If you’ve been to Oracle, Arizona, you’ve probably visited the Biosphere 2 research facility (is there any other reason to be in Oracle?). For those who are too young or…
Despite being one of the few things left to do, watching movies during the coronavirus lockdown is a strange experience. What was innocuous in the olden days takes on brand…
Never Rarely Sometimes Always If there’s any proof that some karmic force is out there keeping the universe balanced, it’s that Never Rarely Sometimes Always—a quiet, realistic indie about a…
Nothing’s more fun than interpreting symbolism in movies! (No, that’s not sarcasm; this is a review of an indie drama about a cow—it comes with the territory.) Take Scorsese’s Raging…
If film critics aren’t careful, we can fall victim to a sensation colloquially known as “festival brain”. The hype-soaked atmosphere of a film festival can make critics more willing to…
If you want to take a risk without, you know, doing something risky, try watching a director’s debut feature. Like most people undertaking a monumental task for the first time,…
If you ever feel bad about a plan that didn’t pan out, do yourself a favor and look up Universal Pictures’ Dark Universe. After Marvel made eleventy billion dollars with…
Downhill belongs to a risky bet of a genre: American remakes of excellent foreign films. Even legendary directors have a tough time pulling the gamble off—Spike Lee’s remake of Park…
In a way, the Sonic the Hedgehog video game franchise taught me how to be critical. I grew up playing the games and credit them for my interest in storytelling.…
Falling apart was the best thing that ever happened to the DC Extended Universe. After its attempt to emulate Marvel turned out miserably, DC Films shifted gears from connected narrative…
The Assistant is the first narrative feature from writer/director Kitty Green, a documentarian with a penchant for controversial subjects. Her newest project may be fiction, but it stems from a…
Blake Lively is a fighter. She fought a shark in The Shallows, career expectations in A Simple Favor, and now she’s fighting terrorists in The Rhythm Section, a movie that…
