The best films of 2019
Over the past year at the movies it got personal.
Category Archive: film
Crime after crime
A late-career masterwork.
Is Joker a big troll?
We’ve perfected the art of giving things the attention they don’t deserve.
The Walking Deadpan
The Dead Don’t Die is a zany genre trip.
Godzilla remains a political monster
A blockbuster with a political pulse.
Rocketman: a musical desperate to break out
Hold me closer tiny song and dance numbers.
The Poké-Noir of Detective Pikachu
Grounded in a world of cute totem creatures with its buddy cop premise but the sins of video game films lurk.
The End is Inevitable in Avengers: Endgame
A magnificent mortality fable across time.
Shazam! Adventures in Superhero-ing
The DC Comics stable of superheroes have finally found a groove
The Lifestyles of the Rich and Ruthless in All the Money in the World
Greed is good if you’re a Getty.
The Best Films of 2017
This year was exhausting but the films weren’t.
Pig Little Lies
To live in a capitalist culture, you have to live a lie, that’s the gambit of the brilliant Okja.
The gods and monsters of Alien: Covenant
Leverages the franchise’s canon into bold, existential ideas about artificial intelligence and the relationship between gods and monsters; fathers and sons.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: Stuck on rewind in space
Vol. 2 has the revelry of the first, but it feels regimented, like a party planner hired to recapture the magic of a spontaneous night out.
Oh Jackie
Jacqueline Kennedy (Natalie Portman) rides in the back of a ambulance following the assassination of her husband, John F. Kennedy (Brody and Aiden Weinberg). She lists names to her companions and asks if… Continue reading