Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the best Spider-Man movie yet, and that’s coming from someone who swooned over Spider-Man: Homecoming. Or m…
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Movie Review: Your friendly neighborhood Spideys swing into some spectacular action
Movie Review: The Second Time Around
Few genres leave older performers quite as alienated as the romantic comedy. If all you knew about human interactions came from what was shown in mult…
The Mule Movie Review: Clint Eastwood Stumbles Again
Once the proud pillar of American cinematic masculinity, nowadays Clint Eastwood is the Hollywood embodiment of the “old man yells at cloud” meme (or …
Capernaum Movie Review: A flawed but essential portrait of childhood poverty
Capernaum is about two hours of near unrelenting bleakness, but it’s the kind of bleakness that’s also a mostly intelligent indictment of …
The Quake Movie Review: Norway’s New Disaster Film Barely Registers on the Richter Scale
In 2015, Roar Uthaug The Wave made waves—pun not intended—as the self-proclaimed first ever Scandinavian disaster movie. Borrowing heavily from the Ro…
Tyrel Movie Review: A genre bending examination of bro culture
The precise genre categorization of Sebastián Silva’s Tyrel is difficult to pin down in concrete terms, namely because it is based entirely on the spe…
Movie Review: Vox Lux is a Soulless Character Study
The “rags to riches” story is one that has been done more times than we can count. Just this year, we’ve had A Star is Born and Bohemian Rhapsody to s…