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Marshall Shaffer

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As seen in: IMDb, MSN, Yahoo Entertainment, Yahoo Life, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News UK, Substack, Flipboard, IndieWire, Men's Health and
Covers:  Film and entertainment, primarily new theatrical releases or festival coverage. Occasionally, I do interviews, features and event coverage.
Doesn't Cover: Entertainment news. Not interested in publishing your trailer, red carpet pictures, etc.
Freelance writer frequently seen on @slant_magazine, @decider, @theplaylistnews, and @crookedmarquee. We'll get along.

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Interview: John Wilson on ‘The History of Concrete’ and Finding His Art Through Limitation

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By Marshall Shaffer Verified
| Slant Magazine Verified
Among its virtues, John Wilson’s The History of Concrete may come to be seen as the first New York movie of the Zohran Mamdani era. It certainly helps that the DIY filmmaker, best known for his series How To with John Wilson, has since teamed with the mayor on a video highlighting another prominent feature of the city’s architecture: sidewalk sheds. Yet it’s more than this convenient partnership that cements (pun intended) the status of Wilson’s feature directorial debut as a movie of the moment.
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‘The Mosquito Bowl’ Review: Peter Berg Brings Gridiron Glory & WWII Carnage To Life In Visceral Drama

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By Marshall Shaffer Verified
| The Playlist Verified
Marshall Shaffer Marshall Shaffer is a freelance film critic and journalist based in New York. In addition to The Playlist, his byline can be found at sites including Slant Magazine, Decider, Crooked Marquee, and Men's Health. He is a member of the Critics Choice Association and New York Film Critics Online. Peter Berg combines the gridiron and the battlefield in a technically impressive but emotionally uneven WWII drama starring Tom Francis, Ray Nicholson, Bill Skarsgård, and Nicholas Galitzine.
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Interview: Lance Hammer on ‘Queen at Sea’ and Making Art That Refuses Moral Certainty

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By Marshall Shaffer Verified
| Slant Magazine Verified
Lance Hammer’s second feature, Queen at Sea, adheres to a similar storytelling hook as Ballast, his 2008 feature-length directorial debut. Both films chart the cascading consequences of a startling violation of the flesh that serves as their inciting incident. The suicide that sets Ballast in motion is hard to spin as anything other than calamitous for the victim’s family members. But the sex scene that opens Queen at Sea proves far thornier in its complications.
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