The time has come to see the "manic pixie dream girl" trope from the other side. We've viewed countless depictions of attractively quirky women serving as plot ...
“The thing is that many sequels are cash grabs,” Brad Bird said earlier this year. “And there’s a saying in the business that I can’t stand where they go, ‘You ...
The premise of Gary Ross's Ocean's Eight need hardly be explained; the innovations of the film stem not from reversed gender perspectives–scarcely utilized in a...
Borrowing heavily from Hardcore Henry, David Cronenberg, John Wick, and '80s B-movies, Upgrade is the kind of picture where story takes a back seat to the thril...
Everything is and isn't as it seems with Michael Pearce's genre-fluid romantic thriller Beast. What starts with the template of rich girl falling for local bad ...
Soviet secret police began a series of mass executions circa 1940 of Polish citizens they knew would reject foreign occupation upon WWII's completion. Some of t...
At what point do vaguely-related surface movements form into something resembling a wave? The idea of a so-called “Berlin School” has been doing the rounds for ...
It probably says more about Ciro Guerra’s last film than this inimitable new offering (which he co-directed with his long-serving producer Christina Gallego) to...
I’d be curious to see how Solo plays out to the casual observer. Ron Howard’s sci-fi jaunt is rife with “Oh look!” moments that track for anyone in the know (wh...
I wish there was a way I could start this review of Carla Simón’s extraordinary Summer 1993 with its final scene. Not because there are eye-opening or plot-unra...
