FILM CRITIQUE

Alex Garland's newest (and possibly last, at least for awhile) film feels like a provocation of the American conscious that the movie...

There’s no two ways about it: MAGNOLIA is a complicated mess. The lovechild of a coked-out marriage between Paul Thomas Anderson’s vision...

There’s an ironic contrast between the two BLADE RUNNER films when you imagine them in context of auteur theory: on one hand, Ridley...

At first glance, the calling cards that define Joachim Trier’s filmography seem typical to the filmmakers of his generational ilk –...

If you want to understand the close-up, aside from the films of Bergman-Nykvist or Carl Th. Dreyer, I'd recommend LOVERS ROCK. Shot 90%...

What’s often said about folk music is that it’s the same handful of tired laments regurgitated over centuries plus. What’s missed about...

If doomsday is on the horizon for cinema, I think this movie deserves a spot somewhere in the eulogy. No one really knows what the future...

In the wrong hands, KINGS is a 90 minute podcast of Muhammad Ali monologues featuring special guest star George Foreman & co. Luckily,...

The intersection between chaos and spirituality is as delicate of a theme as they come, but CAVITE walks the line brilliantly in a lo-fi...

If action moviemaking was basketball, Michael Bay would be James Harden. Despite wasting a decade of his career on a doomed franchise,...

Gaspar Noe’s fascination with the body and its relation to communication is probably best exemplified in CLIMAX, where movement and...

A wild swing for the fences is derailed by a crippling lack of lead chemistry, but even more so, bizarre editing choices. It feels like...

Variety is always a win for the consumer, and the same goes for comic book movies. It’s astonishing how fresh THE BATMAN feels within the...

I'm getting pretty used to being blown away by Joachim Trier. He’s interested in the ways we respond to internal crises, and in Louder...

Revisiting a film and finding yourself less enthused than you were the first time around is a terrible feeling. A Ghost Story is a decent...

Twitter will try to tell you that Don’t Look Up sucks and that it has no merit. Actually, only one of those things is true. I think the...

Barring the inherent challenges that come with adapting a 400 page novel in 5 hours of runtime, the the first half of the Dune novel...

Trier is somehow able to balance humanity and drama, in OSLO AUGUST 31. Appearing in less of a portrait and more of a journal is the...

It’s refreshing to experience a film like The Power of the Dog on a big screen in 2021; namely, non-IP, traditionally dramatic narrative...

The Green Knight is a bold attempt at re-imagining its source poem, but tonally, it can’t keep up with itself. The script bounces back...