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…
The new decade is here! It’s a time for resolutions and new beginnings—or circling back to old beginnings, if that’s more your speed. You’d be in (arguably) good company: after…
In the grand tradition of Rope and Birdman, war film 1917 is made to look like it was all filmed in one shot, even though it wasn’t. It made sense…
Greta Gerwig’s Little Women is (at least) the sixteenth time that the story has been committed to film. Its adaptations have taken many forms over the years: TV miniseries, modern…
The Safdie brothers are back and more chaotic than ever. Their previous film Good Time, a crime thriller about a scumbag’s tenacious quest for wealth, brought them acclaim and mainstream…
“And I saw a Beast rising from the alley that had animal fur and human limbs, and on its collar a ridiculous name. And the Beast that I saw was…
