Eighth Grade Explore Awkwardness in the Social Media Generation
While Eighth Grade is a reminder that I don’t want to relive eighth grade, its success will hopefully herald more genuinely contemporary coming-of-age films.
Vice Makes Political Corruption Fun
Vice makes contemporary politics fun and funny while underlining its monstrous corruption.
The Family-Friendly Films of the ‘80s Are Alive in Bumblebee
Bumblebee eschews the Escherian excess and all-out warfare of Michael Bay’s films for clean compositions and comparative spatial clarity.
Widows: The Genre Film That Isn’t
But Widows exhibits cosmetic similarities with the heist genre, it resolutely resists generic conventions.
Foxtrot Explores the Numbing Mundanity of Modern War
Israeli drama Foxtrot evinces a restless creativity that’s occasionally exhausting but often compelling.
Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald Is a Muddied, Incoherent Addition to the Harry Potter Universe
The problem with Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald is that it’s trying to do way too much.
Seven Mortal Sins
For better or worse, Seven Mortal Sins is the epitome of ecchi anime.
Tangled Between Techno-Thriller and James-Bond-esque Action: The Girl in the Spider’s Web
We watch Bond movies to be transported to glossy locations and marvel at beautiful people, not to trudge through underlit apartment buildings in the depths of winter.
David Gordon Green’s Halloween Plays Tribute to a Perfect Slasher Film
The smartest decision behind Halloween 2018 is to treat it as a tribute rather than trying to equal Carpenter’s superlative work.
A Star is Born is Old-Fashioned Musical Melodrama Done Right…Mostly
The measure of success for a melodrama is simple: does it move you? In that respect, A Star is Born is an unqualified triumph.
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