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The Best Films of the 2010s: Under the Skin
Simon Abrams on our staff choice for the 7th best film of the 2010s, Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin.
Simon Abrams is a native New Yorker and freelance film critic whose work has been featured in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Village Voice, and elsewhere.
Simon started his career as an arts critic in high school, writing comics reviews for The Comics Journal. He conducted the cover interview with writer Robert Kirkman in issue #289. After writing film reviews for The New York Press and Slant Magazine, Simon wrote film reviews for the Voice, contributing feature interviews and capsule reviews for six years. He's currently working on a couple of book projects, including a history of movie gore (with his Guillermo del Toro's Devil's Backbone co-author Matt Zoller Seitz).
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Simon Abrams on our staff choice for the 7th best film of the 2010s, Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin.
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