Wives in crime films have had a notoriously rough go of it. Just ask Kay Adams, wife of Mafia don Michael Corleone for half The Godfather trilogy. Though she’s promised…
A musical! A musical’s the thing! A glitzy, upbeat production full of elaborate dance numbers and positive vibes—that’s the cure for the 2020 blues. Well, that and a vaccine, but…
The films of David Fincher are so unique and identifiable (the murky green tint helps) that it’s easy to forget he’s a studio director. Not a single one of his…
To the woefully uncoordinated (a club of which I am a lifetime member), drumming is a feat just short of a miracle. Major props to Riz Ahmed, then, for learning…
This year’s Ammonite and last year’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire have a lot in common. Both of them are about a forbidden romance between two women, one a…
Reviewing movies during an ever-worsening pandemic can feel a bit hazardous. That partly comes down to a weird awards show rule: in order for a movie to qualify for the…
Eavesdrop on 10 film school dorm rooms and you’ll overhear eight guys saying “dude, we should write and direct a film starring us as ourselves.” (The ninth room was film…
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…
