Legacies must not be easy things to live with. For good or for ill, the legacy that one cements for oneself may act not only as a lens through which their history is viewed but can also act as a...
God help me, I swear Rampage starts off promisingly. If you’ve got your comment-typing fingers locked and loaded up with accusations that I’m a killjoy critic who can’t just sit back and enjoy a movie about giant animals destroying things, know that...
“Are we more merciful than God?” That’s a fascinating question, considering how few of us human beings would knowingly send anyone off to be tortured for all of eternity. It’s especially interesting given that the man who asks it in...
Hollywood has shown little to moderate success when using everyday people to act in a true story about themselves. While it is a unique tactic to increase box office sales and create intrigue, the quality of films tends to suffer...
Sadly, the one part of Jeff Wadlow’s Truth or Dare that I found to be memorable is also the one thing I can’t talk about: the ending. It is a compelling resolution that is set up both thematically and narratively,...
At the start of Sophie Fiennes’ documentary on Grace Jones, Ms. Jones is singing “Slave to the Rhythm,” one of her biggest hits, under a golden mask of skull. It may seem like a surreal choice, an example of the...
John Krasinski might be best known as “Jim Halpert” from The Office, but over the years, he has tried to distance himself from the loveable “nice guy” persona that character was famous for. He played an underhanded environmental advocate in...
Plotwise, Lynne Ramsay’s new movie about a man of violence on a mission, You Were Never Really Here, has little in common with her 2002 movie about a woman seizing the day in a liberatingly amoral way, Morvern Callar. Yet the new...
It’s almost an admission of our collective failure to remember what it was like to be children that we find such relevance and currency in stories of kids and their pets. Our own, too little examined maturation makes boys and...
“Uneasy lies that head that wears the crown” – Henry IV, Part 2 Though never once spoken or even vaguely referenced by any of the players in Chappaquiddick, the evergreen warnings of William Shakespeare about the consequences and expectations of...
