Some time in the past ten years or so, Hollywood realized that all the most mainstream sports were far too well-worn to continuously wring out for cash. In lieu of releasing yet another “inspiring” story about football, baseball, or boxing, they...
I’m honestly a bit lukewarm on the Marvel Cinematic Universe. I think what they’re doing is pretty cool in execution, and I’ll admit I have fun when I watch them. However, with the exception of every 8 films or so feeling like a real spectacle...
The bar for The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part was unexpectedly high. Due to the enormous success, both commercially and artistically, of the first entry in the series, a litany of spin-offs both great (LEGO Batman) and meh (LEGO Ninjago, which...
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...
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