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“One of the blessings and obsessions of the cinematic eye is intensely observing the faces of great actors telegraphing conflicting emotions through the subtlest movements. It’s in the way a mouth may tighten while the eyes are trying to look soft and kind, or the terse body language that contrasts” read more
“I both loved and hated this movie. My feelings towards it and about the ways in which it tackles its various subjects has not settled with time. Vice is a political hit job, a takedown of American media, and an indictment of political dynasties throwing us into never-ending conflicts and quagmires o” read more
“Let’s check in with Ralph and Vanellope after six years and see what’s new. Well, they’ve established a fun pattern of spending the day in their games, drinking root beers at Tapper’s, then talking the night away before repeating the cycle over again. But there’s a rippling in their friend” read more
“If there’s subgenre of prestige filmmaking I’d happily never have to see again, it’s the feel-good movie about racism. It’s your movies like The Help, Driving Miss Daisy, the types that orientate the narrative about America’s racial strife around good hearted white liberals that solve the ” read more
“Well, I’m surprised by just how much I enjoyed this tale of art forgery and “companionable alienation,” as Chuck Bowen of Slant put it so masterfully. Can You Ever Forgive Me? is a whooper of a true story that narrows its scope down to the twin points of the criminal activity and the deliciou” read more
“Bohemian Rhapsody isn’t a movie. It’s a regurgitation of Freddie Mercury’s Wikipedia page for a little over two hours. Oh, were you hoping to learn anything else about the other members of Queen? Too bad, so sad, as they’re regulated to Mercury’s merry band of sidekicks (despite whatever l” read more
“The Last Five Years requires a more visionary mind to make the central conceit work on film, and Richard LaGravenese is not that director. He’s a wonderful writer (The Fisher King, Behind the Candelabra), but he’s something of a point-and-shoot style director. Sometimes this works to the narrati” read more
“The horror genre is already overpopulated with an emotional hysteria regarding sex and emotional vulnerability, a strange moralism that must destroy all but the virginal would-be bride to the monster, and It Follows is merely obsessed with this strand running through the genre. The film is entirely ” read more
“Yorgos Lanthimos is one hell of an idiosyncratic auteur. Not just in his use of fishbowl lenses, or the darkly humorous conceits, or the generally corrosive aura that permeates every scene, but in his overall choices of unconventional, occasionally incoherent material. The Favourite keeps up his str” read more
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
“Untethered from the basic physics of live-action cinema, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse becomes the clearest, purest example of a comic book brought to fully realized cinematic life. A bit of Jack Kirby’s crackle here, a little bit of old school techniques there, and the whole thing is populate” read more
“The clear progeny of Robert Altman’s The Long Goodbye, itself a noir story filmed with detached air quotes, The Big Lebowski is both a love letter and complete deconstruction of the Raymond Chandler style of dense, incomprehensible crime story. Oh, it’s also a merrily sardonic film filled to the” read more
“Ok, let’s give DreamWorks some credit here, they managed to release a film with a female lead before Pixar. Monsters vs. Aliens came out in 2009, and it wouldn’t be until 2012’s Brave that Pixar would catch-up with their rival on that feat. I’m not saying this is the only bit of positive cri” read more
“The innocence of the Winnie the Pooh movies is what engages me the most about them. Here’s an hour, sometimes more but frequently not by much, of gentle, quiet humor, loveable characters, and a complete lack of irony, snark, and pop culture references. The creatures of Hundred Acre Woods learn lif” read more
Pocahontas II: Journey to the New World
“Jesus Christ Disney… look, you guys played fast and loose with historical facts bad enough in the first one, but this is especially egregious. Watching these two films back-to-back is a textbook example of colonialism rewriting the historical narrative from the point-of-view of the “winners.” ” read more
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“Have you ever thought that what the film adaptation of a Noel Coward play needed was Jazz Age covers of “Car Wash” and “Sex Bomb”? Me neither, but Easy Virtue has them, and a few random musical numbers as well. Sure, the sight of Ben Barnes crooning some Cole Porter is enough to make me quiv” read more
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
“Who exactly was the target audience for this movie? There’s too much adult humor for the kids, it’s too juvenile for the adults, and it’s flagrant in its disregard for Dr. Seuss’ words and themes to please fans of his work. I suppose fans of Jim Carrey’s free associative overacting will fi” read more