Ruben Östlund’s Triangle of Sadness was a smash hit with film critics and general audiences alike, in 2022. In fact, the film was nominated for Best Picture, while Östlund was nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay during the...
Cary Solomon and Chuck Konzelman’s Nefarious purports to be a horror movie about spiritual warfare, perhaps trying to evoke The Exorcist and The Omen. Unlike those movies, however, this film is so devoid of frights, one wonders exactly how hard...
Louis Garrel, the director, star and co-writer of the new French crime dramedy The Innocent, comes from a French cinematic dynasty, a family full of actors and directors. He’s been widely awarded and nominated for his work in various facets...
“It doesn’t actually teach you how to do it.” So says Logan (Lukas Gage) to Shawn (Marcus Scribner) when the latter picks up a copy of Andreas Malm’s book How to Blow Up a Pipeline in the movie that same...
So, the good thing, at least from where I’m sitting, about Aaron Horvath, Michael Jelenic and Pierre Leduc‘s The Super Mario Bros. Movie is that it doesn’t matter if you show up not really knowing what any of this crap...
Mark Jenkin‘s Enys Men belongs to a subset of movies which painstakingly document their protagonists’ daily routines again and again throughout. Think of Chantal Akerman‘s Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles or Jim Jarmusch‘s Paterson. But the comparisons...
Huang Ji and Ryûji Otsuka‘s Stonewalling completes a trilogy, started by Egg and Stone and The Foolish Bird, of films that examine “the plight of young women in China,” according to Huang. Not being familiar with the previous two works,...
With its romantic opening music (just a taste of what’s to come from Gary Gunn’s beautiful score) and montage of establishing shots of New York City–including the twin towers; this is 1994–A.V. Rockwell‘s astonishingly gentle and assured feature directorial debut,...
Don’t worry. At no point during Bobby Farrelly‘s Champions will you struggle to understand the plot. Everything will be explained to you in great detail. Screenwriter Mark Rizzo (adapting the 2018 Spanish film Campeones) has made sure of that my...
The Quiet Girl definitely sounds like it’s the title of an airport paperback destined to be turned into a forgettable movie or, more likely, a forgettable prestige television miniseries. Ooh, why’s she so quiet? What’s she got to hide? But...
