The wages of fear
Horror is human in It Comes at Night
Too much has already been said about It Comes at Night, a completely insidious and utterly unsettling new horror film that continues to worm its … Continue reading
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Wonder Woman
Going into battle to save the world of men because it’s the right thing to do
Why do superheroes do what they do? It’s a question often answered with a glib oversimplification: It’s the right thing. When you’ve developed a super-suit … Continue reading
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Liev Schreiber shines as the real-life fighter who inspired Rocky in the quiet, moving Chuck
Alongside baseball, the sport of boxing has provided a seemingly inexhaustible supply of stories for movies to tell. Brutal, lonely and intimately attuned to the … Continue reading
In Space, No One Can Hear You Yawn
Director Ridley Scott turns the face-hugger on you with the wretched, cynical Alien: Covenant
Ponderous, pornographic and unforgivably dull, Alien: Covenant proves once and for all that Ridley Scott is the single biggest hack in contemporary Hollywood — a … Continue reading
Death of a Salesman
In the political satire Norman, Richard Gere plays a small-time con with the juice to topple governments
Whether aging is kind to an actor seems to be largely a matter of choice, and by extension, integrity. Often, great actors getting on in … Continue reading
Under a Bomber’s Moon
About a team of British filmmakers during the Blitz, Their Finest is a movie for people who love the movies
Some movies make me talk, others shut me up good. After watching Lars von Trier’s Melancholia, for example, I couldn’t talk for two hours. Total … Continue reading
#NOPE
Tech thriller The Circle founders on false dichotomies and a lack of direction
Within the first few minutes of The Circle, a tiresome cinematic exercise in false dichotomies, Mae (Emma Watson) tells a friend that she’ll send him … Continue reading
Monsters Far Away and Close to Home
Though missing the mark, Colossal remains an intriguing failure of a film
A carousing alcoholic with a tendency toward blackout, Gloria (the excellent Anne Hathaway) saunters home at sunrise one morning to find that her boyfriend, Tim … Continue reading
All in the Family
Playing fast and loose with reality as Diesel goes rogue in The Fate of the Furious
There are several spoilable things in The Fate of the Furious, and most of them have to do with family — “family” being the eight-film … Continue reading
Perfect Day Past
Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting sequel, T2, takes a look at the old gang, 20 years later
Danny Boyle’s Trainspotting, released in 1996, felt instantly mythic. A grubby, inspired adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s novel that stars a vibrant, nearly vibrating Ewan McGregor, … Continue reading