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MISSING

January 22, 2023 By Leave a Comment

MISSING

Full of slick misdirections and clever plot twists, MISSING rises above the novelty of its online footage subgenre to take its place as a solid mystery-thriller. Not that it doesn’t take excellent advantage of the limitations of its chosen subgenre.  Au contraire, it incorporates those very limitations as integral plot points. In it we find… Read More »

Tagged With: Cartagena, Colombia, home alone, mother-daughter, online footage, rager

GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY

November 22, 2022 By Leave a Comment

GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY

At one point during Rian Johnson’s GLASS ONION, one of the character wails “What is reality?” It’s a fair question considering the plot twist that has just been revealed to the suitably colorful cast of characters, and one that neatly sums up why Mr. Johnson’s second installment in the casebook of Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig)… Read More »

Tagged With: conspicuous excess, Greek island, murder, mystery, private island

DON’T WORRY DARLING

September 25, 2022 By Leave a Comment

DON’T WORRY DARLING

DON’T WORRY DARLING is not the most coherent of feminist manifestos, but it is an ambitious one, exploring as it does several variants of toxic masculinity, some unexpected, but no less pernicious for the surprise factor. Using a devoted couple, Alice (Florence Pugh) and Jack (Harry Styles) as the focal point of gender dynamics, the… Read More »

Tagged With: conformity, cult of personality, mid-century, patriarchy, toxic masculinity, unreality

SEE HOW THEY RUN

September 19, 2022 By 1 Comment

SEE HOW THEY RUN

SEE HOW THEY RUN is a handsomely mounted period piece with a clever premise undermined by an irksome dithering about its tone and a rampant directorial lethargy. Calling out tropes from cinema and literary mysteries with the sort of wild abandon from which the pacing would have profited, this uneven comedy takes us to 1953,… Read More »

Tagged With: Agatha Christie, detective, farce, London, murder, mystery, neophyte, screenwriter, theater

BODIES, BODIES, BODIES

August 13, 2022 By Leave a Comment

BODIES, BODIES, BODIES

BODIES, BODIES, BODIES answers the question “What if a group of friends, trapped in a house in the middle of nowhere, suddenly turned on each other?” Actually, the more salient question is what if a group of friends, with varying degrees of irritating personality disorders, found themselves in those circumstances, would anyone care who made… Read More »

Tagged With: hurricane, murder, nastiness, remote house, toxic personality, trust-funders, vapid

VENGEANCE

July 29, 2022 By 1 Comment

VENGEANCE

Ostensibly a mystery, and a nifty one at that, VENGEANCE is much more. BJ Novak has spun a savage takedown of the media and elite presumptions, but one that is also considered, literate, and even a bit compassionate. At least on the level of allowing redemption of sorts for the silly creatures called human beings… Read More »

Tagged With: Brooklyn hipster, Chekov, murder, mystery, oil field, overdose, Texas

WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING

July 16, 2022 By 1 Comment

WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING

One senses that the novel of the same name on which WHERE THE CRAWDADS SING possessed some lovely prose. Certainly, when the narration includes lines from the book, there is the dark poetic ring of classic Southern Gothic reverberating from the musings on death intoned by the adult version of Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones). Whatever philosophical… Read More »

Tagged With: bullying, child abuse, classism, disappointing men, marsh, murder, mystery, North Carolina, swamp, trial

THE BOB’S BURGERS MOVIE

May 27, 2022 By Leave a Comment

THE BOB’S BURGERS MOVIE

THE BOB’S BURGER MOVIE gives us a few origin stories for the long-running animated sit-com artfully woven into a brand-new musical adventure. Far from playing out as an extended episode of the series, it expands to fill its feature-length running time with a murder mystery, a financial crisis, and a nifty low-speed chase involving an… Read More »

Tagged With: bank loan, based on a tv series, capitalism, infantilized, murder mystery, siblings, sinkhole, stuffed animals

THE ABANDON

February 15, 2022 By 2 Comments

THE ABANDON

One of the most intriguing sub-genres of sci-fi/horror cinema is that which is accomplished with few, if any, special effects. The best of these, such as COHERENCE or THEY LOOK LIKE PEOPLE, to name but two, are so thoughtfully conceived and intelligently crafted that the addition of gizmos, gadgets, or those ci-mentioned special effects would… Read More »

Tagged With: combat, fabris of the universe, higher physics, satellite phone, space-time

DEATH ON THE NILE

February 12, 2022 By Leave a Comment

DEATH ON THE NILE

And so with DEATH ON THE NILE (2022), we learn about the man behind the moustaches. That would be Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie’s cerebral Belgian detective devoted to his “little grey cells” and keeping order in the world. The former gets short shrift, mention-wise, in this adaptation, while the latter rears its compulsive head in… Read More »

Tagged With: 1930s, book to screen, Delta Blues, Egpt, ile murder, remake, spurned lover

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