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• Review: There’s an emptiness to ‘Priscilla’ that needs real character - Read Article

  Review: There’s an emptiness to ‘Priscilla’ that needs real character

  2023-11-05T15:20:00-07:00

  Priscilla Presley is precisely the kind of person you’d expect to write a memoir—marry one of music’s most public public figures and your life is narrativized, sensationalized, co-opted by the…

  
• Review: ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ is the work of a master - Read Article

  Review: ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ is the work of a master

  2023-10-23T14:35:00-07:00

  The first of many to die in Killers of the Flower Moon is seen dying from above. He’s an Osage Native American, poisoned, writhing on the floor and foaming at…

  
• Review: ‘The Creator’ thuds from its rare heights - Read Article

  Review: ‘The Creator’ thuds from its rare heights

  2023-09-30T16:15:00-07:00

  The most interesting thing about stories about AI (not stories by AI, which are much less interesting) is the mirror they hold up to human existence. If consciousness can arise…

  
• Review: ‘A Haunting in Venice’ feels like more of the same - Read Article

  Review: ‘A Haunting in Venice’ feels like more of the same

  2023-09-17T17:30:00-07:00

  A Haunting in Venice opens not just in Venice but in the Venice of someone’s nightmare, in St. Mark’s Square, looking like it does in my dreams (empty for once).…

  
• Alex Winter from ‘The YouTube Effect’ talks about life as a documentarian - Read Article

  Alex Winter from ‘The YouTube Effect’ talks about life as a documentarian

  2023-08-13T20:00:00-07:00

  Alex Winter, who Arizonans may know as Bill S. Preston, Esq. from the locally filmed Bill & Ted, has spent the last decade-plus as an accomplished documentarian, covering subjects from…

  
• Review: ‘Barbie’ script and wit are as sharp as they are silly - Read Article

  Review: ‘Barbie’ script and wit are as sharp as they are silly

  2023-07-22T14:05:07-07:00

  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…

  
• Review: Wes Anderson is in fine form with ‘Asteroid City’ - Read Article

  Review: Wes Anderson is in fine form with ‘Asteroid City’

  2023-06-23T13:05:29-07:00

  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…

  
• Review: Pixar’s ‘Elemental’ achieves something lasting - Read Article

  Review: Pixar’s ‘Elemental’ achieves something lasting

  2023-06-18T18:20:00-07:00

  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…

  
• Review: ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ is enthralling - Read Article

  Review: ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’ is enthralling

  2023-06-05T11:55:00-07:00

  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…

  
• Review: The deficiency in ‘Fast X’ is felt everywhere - Read Article

  Review: The deficiency in ‘Fast X’ is felt everywhere

  2023-05-19T15:10:00-07:00

  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…

  
• Review: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ is a lot of fun - Read Article

  Review: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ is a lot of fun

  2023-05-07T18:30:00-07:00

  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…

  
• Review: Here’s why ‘Sisu’ comes off a bit undercooked - Read Article

  Review: Here’s why ‘Sisu’ comes off a bit undercooked

  2023-04-28T12:50:00-07:00

  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.…