Still pleasing if an obvious step down from the first.Â
David Harbour was a villain in THE EQUALIZER two years before being in STRANGER THINGS. Pedro Pascal was a villain in THE EQUALIZER 2 two years...
On this week’s episode, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) discuss the sticking points between the AMPTP and the WGA, and why the stickiest...
BLUE BEETLE does this thing that a lot of movies do, where progressive scare words are used to impart villainy to the antagonist (in this case, describing the heavy as an anti-communist fighter in Guatemala...
GRAN TURISMO is perfectly fine and I mostly liked it, but the closing piece of music over the final triumphant sequence is the most egreious instance of stolen soundtrack valor I've *ever* seen in a...
On this week’s show, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) discuss fraud at the Korean box office and why rumors of studios and distributors inflating...
I mean, look, good for her for getting paid and all that, but I still think it's a mild shame that Jennifer Lawrence, one of the most-talented comic actresses of her generation, spent a big chunk of...
I don't think this is a very good documentary—it's incredibly cursory/surface-level stuff, and even the best segment (the first, dealing with his weight lifting/early years) is better handled in PUMPING...
STRAYS made me laugh out loud three or four times, which is basically all I want from a movie like this. Also, I spent like 500 words on why I now want to bite Will Forte's dick off. Click here to read...
This week, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) look at Disney’s shaky economic and creative output and discuss how it serves as a sort of canary...
I don't think this is a perfect movie or anything—the superhero-style showdown at the end is a tad goofy—but it is a relentlessly *effective* movie, and that counts for a lot. It's delightfully...
this is kino
I recently re-watched Ronin, John Frankenheimer’s wonderful end-of-history spy thriller, and midway through was reminded of one of my all-time favorite lines of film criticism....
I feel like this is a feature you could watch in film school as a case study in a movie where, on paper, everything adds up to a pretty good flick, but in practice, it ends up being a boring slog that...
I gotta be honest, there are so many different things happening all at once that I’m not … entirely sure what precisely [redacted] is helping the feds stop at the end? But it’s suitably clever...
This week, Sonny Bunch (The Bulwark), Alyssa Rosenberg (The Washington Post), and Peter Suderman (Reason) discuss the controversial (or nontroversial?) practice of digitizing extras. Setting aside issues...
Some backstory to this episode: last month I bought a ticket for Sound of Freedom because I was curious about the year’s most unexpected box office sensation. As the credits rolled, star...
Some backstory to this episode: last month I bought a ticket for Sound of Freedom because I was curious about the year’s most unexpected box office sensation. As the credits rolled, star Jim Caviezel...
looking at the Barbenheimmer box office like
It is always a mistake to draw broader inferences about audience tastes from a handful of films released over the two or three months you’ve most...
Between this, SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE, and PUSS IN BOOTS: THE LAST WISH, it feels like we're in the midst of a revolution against the smooth and clean computer-generated animation preferred...
The most amusing thing about something like They Cloned Tyrone or They Live is the idea that you need some sort of secret, all-encompassing manipulative program to control the masses rather than their...
I would simply not shake the horror hand that opens up a portal to a dimension full of damned souls who want to inhabit your body.
Update: A fuller examination of the film here as part of my late-summer...
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