer of the sisters.
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 14, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Anne Brontë was the most feminist writer of the sisters.
Kathryn Bigelow alert 🚨
A stellar deep dive into the Venice smash hit and major awards player A House of Dynamite: @nadinewhitney.bsky.social speaks with Kathryn Bigelow, Rebecca Ferguson, Jason Clarke, Anthony Ramos, Tracy Letts, and Noah Oppenheim for @thecurb.com.au:
Inside a House of Dynamite - The Curb | Film and Culture
Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite tracks the response to an unattributed nuclear warhead that is destined to land on an American city. The film moves in three terrifying segments replaying the sam...
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October 7, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Kathryn Bigelow alert 🚨
COYOTES is a movie that struggles to be what it promised and without the true throughline of satire to give the film teeth the comedy is primarily goofy, the drama tedious, and the horror… unfortunately too artificial.
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Movie Review: ‘Coyotes’ is a Bit of a Dog’s Dinner | InSession Film
COYOTES is a bit of a dog’s dinner.
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October 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
COYOTES is a movie that struggles to be what it promised and without the true throughline of satire to give the film teeth the comedy is primarily goofy, the drama tedious, and the horror… unfortunately too artificial.
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Good Boy is a brilliant horror film that provides an elemental and emphatic experience of empathy with its canine protagonist.
My review for @thecurb.com.au
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My review for @thecurb.com.au
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MonsterFest: Good Boy is Best in Show of Doggy Horror - The Curb | Film and Culture
Many of us have heard stories of domestic animals and their uncanny perceptions. The cat in a nursing home or hospice who sits on the bed of the next patient to pass away. The story of dogs knowing wh...
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October 3, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Good Boy is a brilliant horror film that provides an elemental and emphatic experience of empathy with its canine protagonist.
My review for @thecurb.com.au
www.thecurb.com.au/monsterfest-...
My review for @thecurb.com.au
www.thecurb.com.au/monsterfest-...
Reposted by Nadine Whitney
Splitsville is one of the year’s best comedies. It feels fresh, funny, knows what to do with Dakota Johnson and opens across Australia today. Here’s my interview with its creators and stars, Kyle Marvin and Michael Angelo Corvino for @thecurb.com.au.
Splitsville: Michael Angelo Corvino and Kyle Marvin on Comedy, Craft, and Climbing Back - The Curb | Film and Culture
“Australia has some great comedy,” says Kyle Marvin. “You guys are doing it right.” “Yeah,” agrees Marvin’s collaborator, Michael Angelo Corvino. “We were really disappointed not to make it over to th...
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September 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Splitsville is one of the year’s best comedies. It feels fresh, funny, knows what to do with Dakota Johnson and opens across Australia today. Here’s my interview with its creators and stars, Kyle Marvin and Michael Angelo Corvino for @thecurb.com.au.
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One Battle After Another
S&A Mini Review
S&A Mini Review
One Battle After Another S&A Mini Review
YouTube video by Schlock & Awe Podcast
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September 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
One Battle After Another
S&A Mini Review
S&A Mini Review
Reposted by Nadine Whitney
I interviewed Robert Redford back in 2019 and it turned out to be one of his last ever longform interviews. Here it is six years later in A Rabbit's Foot...
Robert Redford, the man who lived
Andy Hazel spoke to the late, great Robert Redford about childhood, freedom and living in dark times.
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September 19, 2025 at 10:55 PM
I interviewed Robert Redford back in 2019 and it turned out to be one of his last ever longform interviews. Here it is six years later in A Rabbit's Foot...
Reposted by Nadine Whitney
MJ's @nadinewhitney.bsky.social says, "CHAIN REACTIONS is both erudite and wholly democratic in its appreciation of Hooper’s masterpiece."
#ChainReactions opens in NY and Los Angeles Friday, and will expand on September 26.
#ChainReactions opens in NY and Los Angeles Friday, and will expand on September 26.
