Category: tyler’s reviews
John Logan’s They/Them is a film with a lot of ideas, though none are particularly fresh. It is a film about the evils of gay conversion camps, which have already been discussed in recent films such as Boy Erased and...
In 1995, Ron Howard directed Apollo 13, the story of three astronauts trapped in a damaged space shuttle and the efforts of those back on Earth to rescue them. It was an amazing directorial achievement. The film’s eye for technical...
Though rigidly specific in its iconography, the Western genre is surprisingly broad in its scope. Some Westerns take place over decades, featuring dozens of characters and intricate action sequences. Others, however, strip away everything from the genre until it is...
D.J. Caruso’s Shut In is an effective – if occasionally lackadaisical – thriller that puts its main character through the ringer before coming to a mostly-satisfying end. The film can be described as functional and efficient, in that it accomplishes...
Any film genre that has been around for a while will naturally start to look inward. Its first instinct will be to comment on the more superficial elements of itself, creating films that are clever and observant, but rarely insightful....
At the core of Run Hide Fight is an experiment. Not one of form, but of concept. In it, director Kyle Rankin combines the sleek, pulse-pounding action of Die Hard with the gritty, disturbing violence of a school shooting film,...
One would be hard-pressed to find a film that more fully embodies the tragedy and exhilaration of show business than Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis. An over-the-top, gaudy spectacle, this film lovingly embraces the excesses of its subject, effectively elevating it above...
When you walk into Jurassic World: Dominion, the question isn’t whether or not the film will be stupid. Given the previous films in the latest trilogy, that much goes without saying. The question is just how stupid the film will...
Aaron and Adam Nee’s The Lost City is one of those rare movies in which, though there isn’t really anything wrong with it, it still manages to fall short of being truly recommendable. Every word I can think of to...
Few movie genres are more breezily reliable as the whodunit. Like any other genre, the story and character elements are dutifully assembled, then systematically explored, leading to a payoff that is satisfying yet essentially arbitrary. None of this is a...
