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About Andrew Plimpton

Andrew Plimpton is a writer living in Western Massachusetts. His plays have been performed at The Tank in New York City; his fiction has appeared in Silo. He was a reader for The Paris Review from 2019 to 2021, and has written for Film Forward since 2018.

The Short History of the Long Road

A teenager copes with the loss of her father and strives to survive on her own during a cross-country trek.

By |June 16th, 2020|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Road Trip|0 Comments

Judy & Punch

The script walks a sometimes uneasy line between genuine darkness and a Monty Python–esque embrace of anachronism and the bizarre.

By |June 4th, 2020|Australian, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

Lucky Grandma

An expert and affecting blend of genres (thriller, comedy, gangster film).

By |May 29th, 2020|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Top Picks|0 Comments

12 Hour Shift | Tribeca Film Festival 2020

A dark screwball comedy set in a seedy Arkansas hospital in the late 1990s.

By |May 15th, 2020|Festivals, Tribeca Film Festival|0 Comments

The Half of It | Tribeca Film Festival 2020

It’s perhaps an understatement to say this teen comedy yields to clichés. Yet, it avoids stereotypes and subverts a few classic tropes too.

By |May 15th, 2020|DVD/Streaming/On Demand, Festivals, Teen|0 Comments

Cowboys | Tribeca Film Festival 2020

The drama’s greatest strength is that writer/director Anna Kerrigan opts for nuance.

By |May 11th, 2020|Family drama, Festivals|0 Comments

True History of the Kelly Gang

Striking, at times exhilarating, but ultimately uneven, the adaptation of Peter Carey's novel is a fascinating addition to the depictions of the outlaw Ned Kelly.

By |April 23rd, 2020|Book adaptation, Crime, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

Clover

A crime films that clearly aims to emulate Quentin Tarantino, Guy Ritchie, and Martin McDonough.

By |April 2nd, 2020|Crime, DVD/Streaming/On Demand|0 Comments

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

Eliza Hittman’s third feature is richly rewarding as well as political, and this aspect is neither overstated nor shied away from.

By |March 13th, 2020|Teen, Top Picks|1 Comment