“A Complete Unknown” Review
What helps James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown not feel like a standard musical bio-pic is that it never tries to be all-encompassing. In a year with such sprawling musician biographies
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“The Brutalist” Review
There’s something so grand about Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist that the notion kept crossing my mind that it must’ve been plucked from something else. It’s an ambitious and intricate film
“Sonic The Hedgehog 3” Review
I suppose I should’ve felt something when this film references the classic blow-in-the-cartridge technique and two Millenials declare that the 1990s were the best decade. I grew up in that
“Mufasa: The Lion King” Review
Mufasa is spoken of in this prequel film as the fastest lion around. That much is true of this film, never slowing down to take a single breath in its
“Babygirl” Review
If last year’s erotic thriller Fair Play was a battle of the sexes in the shifting dynamic in the workplace, Babygirl is the fallout of that war where the women
“Maria” (2024) Review
The best part of Pablo Larraín’s films about 20th-century women is that he digs more into the psychological horror than the historical decadence of his subjects. His past films of
“The End” (2024) Review
Director Joshua Oppenheimer had crafted two of the most important documentaries of the 2010s, The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence, both films centering on the Indonesian genocide
“Queer” (2024) Review
Queer feels like the ultimate challenge for director Luca Guadagnino. He tries to adapt the William S. Burroughs novel in a way that explores something left unsaid about the author’s
“Nightbitch” Review
Nightbitch is a film that kinda/sort of wants to be a creature feature. It wants to dabble in its weirdness of a mom turning into a dog as much as
“Small Things like These” Review
Evil not only triumphs when good men do nothing but when there are enough distractions for it to fester. What better time for that inhumanity to silently grow than Christmas.