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Chuck Wilson

Chuck Wilson is a regular film contributor at Voice Media Group. VMG publications include Denver Westword, Miami New Times, Phoenix New Times, Dallas Observer, Houston Press and New Times Broward-Palm Beach.

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Barry Jenkins’s If Beale Street Could Talk Does James Baldwin Proud

By Chuck Wilson
Dec 24, 2018

Baldwin’s central story, dialogue and time-jumping narrative structure are all in place, but so, too, is a sumptuous visual style that serves to deepen the novelist’s themes of racial injustice and the powerful countering force of love
Chalamet, Carell Face Cycles of Addiction in Tender Beautiful Boy

By Chuck Wilson
Oct 22, 2018

For Nic and his family, rehab becomes sobriety becomes relapse, a pitiless cycle of hope and disappointment too many of us will experience at one time or another, either as addict or loved one
The Truth About Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare Is Pretty Sorry

By Chuck Wilson
Apr 12, 2018

Fresh ideas are rare in the horror game, so it’s not surprising that Truth or Dare quickly devolves into a riff on the Final Destination films, which had Death wittily and methodically hunting those it failed to nab in plane crashes and other disasters
With A Quiet Place, John Krasinski Has Crafted a Horror Great

By Chuck Wilson
Apr 3, 2018

... The ground rules for this desolate new America: Make any sort of sharp, unexpected sound and a mantis-like alien creature will zoom out of nowhere to swoop you away to an instant, grisly death
Tom of Finland Gives a Boldly Gay Artist the Too-Polite Movie Treatment

By Chuck Wilson
Dec 7, 2017

When same-sex marriage became legal in Finland this past March, the government celebrated by releasing an official emoji — a leather-clad man with a drooping mustache and a police-style cap emblazoned with the word “Tom.” No explanation was necessary, for “Tom” was clearly a nod to Tom of Finland —...