Say what you will about Guillermo del Toro, his films are aesthetically unlike anything you’ll ever see. Fresh off his Oscar win for The Shape of Water, del Toro turns his fantastical gaze to the classic 40s noir Nightmare Alley, an infamously...
There are few genres as overwhelmingly popular as the feel-good sports drama. One can trace the history all the way back to Ronald Reagan’s most celebrated role in Knute Rockne: All American, and follow it through to modern history, with The...
It is going to be a tough challenge to make it through this review of Joel Coen’s latest film without using the “M” word. I don’t mean Macbeth, the word accursed in the theatrical realm and often replaced with “The Scottish Play.” No, I mean...
I’ve only seen one Céline Sciamma film to date, and it was 2019’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire. Therefore, I had no idea what to expect with Sciamma’s newest film, Petite Maman. Maman could have been so many different things after Sciamma’s...
Honestly, the world needs more angry comedies. Great filmmakers once made scathing satires about how the world is inherently broken, and there’s not much to be done in order to fix it. Films like Dr. Strangelove, and Citizen Kane, and Network...
Few directors can place you so firmly in their world like Paul Thomas Anderson. From Hard Eight to Phantom Thread, Anderson has explored life’s messy realities with heart and humor, whether it involves Golden Age porn stars, stoner detectives...
I can think of no more of a foolhardy gesture than remaking West Side Story. I don’t care if you’re Steven Spielberg, one of the last living legends of the craft. It’s just taboo, like remaking Citizen Kane, or Ben-Hur (the latter of which was...
If there’s one thing that David Lowery is good at, it’s creating an immersive film experience. Whatever the general tone of his film may be – from the childlike innocence of Pete’s Dragon to the morose dread of A Ghost Story – Lowery creates a...
I’m not sure, as I begin to write this, how to quantify this piece on Bo Burnham’s recent special, Inside. Will it be a review? A Friday Night Dinner essay? A personal piece? I’m not entirely sure. I suppose that’s fitting, as Inside itself tends...
Aaron Sorkin has had a tough time getting Being The Ricardos to the big screen. First, there was backlash that Nicole Kidman wasn’t right for the iconic Lucille Ball, and that Javier Bardem was Spanish and a solid three feet taller than the Cuban...
The reason a superhero movie works is relatively simple: it finds the best aspects of our morality, and it amplifies it on a massive scale. Because there are so many Marvel movies at this point (indeed, an industry-crushing amount), this message...
In 2016, Pablo Larraín released Jackie, a deep psychological exploration of fame, power, and the creation of myths involving one of the United States’ most famous First Ladies. It was an acting tour-du-force, brilliant and insightful and...
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