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Joe Sacksteder

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Joe Sacksteder is a PhD candidate at the University of Utah, where he's managing editor of Quarterly West. You can find his work online at Sleepingfish, Passages North, Florida Review, Hobart, Booth, DREGINALD, and elsewhere.
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The Rumpus Review of It Comes at Night

  • Joe Sacksteder
  • June 22, 2017
“It” does not even “come” in the traditional sense. These primal, atavistic qualities are with us all the time, lying dormant until the right situation coaxes them forth.
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The Rumpus Review of Rogue One

  • Joe Sacksteder
  • January 12, 2017
So, what would populist ideology even look like in Star Wars?
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The Rumpus Review of One More Time with Feeling

  • Joe Sacksteder
  • September 22, 2016
“We didn’t ask for it,” Cave begins another poetic flight, and again we think he’s talking about something ghastly, “but it’s all around us, a gratuitous beauty.”
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The Rumpus Review of The Witch

  • Joe Sacksteder
  • March 10, 2016
The most interesting part of The Witch is that the family is so convinced of humanity’s fallen, sinful nature that it never occurs to them to even look for an aggressor from without.
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The Saturday Rumpus Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens

  • Joe Sacksteder
  • January 9, 2016
However, it’s taken me too long to say: The Force Awakens really is a fun and breathtaking movie
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The Saturday Rumpus Review: 99 Homes

  • Joe Sacksteder
  • November 14, 2015
99 Homes continues Bahrani’s tendency to take on big topics, to cut them into chewable pieces for its audience
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The Saturday Rumpus Review of Ex Machina

  • Joe Sacksteder
  • May 9, 2015
Ex Machina is pretty adept at tricking viewers into thinking we’re smarter than the film.
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Detroit New Hollywood Vegas: Notes from an Extra

  • Joe Sacksteder
  • September 26, 2014
Juliette Lewis will decide to stage dive onto just me. Later, Drew Barrymore will make Alia Shawkat cry in front of a hundred extras. Later, Juno will face-plant. Hard.
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The Rumpus Review of Palo Alto

  • Joe Sacksteder
  • July 11, 2014
Director and screenwriter Gia Coppola has done an amazing job of distilling a cohesive narrative from Franco’s disparate stories...
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