Curt Holman

Film and Theater Critic

Curt Holman was first published in Creative Loafing in 1993. A longtime film critic and former president of the Southeastern Film Critics Association, he also writes about television, theater, books and Southern culture. He has been published in local and national publications and has won the Green Eyeshades Award for Criticism and the Association of Alternate Newspapers’ award for Arts Criticism. Since 2016 he has co-hosted the Comics Canon podcast, reviewing the great comic book stories of yesterday and today. Follow him on Twitter at @Curt_Holman and on Letterboxd at Curt_Holman.

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Thursday February 22, 2024 04:14 PM EST
Spectacular ‘Dune: Part Two’ improves on predecessor in every way | more...

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Tuesday December 19, 2023 12:05 PM EST
The funniest things about the films of 2023 | more...

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Wednesday November 1, 2023 12:00 AM EDT
Short films give major directors the chance to experiment | more...

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Friday September 1, 2023 04:51 PM EDT
The 36th annual festival includes local LGBTQ films and filmmakers | more...

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Thursday June 1, 2023 08:49 AM EDT
‘You Hurt My Feelings’ questions whether honesty is the best policy | more...

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Tuesday April 25, 2023 06:26 PM EDT
What’s the best show on TV in a streaming age? | more...

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Saturday April 1, 2023 02:13 PM EDT
Have Atlanta-shot blockbusters become a Monkey’s Paw situation? | more...

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Wednesday March 1, 2023 03:37 PM EST
Can indie movie houses specialize their way to success? | more...

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Thursday February 2, 2023 02:16 PM EST
The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival returns to theaters | more...

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Thursday December 1, 2022 06:06 PM EST
The Tara Theatre is, well, gone with the wind | more...

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Saturday November 12, 2022 05:17 PM EST
‘Black Panther’ sequel pays tribute to Chadwick Boseman’s untimely death | more...

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Tuesday September 6, 2022 04:49 PM EDT
Atlanta hostage crisis inspires respectful, complex suspense drama | more...

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Friday July 8, 2022 10:50 AM EDT
The company began modestly in 2013 | more...

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Monday June 20, 2022 06:36 AM EDT
How Atlanta moviegoing has transformed over the decades | more...

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Wednesday May 4, 2022 02:49 PM EDT
‘Walking Dead,’ ‘Stranger Things,’” and ‘Atlanta’ will all wind down in 2022 | more...
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Monday December 22, 2008 09:40 PM EST
Housewives, death sentences and Milk. | more...

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Thursday November 29, 2007 03:57 PM EST

If you’ve got a copy of this week’s print edition of Creative Loafing, you’ll notice a tidy little Holiday Guide “themed” issue that includes our cover package as well as related items in our Vibes, Flicks, Arts and Food & Drink sections. Please enjoy!

But for all you hip, savvy readers online, there’s lagniappe aplenty, including expanded versions of the top five events of the season in...

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Thursday March 15, 2012 09:57 AM EDT
Scott Henry, Chante LaGon, and Curt Holman also laid off | more...

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Thursday October 29, 2009 06:30 PM EDT

image-1Zombies have become so popular that the corridors of our pop culture resound with ravenous moans for “Braaaiinns!” White Zombie, screening Saturday at the Plaza Theatre’s Silver Scream Spook Show, offers a kitschy reminder that the living dead weren’t always the decomposing cannibals of George Romero.

Follow the trail of body parts back a few decades, and...

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Thursday November 26, 2009 02:24 PM EST

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In the documentary Crude, Brothers Keeper director Joe Berlinger presents a courtroom drama that never takes place in a courtroom. The grim but engrossing film recounts the tactics and history of a civil lawsuit filed by thousands of native Ecuadoreans who allege that Texaco (now Chevron) polluted vast areas of the rain forest with oil, leading to contaminated drinking water and...

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Wednesday November 4, 2009 12:00 PM EST

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The establishment seems more firmly established in England than anywhere else. Two terrific new British films depict prodigiously intelligent characters who challenge entrenched English institutions and nearly outsmart themselves along the way. The protagonists of the soccer movie The Damned United and the coming-of-age romance An Education fit in the rebellious, angry young man...

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Friday November 20, 2009 11:35 PM EST

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Medical narratives often depict ordinary people who turn to alternative healing methods when traditional Western health care fails. Seldom can you find families that go to the lengths of Rupert Isaacson and Kristen Neff, who traveled from Austin, Texas, to the steppes of Mongolia with the hopes of improving their son Rowan’s autistic condition.

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Wednesday November 11, 2009 12:00 PM EST

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Even if you’ve never heard the name Oliver Hirschbiegel, there’s a strong chance you’ve seen his work. The German filmmaker directed Downfall, the superb 2004 drama about the Third Reich’s final days. Last year, a clip of Bruno Ganz’s Hitler chewing out his underlings became a YouTube hit when an online prankster rewrote the subtitles so the scene depicted...

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Thursday October 8, 2009 01:00 PM EDT

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I learned more from Chris Rock’s documentary Good Hair than I did from all the other films and plays I’ve seen about African-American beauty parlors and barbershops put together. As a white guy with straight hair (and seemingly less of it every day), subjects like weaves and relaxers tend to be terra incognita. Even black audiences might view African-American hairstyle issues...

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Wednesday November 4, 2009 04:17 PM EST

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Though only 17 years old, Clareece “Precious” Jones (Gabourey Sidibe) suffers enough misfortunes for several Greek tragedies remounted in 1987 Harlem. Precious’ title character endures obesity, illiteracy, a baby with Down syndrome and a sociopathically hostile, selfish mother (Mo’Nique) — and those are just the preliminaries. When Precious gets warmed up,...

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Monday February 15, 2010 09:40 PM EST
Is Jocelin Donahue this generation’s Jamie Lee Curtis? | more...

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Friday October 16, 2009 12:00 PM EDT
image-1Spike Jonze and Dave Eggers’ Where the Wild Things Are remembers something most adults have forgotten: A huge gulf lies between the simplicity of children’s entertainment and the complexity of actual childhood. Growing up may be a time of pure delight, but it also features stretches of agonizing boredom, sudden fright, occasional sorrow and general perplexity at the arbitrary... | more...

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Thursday October 15, 2009 06:00 PM EDT
image-1Any cultural inferiority the United States feels toward the French will only be exacerbated by New York, I Love You. The anthology film follows the same model as 2008’s art house hit Paris, Je t’aime in offering a series of tales, mostly about love, on the streets of a cosmopolitan city. Both films showcase directors from around the world, but where Paris features work from such... | more...

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Monday October 19, 2009 09:15 PM EDT

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A decade after filling America with pants-wetting fear, The Blair Witch Project still haunts Hollywood. Filmmakers emulate its faux-documentary, first-person narrative style, while studios seek the next no-budget horror flick that can become a $100 million word-of-mouth hit. Paramount Pictures bets that Oren Peli’s Paranormal Activity will similarly set pulses and bladders...

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Friday November 20, 2009 05:00 AM EST

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The prologue to the warm-n-fuzzy sports story The Blind Side plays so well, it’s like seeing a team return an opening kickoff to score a touchdown. A Southern-accented Sandra Bullock narrates an insider’s perspective on the five fateful seconds that cost the Washington Redskins’ Joe Theismann his career. Michael Lewis’ book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game...

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