It would be natural to assume it’s impossible to recreate Harold Pinter’s effects on-screen. What cinematic setting could ever replicate the feeling of an ordinary space that simultaneously exists in a howling metaphysical void? Read More
Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood, a melancholy elegy with a fairy tale at its core, is a work of surprises, from an unconventional structure to stylistic flourishes to a cartoonishly outrageous denouement. Read More
On the twisted war of influence in Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite. Read More
Here is what happens when you let the darkness win. Read More
It's hard to watch Annihilation in a Chicago winter and not feel it on a molecular level. Read More
The Finnish auteur’s latest comedy charts the interwoven experiences of two men from drastically different backgrounds, each looking to improve their lots in life. Read More
Good Time is an itch, a nagging. I want to let it go, but I, too, have been prone to spiral. Read More
Not all movies are cinema; The Holiday is certainly not cinema—but it is upbeat and kind and romantic and Jude Law is just, like, extremely hot here. Read More
After a long and stressful weekend, I went to go see Hell Or High Water by myself, and it absolutely gutted me. Read More
It seems weird to have to defend laughing, but that’s where we’re at. Read More
On watching Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some!! Read More