Azazel Jacobs

Exclaim!'s 20 Best Films of 2024

PUBLISHED Dec 2, 2024

Even with the effects of last year's writer and actor strikes lingering, 2024 managed to churn out some grand blockbusters and thought...

'French Exit' Highlights the Ennui Only the Wealthy Are Afforded

Directed by Azazel Jacobs

PUBLISHED Jun 14, 2021

Frances Price's listless, privileged life is riddled by clichés. After the suspicious death of her husband, her fortune dwindles, leaving t...

The Lovers

Directed by Azazel Jacobs

PUBLISHED May 18, 2017

Writer-director Azazel Jacobs (2011's Terri) has done the nearly impossible: He's made a film with unlikeable characters doing morally repr...

Terri

Azazel Jacobs

PUBLISHED Oct 14, 2011

Anyone complacent in the status quo would have a hard time appreciating or even interpreting Terri, a drearily realist comic teen film that...

Terri

Azazel Jacobs

PUBLISHED Aug 18, 2011

In the interest of being accessible to a broader audience, or smoothing over possible viewer discomfort, most films about outsiders tend to...