This review was written during the 2023 WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. Without the labor of the writers and actors on strike, the film covered here wouldn’t exist. The cast of…
In case you haven’t heard, the writers’ and actors’ guilds of America are currently on strike together for the first time since 1960 because film studios are treating them like—and…
I love the Mission: Impossibles for what they are now—glossy, winking Tom Cruise vehicles for his superhuman practical stunt work—but it’s hard to deny something’s been lost over the years.…
Indiana Jones knows how to set a tone. Raiders opens with one of the most cleverly conceived set pieces in adventure film history, birthing an icon in an instant, and…
As Wes Anderson hones the rhythms and compositions of his impeccably detailed scenes (which, despite all the TikToks doing Anderson impressions, amount to more than posing symmetrically and adjusting crooked…
There’s been a lot of pretending around The Flash. WB is pretending the crimes of star Ezra Miller—of which child endangerment is one of the lesser offenses—are a press campaign…
A forbidden love between fire and water may not be the most creative concept, but at no point does Elemental make a “steamy romance” pun, so these writers are working…
2018’s Into the Spider-Verse is still the best thing to happen to superhero movies in the last decade, so the notion of a sequel was both exciting and troubling: after…
I may be misremembering—something about Fast & Furious warps my brain—but I think Fast X has more footage from past Fast films than of Vin Diesel speaking. The opening sequence…
Of the myriad reasons for the MCU’s due collapse, perhaps the most deflating on a surface level is that it’s just not telling good stories. Marvel’s insistence on releasing fifty…
Now that “looks like John Wick” is a genre unto itself, we have to make space for “looks like John Wick but isn’t really,” a canon growing by the day.…
I recently spoke with Jalmari Helander, director of the action-comedy Rare Exports and the upcoming Sisu, which follows a miner named Aatami (Jorma Tommila) on a Nazi-killing spree through scorched-earth…
