
Film: Triangle of Sadness
If Force Majeure established Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund’s bona fides as a cinema provocateur, Triangle of Sadness (2022) etches…
March 13, 2023If Force Majeure established Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund’s bona fides as a cinema provocateur, Triangle of Sadness (2022) etches…
March 13, 2023Nobody was happier than I was when Marvel started to conquer Hollywood, but it’s been losing its mojo for…
March 7, 2023While my interest World War II has cooled in recent years, I’m still intrigued by the era, especially when…
February 20, 2023Dave Franco’s second directorial effort, Somebody I Used to Know (2023), isn’t quite as memorable as his first (The…
February 14, 2023A loopy, cartoonish trailer lured me to Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons (2013), a comedic fantasy based…
January 16, 2023Early on, it didn’t seem likely to me that Don’t Worry Darling (2022)—a major release that saw as much…
January 5, 2023Further evidence of Aubrey Plaza’s acting chops is extraneous at this point, but Emily the Criminal (2022) delivers it…
December 27, 2022Rian Johnson’s hit Knives Out was bound to be a tough trick to replicate, but Glass Onion: A Knives…
December 26, 2022Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022) is one of those rare films where…
December 26, 2022Somehow, I made it through High-Rise (2015) without knowing it was based on a J.G. Ballard novel—which, in retrospect,…
November 22, 2022Writer-director David Cronenberg returns to his speculative roots with Crimes of the Future (2022), an unsettling blend of body…
November 6, 2022Clearly there’s something about the artistry of Jordan Peele’s films that appeals to me, because even in the case…
November 5, 2022Indie romcom Authors Anonymous (2014) has a very specific target audience, and as such might fly right over the…
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