Category: Theatrical Review
Imagine you went on a first date and you got along famously. Except, at one point during the evening, your companion made a troubling offhand comment–a dislike for animals, maybe, or a fondness for Ben Shapiro–that you tried to brush...
Bad Boys II, surely one of the most grotesque, irresponsible, and overindulgent films to ever come out of the big-budget Hollywood franchise machine, was in its own sick way a masterpiece of a form that should never have such a...
When I was about eight or nine years old, I was channel surfing and much to my surprise I saw “comic store Craig” (he earned this nickname because he owned a local comic shop; clever, right?) sitting on a stool...
At the advance screening of Like a Boss, my guest and I were each given a free glass of rosé to sip while enjoying the movie. You could, I suppose, call this bribery but, to be more charitable, you could...
Of the many times Ladj Ly’s Les Misérables is reminiscent of other, better things, the most exciting is the opening sequence, which, with its Steadicam roaming through young bodies in motion soundtracked by droning music, is like a more proletarian...
After a touching prologue in which a law student and intern named Bryan Stevenson (Michael B. Jordan) nervously makes his first visit to a death row inmate, Destin Daniel Cretton’s Just Mercy quickly jumps ahead to a more seasoned Stevenson,...
It begins with horror. As strange-looking creatures skulk out of the shadows, their forms coming into sharper focus, our eyes widen as we begin to understand what we’re seeing. Nightmarish human-feline hybrids begin to emerge from the darkness, laughing and...
Adam McKay was not the first recent director to turn from broad comedy to political point-making. Jay Roach, who made his name with the Austin Powers and Meet the Parents franchises, gained a new identity with the HBO movies Recount...
It can be difficult to pinpoint exactly what it is about James Ivory’s films that sets them apart from standard issue costume dramas and classic literature adaptations. There’s certainly nothing outlandish or self-consciously unique about them. In fact, it may...
Karim Aïnouz’s Invisible Life is, to put it lightly, not a positive portrayal of marriage, specifically as it exists for women who live in a family, a culture or a time in which it is the only option offered to...
