The film opens on an affluent white couple living close enough to the Mexican border for another character to later say, "You can't open the door to strangers i...
There's a point in Lynn Shelton's Sword of Trust where the four principal characters are being led into a situation with as much chance of ending in their death...
The new film from Casey Affleck arrives at the tail end of a smattering of telling coincidences and sliding door moments. In February 2017, he won an Academy Aw...
What a difference a day makes. Allowing one's characters to move from narrative point A to narrative point B in the same amount of time it takes for the Earth t...
We meet Phil McGuire (Greg Kinnear) exiting his parked car while still in traffic to climb up a bridge railing. It's a one hundred-plus foot drop into the water...
In its final moments, Spider-Man: Far From Home muses that people will believe anything. This fairly blatant observation of the not-too-distant future setting o...
After an excitingly popular debut during The Conjuring's prologue, the creepily revamped Annabelle doll (its real-life counterpart was actually a Raggedy Anne) ...
Ari Aster wants you to know you’re screwed–that is, if you’re on the wrong side of a deal with demons or deities. In the wake of last year’s wickedly captivatin...
De Lo Mio begins with a tidy visual metaphor: a man carefully opens many blinds to let light into a dark room. The three siblings in Diana Peralta’s debut featu...
It was said upon the release of Toy Story 3 that the franchise was done as far as Woody (Tom Hanks) and Buzz Lightyear's (Tim Allen) adventures were concerned. ...
