Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter offers a full-throated sequel that’s thick with references to earlier films.
Fashion Will Eat Itself: The Empty Stylism of The Neon Demon
We’re so pretty, oh so pretty … vacant.
Expectation vs Reality: Marketing Collateral Beauty and Passengers
There’s a gulf of difference between the trailers for Collateral Beauty and Passengers and the films themselves…or is there?
An Alliance Divided: Rogue One’s “Star Wars Story”
Rogue One resists the mythic fairytale storytelling of its forebears while needing that same myth to justify its existence.
Moana (2016)
Moana wraps a Polynesian folk tale around a charming children’s film, populated with animal sidekicks and musical numbers. When these two threads are woven together well, the film sings like Disney’s best.
Queen of Katwe (2016)
Disney’s underdog Ugandan chess story digs a little deeper into the difficulties of overcoming disadvantage.
Burgers and Lies: The Founder Repackages the Corrupt Capitalism Biopic
The movie about a man who achieved success by stealing other people’s ideas borrows liberally from other films itself.
The Bacchus Lady (2016)
Trust South Korea to turn a film about elderly sex workers into a black comedy.
The Fencer (2015)
Part underdog sports story, part post-war resistance narrative, The Fencer finds resistance in the smallest thrusts and parries.
Expanding the Potterverse in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them is a fun-spirited, nimble adventure when it’s not committing some of the sins of universe-expanding.
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