Author Archive: Jerry Roberts

Jerry Roberts is a film critic and operator of two websites, Armchair Cinema and Armchair Oscars.

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Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off (2022)

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Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off (2022)

Needless to say, every sport has a hero who rises beyond the competitive arena and becomes a household name even to those who don’t follow...
| April 5, 2022
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Babi Yar. Context (2022)

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Babi Yar. Context (2022)

The approach is sort of striking at first, if not a touch off-putting.  Babi Yar. Context sets itself apart from your standard documentary by simply...
| April 1, 2022
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Infinite Storm (2022)

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Infinite Storm (2022)

It must be written into the fabric of lone survivalist women in the movies that they can't just brave the elements and come out the...
| April 1, 2022
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Nitram (2022)

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Nitram (2022)

Justin Kurzel's Nitram is one of the most unpleasant movies that I have seen in a good while, equal parts creepy, grungy and unsettling and yet...
| April 1, 2022
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Barbarians (2022)

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Barbarians (2022)

Two Thousand Twenty-Two marks the 40th anniversary of my favorite horror film, Tobe Hooper's Steven Spielberg's Poltergeist which, to my mind, is the ultimate in home invasion...
| April 1, 2022
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See You Then (2022)

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See You Then (2022)

Mari Walker's See You Then has, to this point, been so compared with Richard Linklater's Before trilogy that it almost seems like an afterthought to point...
| April 1, 2022
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Mini Episode: Our reactions to The 94th Academy Awards . . . or He Who Gets Slapped!

Mini Episode: Our reactions to The 94th Academy Awards . . . or He Who Gets Slapped!

This episode (recorded only two days after the Oscar telecast) discusses the big winners and the big losers....and that thing that happened that everyone else...
| March 31, 2022
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The 94th Academy Awards (or . . . He Who Gets Slapped) – an editorial

The 94th Academy Awards (or . . . He Who Gets Slapped) – an editorial

NOTE: This essay is purely an editorial.] Under normal circumstances, Tuesday after the Oscars is the moment when the award show starts to slip from...
| March 29, 2022
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