I have never made a secret of my abiding belief that Jason Statham makes anything he’s in better. There is something about his brand of unstudied cool that has a mystique all its own with none of the showy bravado of a Brando, or the ironic remove of McQueen. I bring this up because for… Read More »
IT ENDS
IT ENDS is that wondrous oeuvre that demands of its audience both its attention and its intelligence. To describe this unconventional road trip as an existential thriller would be glib and unworthy. What we have here is nothing less than a consideration, via allegory, of existence itself. We are asked to ponder how to live… Read More »
COYOTE VS. ACME
Click here for the flashback interview with Will Forte for EXTRA ORDINARY. The dynamic tension of Wile E. Coyote’s endless quest to capture the Road Runner has always arisen from the Herculean industriousness of the former, and the flippant impudence of the former. The Road Runner didn’t just avoid becoming an entrée, he would rub… Read More »
SPIDERMAN: BRAND NEW DAY
Click here for the flashback interview with Destin Daniel Cretton for SHORT TERM 12. When we last saw Peter Parker, aka Spiderman, in SPIDERMAN: NO WAY HOME he was being selfless. In SPIDERMAN: NEW BEGINNINGS, he is living with that choice, which was to keep safe have the love of his life, MJ (Zendaya) and… Read More »
DISCLOSURE DAY
Before attending DISCLOSURE DAY, and you certainly should in order to see it on the biggest screen available, it is important to remind yourself that this is a Steven Spielberg film. This is not a bad thing. This is SCHINDLER’S LIST Steven Spielberg. This is E.T. and CLOSE ENCOUNTERS Steven Spielberg. This is LINCOLN Steven… Read More »
GOOD LUCK, HAVE FUN, DON’T DIE
It is like cinema has burst forth into the full flower of distinctly new genre, this one about the zeitgeist’s paranoia about AI. Never mind it taking jobs. The very worst it can do is infantilize us into a state of perpetual psychological impotence. The emergence of this genre was a slow build from the… Read More »
RELAY
Riz Ahmed is an interesting actor, one that can arrest us with his eloquent silence, and this is a talent put to excellent use in RELAY, a film in which he doesn’t speak for the first part of his performance. If the story of a broker of shady deals doesn’t spark to life as quickly… Read More »
WEAPONS
It is a testament to writer/director Zach Cregger that the most ominous moment in WEAPONS, the one that does more than merely frighten, the one that is like an icepick to the brain has none of the gore with which the finale is replete. Instead, it is a POV shot from a distance of a… Read More »
EDDINGTON
Ari Aster’s EDDINGTON will confirm your worst fears and provoke a few new reasons for anxiety about how the world really works. This brilliant use of microcosm as macrocosm is a brutal satire that does not permit the surcease of even nervous laughter or the respite of supernatural forces at work. No, this hell on… Read More »
THE ACCOUNTANT 2
There is so much to love in THE ACCOUNTANT 2, or, rather, THE ACCOUNTANT2, recognizing the mathematical nature of the eponymous character’s profession. There’s a clever plot involving human traffickers, a Federal Agent walking a fine line between the letter of the law and a consequentialist philosophy of effective law enforcement, and a brother act… Read More »
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