Talk to Me is a mixed bag of a horror movie that tries to keep too many plates spinning to be as effective as it could be. Still, I’d rather have a horror movie with highs and lows and too many ideas than a movie with too few ideas doing only what’s been done before.…… Continue reading Talk to Me (2022) ⭐
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Oppenheimer ⭐⭐
Oppenheimer breaks the usual patterns of biographical movies to show us the complex evolution of its subject from his early studies through the Manhattan Project to his forced removal from government service. To achieve its grand scope, the director Christopher Nolan makes use of quick edits, rapid-fire scene changes, a minimum of expository scene-setting, and…… Continue reading Oppenheimer ⭐⭐
Evil Dead Rise ⭐
Evil Dead Rise is a manic horror film worthy of the Evil Dead name. It’s very good and very gory. This is the fifth film in the Evil Dead series, but it stands on its own. You don’t need to have seen any of the previous films, the last one of which came out ten…… Continue reading Evil Dead Rise ⭐
Bones and All ⭐
I saw one press tag referring to Bones and All as a horror romance. Or it could be called a cannibal coming-of-age film. I can say with certainty that it won’t be for everyone. When the credits rolled at the advance screening, one woman behind me declared, “That was the stupidest movie I’ve ever seen!”.…… Continue reading Bones and All ⭐
The Banshees of Inisherin ⭐⭐
The Banshees of Inisherin is that best type of movie – the one you will want to discuss over an Irish coffee immediately after you see it. The film takes place in the 1920s on a quiet island off the Irish mainland and has a correspondingly small cast. Pádraic (Colin Farrell) and the older Colm…… Continue reading The Banshees of Inisherin ⭐⭐
Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris ⚫
John Paul Sartre defined bad faith, mauvaise foi, partly as the difference between the identity one projects to the world and what one actually is. Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris exhibits this inauthenticity by including signifiers for the class struggle and the fight for self-determination when it is actually just a film where a nice…… Continue reading Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris ⚫
The Northman ⭐
I feel like The Northman would be the favorite movie of Dethklok, the fictional metal band from Adult Swim’s Metalocalypse. The Northman is a Shakespearean epic that could come off deeply silly without a solid filmmaker’s vision (and a sufficient budget) to carry it. But Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) creates an other-worldly atmosphere…… Continue reading The Northman ⭐
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent ⚫
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent doesn’t have the courage its own convictions, its central conviction being that Nicolas Cage is a thinly tethered whirlwind of transformational thespianism. It spends too much time allowing things to happen to Nicolas Cage and not enough time allowing Nicolas Cage to happen to everything else. Nicolas Cage plays…… Continue reading The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent ⚫
Everything Everywhere All At Once ⭐⭐
One of the worst sins a movie can commit is to introduce an inventive premise and then only follow through on the premise in the most ordinary ways, not displaying any further imagination. Everything Everywhere All At Once does the opposite, continually expanding and escalating the possibilities it explores. It keeps pulling the rug out…… Continue reading Everything Everywhere All At Once ⭐⭐
X ⭐
Ti West’s X is a slasher horror movie that wants you to know that it understands themes and camera placement and building dread, but isn’t gonna let any of that stuff get in the way of showing the audience a good time. X is about six people in 1979 who venture out of Houston to…… Continue reading X ⭐
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