"Horrifying, Distasteful Take on Thanksgiving"
Content: -4 Intentional blasphemy, evil, gross immorality, and/or worldview problems. (To be avoided)
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Arthur Curry: I don’t know what lies ahead. But we can’t leave our children in a world without hope.
Well, maybe if one considers the possibilities resulting from behind the scenes drama, there...
Andrew Scott plays Adam in Andrew Haigh’s “All of Us Strangers,” a lonely, quiet man who lives in a London apartment where he is one of the few tenants.
Adam meets seemingly the only other person...
FERRARI is a portrait of Enzo Ferrari, the Italian racecar maker, and focuses on three months in 1957 leading up a pivotal, dangerous 1,000-mile race across Italy, a time when both Enzo’s business and...
Oh, the somewhat good ol’ days when cape flicks bore more of an artist’s vision. The sixth film in the formerly known DC Extended Universe saw its success in the gradually rotting, sizzling and...
POOR THINGS is a quirky, but extremely obscene, atheist, feminist satire of western society, with a story about a mad scientist who reanimates a female suicide victim’s body with her own child’s brain...
THE COLOR PURPLE is a musical version of a 1985 movie directed by Steven Spielberg, which is about a black woman from the first half of the 20th Century who’s separated from her beloved sister and abused...
THE IRON CLAW (Sean Durkin, USA, 2023) 5
"If you walk in knowing the basics of the Von Erichs’ history (and I did as I was a huge pro wrestling fan — a mark probably — at the time and saw them...
MONSTER (Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan, 2023) 4
"If there’s anything worse than a gimmicky narrative structure that doesn’t work, except as a trick and subterfuge, it’s a film that tells the same...
EILEEN (William Oldroyd, USA, 2023) 6
"Know what was a fantasy … a Massh**e bar drunk circa 1960 saying 'a left hook like Joe Frazier' rather than Rocky Marciano. That was merely annoying as a boxing...
GODZILLA MINUS ONE (Takashi Yamazaki, Japan, 2023) 8
"It’s a pleasure to see a monster movie like this with first-rate production values, that takes itself seriously, has not a trace of camp or cheese...
POOR THINGS (Yorgos Lanthimos, Britain, 2023) 8
"Lanthimos is nothing like the Dardennes, except in one respect — his sensibility is extremely Victoresque. His demento sense of humor and his ideas...
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SHERE HITE (Nicole Newnham, USA, 2023) 3
"Based on what I remembered of her public career, I thought THE DISAPPEARANCE OF SHERE HITE had the potential to be interesting if it concentrated...
DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD (Radu Jude, Romania, 2023, 8)
"So apparently Jude appeals to me in the same way Godard does to those people who don’t think him an empty-headed, bloviating...
THE TEACHER’S LOUNGE (Ilker Catak, Germany, 2023) 6
"a reductio ad absurdum of small-d democratic education and its melting before actual human behavior, including gossip and procedural authority...
AMERICAN FICTION (Cord Jefferson, USA, 2023) 7
"Or what if BAMBOOZLED were a good and smart movie (which is very definitely a fiction)…?"
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THE BOY AND THE HERON (Hayao Miyazaki, Japan, 2023) 3
"I’ve never been much of a fan of world-building and even universe-building, and the deeper this one got into it, the less my interest became....
SILENT NIGHT (John Woo, USA, 2023) 2
"I could buy that the lead character (Joel Kinnaman) doesn’t speak as a character feature. But to have nobody speak like a normal human being is just an affectation."
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SALTBURN (Emerald Fennell, USA, 2023) 3
"Imagine KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS, only rewritten by Tennessee Williams’ po-faced Chinese knockoff and directed by Lee Daniels’ non-union Mexican equivalent...
Michael Mann’s “Ferrari” begins with the buzz of race cars and tires spinning, as black and white newsreel footage captures a wild race in which the winner, Enzo Ferrari (Adam Driver), can’t help...
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