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Take two: Zack Snyder’s Justice League
Exhausting but an improvement.
Word travels slow in News of the World
Tom Hanks puts the ‘man’ in ‘anchorman’.
Pixar rolls the dice with Onward
Field of Dreams meets Dungeons and Dragons in Pixar’s latest.
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.
The Lifestyles of the Rich and Ruthless in All the Money in the World
Greed is good if you’re a Getty.
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
Assassin’s Creed is a slave to the material
Everything, even the title, gets unpacked. There is nothing left to the imagination.
The best films of 2016
The films that pushed back in 2016.
Becoming an avatar of what you love in La La Land
A relief from the potholes of life as we envision the best versions of ourselves in snappy musical numbers.
The lessons of the 52 films by women pledge
Filmmaking skews male so you have to poke it back.