CHAIN REACTIONS is an inclusive, slightly imbalanced exploration of Tobe Hooper’s masterpiece — Moviejawn
by Nadine Whitney, Staff Writer Art demands a reaction, and Philippe has chosen to interview five horror experts who believe with all their being that Hooper’s film is unquestionably art.
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September 18, 2025 at 4:59 PM
MJ's @nadinewhitney.bsky.social says, "CHAIN REACTIONS is both erudite and wholly democratic in its appreciation of Hooper’s masterpiece."
#ChainReactions opens in NY and Los Angeles Friday, and will expand on September 26.
#ChainReactions opens in NY and Los Angeles Friday, and will expand on September 26.
CHAIN REACTIONS is both erudite and wholly democratic in its appreciation of Hooper’s masterpiece. Art is for everyone.
Featuring Stephen King, Patton Oswalt, Karyn Kusama, Takashi Miike and @horrornonna.com
speaking about THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE.
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Featuring Stephen King, Patton Oswalt, Karyn Kusama, Takashi Miike and @horrornonna.com
speaking about THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE.
www.moviejawn.com/home/2025/9/...
CHAIN REACTIONS is an inclusive, slightly imbalanced exploration of Tobe Hooper’s masterpiece — Moviejawn
by Nadine Whitney, Staff Writer Art demands a reaction, and Philippe has chosen to interview five horror experts who believe with all their being that Hooper’s film is unquestionably art.
www.moviejawn.com
September 19, 2025 at 3:31 AM
CHAIN REACTIONS is both erudite and wholly democratic in its appreciation of Hooper’s masterpiece. Art is for everyone.
Featuring Stephen King, Patton Oswalt, Karyn Kusama, Takashi Miike and @horrornonna.com
speaking about THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE.
www.moviejawn.com/home/2025/9/...
Featuring Stephen King, Patton Oswalt, Karyn Kusama, Takashi Miike and @horrornonna.com
speaking about THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE.
www.moviejawn.com/home/2025/9/...
Oh, heaps. But this one stands out.
September 17, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Oh, heaps. But this one stands out.
1. Giggling fits
2. Fresh sheets
3. The first few notes of a beloved song
4. Crochet blankets
5. Coffee
2. Fresh sheets
3. The first few notes of a beloved song
4. Crochet blankets
5. Coffee
Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life:
1. Cold side of a pillow
2. Autumn in New York City, sweater-weather temperature
3. Crocs (the shoe, not the reptile)
4. Finding stuff after thinking you lost it
5. Cats
1. Cold side of a pillow
2. Autumn in New York City, sweater-weather temperature
3. Crocs (the shoe, not the reptile)
4. Finding stuff after thinking you lost it
5. Cats
September 16, 2025 at 3:07 AM
1. Giggling fits
2. Fresh sheets
3. The first few notes of a beloved song
4. Crochet blankets
5. Coffee
2. Fresh sheets
3. The first few notes of a beloved song
4. Crochet blankets
5. Coffee
STEVE had the potential to be both beautifully heartbreaking and hopeful with a more focussed execution. That Mielants misses the mark is frustrating, but it doesn’t wholly condemn the work.
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Movie Review (TIFF 2025): ‘Steve’ Hides Buried Excellence | InSession Film
STEVE is a good film, but it could have been a great film.
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September 16, 2025 at 2:43 AM
STEVE had the potential to be both beautifully heartbreaking and hopeful with a more focussed execution. That Mielants misses the mark is frustrating, but it doesn’t wholly condemn the work.
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A harrowing work of art, but one that inspires empathy on a level beyond watching the young men and the country suffer. The Long Walk is bound for immediate status as a classic of the dystopian genre.
My review of THE LONG WALK for @awfjorg.bsky.social
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My review of THE LONG WALK for @awfjorg.bsky.social
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September 16, 2025 at 2:27 AM
A harrowing work of art, but one that inspires empathy on a level beyond watching the young men and the country suffer. The Long Walk is bound for immediate status as a classic of the dystopian genre.
