Jared Hess

Reviews

Gentlemen Broncos

By Renee Scolaro Mora

Even as Gentlemen Broncos makes sport of artistic hacks, it also delights in their creative process. [6 November 2009]

Nacho Libre (2006)

By Cynthia Fuchs

On one hand another formulaic loutish white boy saga, it also undercuts that premise, at least intermittently, offering instead a vision of unregulatable, unanxious, unwhite masculinity. [16 June 2006]

Napoleon Dynamite: Like the Best Special Edition Ever (2004)

By Bill Gibron

Napoleon Dynamite argues not only for the experience of being misunderstood, but also the gradual acceptance of knowing one is misunderstood. [15 June 2006]

Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

By Jesse Hassenger

Heder's physical details -- mouth agape, low voice, frequent exhales of discomforted disgust -- make for a terrifically funny and assured performance. [17 June 2004]