I was so looking forward to Serenity when the first trailer came out. As a fan of the film noir genre, and especially the neo-noir subgenre, the promise of a sexy noir thriller starring Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway, written and directed...
It’s always disappointing when a great dictator shoves their head up their own ass. That’s what Vice often feels like: while Adam McKay is a fine director, and there’s some great moments in editing and especially acting, there is a sense of...
I do not exaggerate when I say there hasn’t been a film like Roma in almost seventy years. Not since the days of Orson Welles and Yasujirō Ozu has there been a film as rich, alive, subtle, grandiose, and honest as what Alfonso Cuarón has...
Green Book is a generic film. I don’t mean that as the slur that many people will interpret it as. I mean that Peter Farrelly’s “inspired by a true story” dramedy adheres to the rules of genre filmmaking as closely as possible. It uses every...
Rami Malek is astonishingly brilliant in Bohemian Rhapsody. The way he moves, the way he acts, the pathos he brings to the talent of Freddie Mercury, the lead singer of innovative, beloved rock group (and one of my all-time favorite bands) Queen...
In a lot of ways, Mary Poppins Returns is the same film as Disney’s previous live action endeavor this year, Christopher Robin. They both involve grown-up protagonists from previous films receiving visits from the magical heroes of their...
On its surface, The Favourite should be a lot of different things. It should be a historical period piece. It should be a political thriller. It should be a satirical think piece about how absolute power corrupts absolutely, about how our...
The rape-and-revenge story has been a go-to myth going all the way back to the Greek tragedy. The reason, as exploitative as it is, is simple: no crime is as gruesome as rape (after all, a murder victim doesn’t have to live with the trauma), and...
(Ed. Note: I first saw First Reformed back in June, and instantly fell in love with it. I started writing a review, got 3/4ths through it, and then put it aside to finish at a later date. Other reviews pushed it further and further back in my...
David Gordon Green’s newest entry in the Halloween saga is the best case you can hope for in a sequel to a story that really doesn’t need a sequel. It’s got some scares, it’s well made, and there’s a deeper message somewhere in the film’s inner...
First Man is an all-American bonafide classic; a master class in how to make a great movie. Damien Chazelle has been trying to prove himself an auteur since he arrived on the scene eight years ago, and if there were any doubt left that he...
At one point near the end of the fourth iteration of A Star Is Born, a character states, “Music is essentially just the same 12 notes. 12 notes and the octave repeats. It’s the same story told over and over, and all an artist can do is share how...
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