John Carpenter’s original Halloween is a testament to how much can be achieved through narrative economy and moody stylization. The film’s pioneering use of Pan...
Director Olivier Masset-Depasse lets us know exactly what to expect out of Duelles (Mothers’ Instinct) from the start, introducing an idyllic bourgeois home wit...
Now is not the time to make a film romanticizing Nazism or allowing anyone who donned the swastika during World War II a modicum of sympathy. I'd argue there co...
If Broken Lizard were Central American and deadpan, they might make something akin to Ernesto Villalobos' Helmet Heads. Think an extremely droll Super Troopers ...
In Fabric is a film that’s wholly retro, and not just in how writer/director (and emerging remix artist) Peter Strickland embraces '70s Euro-horror tropes (and ...
And so it began—sentiments that prove true only until the next example replaces it. We’re just two years removed from Donald Trump’s victory for president of th...
The synopsis doesn’t lie. Young Zain (Zain Al Rafeea) is in prison, his five-year sentence just put into effect. He has no papers despite being born in Lebanon ...
Survival at all costs. That’s the theme–or, more precisely, a theme–of Steve McQueen’s timely, tremendously entertaining Widows. This is precision entertainment...
There’s an interesting framing device within Felix Van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy that strangely only frames the first half of the film. It’s a scene wherein Da...
It was fun to laugh back in January when Donald Trump spoke to the media about how he wanted fewer immigrants from "shithole" countries and more from the likes ...
