Character-Driven Comedy Gets Too Wrapped Up In Its Own Chaos
I’ll Be Right There could have been an overly-Hollywoodified, cheesy movie. The first 20 minutes of the film enticed and concerned me. While well told, the film had all the…
I’ll Be Right There could have been an overly-Hollywoodified, cheesy movie. The first 20 minutes of the film enticed and concerned me. While well told, the film had all the…
When Joker premiered here in Venice in 2019, one of the prevailing narratives was that the movie could be dangerous. The film’s embrace of Arthur Fleck’s perspective, the thinking went,…
Netflix’s latest action thriller, Rebel Ridge, updates the genre with skill and attention while harkening back to the classic movies that inspired it. It stars Aaron Pierre as Terry Richmond,…
I haven’t read the William S. Burroughs novel that Queer is adapted from, but if you told me Luca Guadagnino had gutted it and started from scratch, I’d believe you.…
In 1994, Alex Proyas (I, Robot) brought James O’Barr’s The Crow comic to life with the help of writers David J. Schow (The Hunger) and John Shirley (The Specialist). Brandon…
It’s always fascinating to see a master filmmaker work in a different language, especially when their work is singular. Tone, personality, and rhythm can come across very differently, and sometimes…
Wolfs should be seen in a movie theater. I can say that quite confidently, having just done it myself, but the odds you’ll be able to aren’t good. Apple had…
I’m not someone who naturally gives preference to a film based on the size of its ambition. The filmmaking challenge of marshaling a massive production doesn’t guarantee the final product…
You Gotta Believe stars Luke Wilson and Greg Kinnear as the coaches of an underdog Little League baseball team. This rag-tag group makes it to the Little League World Series…
The Order (2024) is about hate, though not quite in the way you’d expect. It seems an obvious theme, given the story follows a white supremacist terrorist cell and the…