Hereditary Upends the Familiar Rhythms of Horror Films
Like many horror films, Hereditary corrupts the familial safety of domesticity, but it inverts the traditional perspective.
The Boys (1998)
The Boys is a disturbingly putrid portrait of Australian masculinity at its worst.
Jasper Jones (2017)
Using an unexplained death to examine small town politics is a well-established trope. Why doesn’t it seem to work in Jasper Jones?
xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)
A xXx movie doesn’t make a whole lot of sense in 2017, but maybe it doesn’t need to.
Miss You Already (2015)
Pack your tissues, it’s time for a weepy melodrama where the relationships are bumpy and the illnesses terminal. I feel no regret disclosing that last bit since Miss You Already’s title betrays the unfortunate fate of perky mother-of-two, Milly (Toni Collette). Indeed this film is content rolling out its by-the-numbers plot relying on the performances…
A Long Way Down (2014)
A Long Way Down begins with a potentially promising premise before it falls, well, you know, <gestures vaguely towards title>. For a film that opens with a suicidal quartet meeting atop a London skyscraper on New Year’s Eve, it demonstrates little actual interest in examining suicide, despites its half-hearted feints at undergraduate psychology. Instead A…
The Way, Way Back (2013)
The Way, Way Back is a lightweight coming-of-age summer holiday comedy/drama, often funny but rarely convincingly dramatic. Much like After May, it places at its centre an actor not quite up to the task – here, Liam James as the introverted, awkward teenager Duncan. He’s not supposed to be particularly charismatic, but James finds little…
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