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…
The feud between Nikola Tesla and Thomas Edison has, like many histories lost to time, been reduced to a bifurcated battle between ideologies: Tesla the communist, generating free energy for…
There’s going to be a lot of talk about how eerily prescient She Dies Tomorrow is, given that it was shot before the pandemic and features a virus that makes…
Ah, college, when dreams were just within reach and pursuing your passions wasn’t a death sentence (unless you count tuition costs). If you miss those days, you’re not alone: Kate…
If you’re wondering what Yes, God, Yes is about, ask yourself this: where in life could you see yourself screaming that phrase in complete ecstasy? If you’re imagining yourself in…
It’s not every day that a movie bores me to tears in its first fifteen minutes, so in some regard, I suppose The Rental is unlike anything you’ll see this…
The scene from which The Painted Bird takes its name is an odd one. Our protagonist, a young vagabond boy in mid-WW2 Eastern Europe, helps his caretaker slather a captured…
