Category: Theatrical Review
Tanya Wexler’s Jolt stars Kate Beckinsale as Lindy, a woman with clinically diagnosed impulse control issues. Ever since she was a little girl, when something bothered her, she would react violently. After years of attempting to channel this negative energy...
Quentin Dupieux’s last two films, Deerskin and Keep an Eye Out, represented a newfound level of intellectual effort on his part, a willingness to apply his trademark absurdity to something beyond superficial weirdness while still, of course, leaving some room...
When we first meet Sylwia (Magdalana Kolesnik), the protagonist of Magnus von Horn’s Sweat, she is happy. Ecstatically so, in fact. She’s leading a massive group workout session in the common area of a Warsaw shopping mall, cheering on the...
Marooned following the cancellation of SyFy’s infamous Ghost Hunters, directors Kendall and Vera Whelpton pursue similar material in Sleepless Unrest, concerning the reputed real-life counterpart to the home from The Conjuring. With the turgid pace of a particularly long reality-in-name-only...
Benoît Jacquot makes a lot of movies. His newest, Casanova, Last Love, is the fourth I’m reviewing for this site in the last ten years and that doesn’t even represent half of his output in that time. Given his prolificity...
As was the case in his previous film, 2018’s John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection, Julien Faraut’s The Witches of the Orient is hypnotic, idiosyncratic, often beautiful and surprisingly fun. In regards to that last descriptor, Faraut–who works extensively...
Over the course of Questlove’s Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), multiple comparisons are drawn between Woodstock and the concert series the film depicts. There are even comparisons specifically between the footage we’re seeing and...
The gangster movie has long been a Hollywood staple. As far back as the 1930s, filmmakers drew inspiration from Prohibition Era figures like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, producing some of the most iconic movies in film history. Since then,...
Going into False Positive armed with no knowledge other than the names of those involved, you would be forgiven for expecting to laugh. Starring Broad City‘s Ilana Glazer, directed by John Lee (a force behind a good number of the...
Like most horror-comedies, Josh Ruben’s Werewolves Within aims more for laughs than scares. Any time suspense is introduced, it’s almost immediately deflated by a joke, either in the script or in the filmmaking (like the repeated use of sudden edits...
