Come Play has a lot in common with the 2016 horror movie Lights Out. Both were based on short, proof-of-concept horror films that landed the directors an opportunity to expand…
Disclaimer: I had surgery right before the brief window in which critics could screen this movie, so I both watched it and wrote this review on heavy painkillers. My brain…
Have you heard there’s a pandemic going on? Yes, it may come as a shock, but hear me out: while most of us are frolicking outside and remaining gainfully employed,…
In 1997, two Black parents named Sibil and Robert Richardson attempted a bank robbery. It didn’t go their way. Sibil took a plea deal and served three and a half…
The Cronenberg name has a different kind of cultural currency these days. Once immediately evocative of stomach-churning classics like Crash (not the 2004 one) and The Fly (not the 1958…
You have to stare death in the eyes. Even if you have the privilege to avert your gaze until your last moment, we all have to stare it down at…
Sofia Coppola’s On the Rocks may only be a follow-up to Lost in Translation in spirit, but the connection between the movies runs deep. When Coppola was workshopping her script…
Aaron Sorkin’s back at it again with the white politics! The writer has a reputation for the self-righteous, neoliberal speechifying that makes moderates feel comfortable and the right feel justified,…
Miranda July’s Kajillionaire, like a kajillion dollars, is a lot. It’s a kinda-sorta heist movie, a quirky family comedy, an opposites-attract romance, and a satire not only of capitalist greed,…
Apologies to clever titles like Anomalisa and Synecdoche, New York, but Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind would be a better fit for most of Charlie Kaufman’s movies. It’s already…
It’s hard to know where to begin with The Personal History of David Copperfield. There’s a lot to write about: it’s a Charles Dickens adaptation with the silliness factor cranked…
The first remarkable thing about Chemical Hearts is that it’s the one-millionth adaptation of a sad teen romance novel. No one’s actually counting, but we’ve got to be close at…