My review of THE LONG WALK for @awfjorg.bsky.social
awfj.org/blog/2025/09...
My review of THE LONG WALK for @awfjorg.bsky.social
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Finally remembered to delete my Xitter account. I hadn’t opened the app in so long.
I couldn’t even have an unused account there any longer.
I couldn’t even have an unused account there any longer.
September 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Finally remembered to delete my Xitter account. I hadn’t opened the app in so long.
I couldn’t even have an unused account there any longer.
I couldn’t even have an unused account there any longer.
Tribeca darling GRIFFIN IN SUMMER is VOD tomorrow in the USA and coming to Stan in Australia soon.
I sing its (MANY) praises in my review.
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I sing its (MANY) praises in my review.
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Griffin in Summer (2025) | Film Review | This Is Film
Nicholas Colias’ Griffin in Summer is a glorious coming-of-age story set over the span of a single summer for fourteen-year-old playwright, Griffin Nagly (Everett Blunck) where his Off Broadway ambiti...
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September 15, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Tribeca darling GRIFFIN IN SUMMER is VOD tomorrow in the USA and coming to Stan in Australia soon.
I sing its (MANY) praises in my review.
thisisfilm.com/review/griff...
I sing its (MANY) praises in my review.
thisisfilm.com/review/griff...
September 15, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Julie Pacino was an absolute pleasure to speak with. I LIVE HERE NOW is a haunting and dark fairytale starring Lucy Fry, Matt Rife, Madeline Brewer and SHERYL LEE.
And if that's not enough, then give this interview by @nadinewhitney.bsky.social with Julie Pacino a listen ahead of I Live Here Now screening at SUFF this weekend.
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SUFF Interview: Julie Pacino on her dark fairytale I Live Here Now - The Curb | Film and Culture
Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or iHeart Radio. Download the episode directly here. Julie Pacino’s dark fairytale I Live Here Now is a powerful and complex debut ...
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September 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Julie Pacino was an absolute pleasure to speak with. I LIVE HERE NOW is a haunting and dark fairytale starring Lucy Fry, Matt Rife, Madeline Brewer and SHERYL LEE.
Tina Romero is epic fun. So is her film QUEENS OF THE DEAD. Here is a photo of Katy O’Brian and Jack Haven as Dre and Kelsey.
September 11, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Tina Romero is epic fun. So is her film QUEENS OF THE DEAD. Here is a photo of Katy O’Brian and Jack Haven as Dre and Kelsey.
If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.
September 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
If you see this, repost with a vampire that is not Dracula.
One of the best fight scenes in contemporary film. SPLITSVILLE is fantastic.
"SPLITSVILLE seamlessly shifts from chaotic comedy to an earnest examination of insecurity and overcompensation."
Nadine Whitney @nadinewhitney.bsky.social reviews the new movie from actor-writer-director Michael Angelo Covino.
Nadine Whitney @nadinewhitney.bsky.social reviews the new movie from actor-writer-director Michael Angelo Covino.
SPLITSVILLE is a laugh-out-loud exploration of modern romance — Moviejawn
by Nadine Whitney, Staff Writer Splitsville seamlessly shifts from chaotic comedy to an earnest examination of insecurity and overcompensation.
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September 5, 2025 at 6:42 AM
One of the best fight scenes in contemporary film. SPLITSVILLE is fantastic.
Adrian Ortega’s WESTGATE played at MIFF and I review it for @thecurb.com.au
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Adrian Ortega’s Westgate is an immersively authentic gift of a film - The Curb | Film and Culture
In 1970 the under-construction Westgate Bridge in Melbourne collapsed, the biggest industrial accident to ever occur in Australia. 35 people died. It changed the way the industry approached safety aro...
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September 3, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Adrian Ortega’s WESTGATE played at MIFF and I review it for @thecurb.com.au
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