Review: The Disaster Artist (2017) ★★★★
Like most people who watched The Room (2003), I found myself completely fascinated with Tommy Wiseau, the enigmatic star and
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Review: Top Secret! (1984) ★★★
Looking back at parody films through the years, I’ve come to realize that there isn’t much that can be said
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Review: The Big Sick (2017) ★★
As a longtime fan of Kumail Nanjiani’s standup, I had high hopes for The Big Sick, maybe too high. In
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Review: The Best Offer (La Migliore Offerta, 2013) ★★
Our expectations play a huge part in how we evaluate a film. This is somewhat unfair to the filmmaker, who
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Review: The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) ★★★★
A difficult part of writing a review for The Killing of a Sacred Deer is that it is almost impossible
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Review: The Maid (La Nana, 2009) ★★★★
It is not easy to infuse comedy into a story revolving around class differences, especially without succumbing to crass jokes
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Review: Victoria and Abdul (2017) ★½
Over the last few years, studios have been practically tripping over themselves to release new, pseudo-progressive “feel-good” movies, generally focusing
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Review: Time of the Wolf (Le Temps Du Loup, 2003) ★★★½
Anyone who has seen a Michael Haneke film has a pretty good understanding of his style. His camera always takes
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Review: What Happened to Monday? (2017) ★★
Dystopian science fiction is a genre that requires full commitment from the director, the actors, and perhaps most importantly, the
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Review: Butterfly on a Wheel (Shattered, 2007) ★½
While thrillers are not generally my favorite kind of film, there are a number of very well-made and entertaining entries
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Review: The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015) ★★★★
Whenever a film addresses sex in a way that is neither prudish nor sensationalized, it should be lauded as something
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Review: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017) ★
As petty as it may seem, I get a sense of vindictive pleasure when a huge, exorbitantly expensive blockbuster like
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Review: Silent Hill (2006) ★½
It is apparently very difficult to make a quality film that is based on a video game franchise. Uwe Boll
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Review: Tale of Tales (2015) ★★★★
Anthologies have a very unsteady place in the history of cinema and film criticism. More often than not, films that
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Review: Brigsby Bear (2017) ★★★
Having watched Kyle Mooney’s Youtube channel and subsequent success on Saturday Night Live, I can say without reservation that he
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Review: The Wailing (곡성, 2016) ★★
The Wailing is one of those horror films that reels you in with a moody atmosphere and a promising story,
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Review: Good Bye, Lenin! (2003) ★★★½
I am generally not a fan of sentimental films. That is not to say that I think films should lack
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