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Karl Delossantos

Hey, I'm Karl, founder and film critic at Smash Cut. I started Smash Cut in 2014 to share my love of movies and give a perspective I haven't yet seen represented. I'm also an editor at The New York Times, a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, and a member of the Online Film Critics Society.

‘Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe’ is YA movie goals | TIFF review

ComedyKarl DelossantosSeptember 13, 20221
Max Pelayo and Reese Gonzales in Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. Courtesy of TIFF.

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe follows two teen boys growing up in Texas in the 1980s as they uncover their identities through their friendship

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Queer military drama ‘The Inspection’ asks and tells | TIFF review

DramaKarl DelossantosSeptember 9, 20221
Jeremy Pope in The Inspection. Courtesy of TIFF.
A homeless young gay man enlists in the Marines as a way out of his struggle in The Inspection. As he goes through boot camp, he grapples with his masculinity and queerness. The Inspection is a deeply personal look into a queer Black man's experience in Marine boot camp and how his struggles lead him…
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‘Barbarian’ is for the camp horror girlies | review

HorrorKarl DelossantosSeptember 7, 2022
Georgina Campbell as Tess in 20th Century Studios' BARBARIAN, exclusively on Hulu. Photo courtesy of 20th Century Studios. © 2022 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.

Barbarian follows a woman staying in an Airbnb in a rough neighborhood of Detroit who gets more than she bargains for when she finds a man already staying there.

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‘Aftersun’ is a masterpiece of memory | review and analysis

DramaKarl DelossantosSeptember 5, 2022
Francesca Corio and Paul Mescal in Aftersun.

Aftersun follows the childhood memory of a girl on vacation with her father to the Turkish coast. But where there’s sun there is also shadow.

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‘Orphan: First Kill’ is the campy sequel we didn’t know we needed | movie review

HorrorKarl DelossantosAugust 20, 2022
Isabelle Fuhrman as Esther in the Horror/Thriller/Mystery film, ORPHAN: FIRST KILL , a Paramount Pictures release. © 2022 Paramount Pictures.
Esther, the titular Orphan from 2009's cult classic, makes her triumphant return in Orphan: First Kill, an origin story prequel that you didn't know you needed. Orphan: First Kill doubles down on the original's wacky premise to deliver a deliciously campy prequel that will please fans of the first movie and convert a few new…
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‘Beast’ roars for your attention | movie review

ActionKarl DelossantosAugust 18, 2022
Idris Elba as Nathan in Beast, directed by Baltasar Kormákur.
In Beast, a doctor and his two young daughters find themselves at the wrong end of a lion's taste for vengeance as they become trapped in the South African bush Over the running time of Beast, wildlife biologist and animal sanctuary protector Martin (Sharlto Copley) remarks a few times that what is happening isn't normal.…
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‘Prey’ gives The Predator new life | movie review

ActionKarl DelossantosAugust 4, 20221
(L-R): Amber Midthunder as Naru and Dane DeLiegro as the Predator in 20th Century Studios' PREY, exclusively on Hulu. Photo by David Bukach. © 2022 20th Century Studios. All Rights Reserved.

A young Native American woman in the 1700s hunts down a vicious other-worldly predator terrorizing her tribe’s land. Or is it hunting her?

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Jordan Peele’s ‘Nope’ is a chopped and screwed summer blockbuster | review and analysis

ActionKarl DelossantosJuly 20, 2022
Keke Palmer as Emerald Haywood in Nope, written, produced and directed by Jordan Peele.

Nope follows two siblings that become convinced that UFOs are visiting their ranch to abduct horses. Seeing a path to fortune, they set out to capture it on video.

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‘Thor: Love and Thunder’ leans into weirdness and queerness | movie review

ActionKarl DelossantosJuly 7, 2022
Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth in Thor: Love and Thunder. Courtesy of Disney.

In his fourth solo outing, Thor: Love and Thunder finds Thor and Valkyrie align with an unlikely new hero to take down a villain with a taste for revenge.

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‘Broker’ is a misfit family road trip | Cannes movie review

ComedyKarl DelossantosMay 29, 2022
IU in Hirokazu Kore-eda's Broker, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival

Hirokazu Kore-eda follows a group of misfits that form a would-be family as they trek across Korea to sell a recently “abandoned” baby in Broker

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