Between Shoplifters and Parasite, new movies about “scamilies” (that’s my new term for “scam artist families,” don’t wear it out), continue to provoke fascinating ideas about class warfare and the lengths people will go to in order find a sliver of success in…
Palm Springs Review: Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti are a dream team in this summer dose of love, humor, and other surprises | Sundance 2020
These days, it’s not enough for a funny movie to be funny. To find mainstream success at the box office, a comedy has to either be an event movie, or so funny it becomes one. Which brings us to The…
Falling Review: Viggo Mortensen’s directorial debut is an excruciating melodrama about fatherhood | Sundance 2020
Viggo Mortensen has starred in many avant-garde dramas about troubled middle-aged men, but Falling is the veteran actor’s first time directing and writing is own film, as well as starring in it, naturally. His first movie is a personal one, as it’s…
Summertime Review: Teenage poets slam an admirable, but clumsy new story about LA life | Sundance 2020
Summertime is, fittingly, a movie about time itself and its “little surprises.” We waste time wasting away on social media, while unbeknownst to us, we’re side characters in another time waster’s story happening not too far away. A single day can…
Weathering With You Movie Review: Director Makoto Shinkai has delivered another stunner
Director Makoto Shinkai has delivered greater films than his latest, the climate change aware Weathering With You. His films such as 5 Centimeters Per Second and the 2016 megahit Your Name offered greater nuances in storytelling as opposed to the…
TYF’s 20 Best Films of 2019
Oh, what a year it was. 2019 has come and gone as we’ve already hit you with our best of the decade list and recently our best documentaries of the decade list, it’s time for our annual countdown of the…
Midway Movie Review: Roland Emmerich’s war epic is respectful, but flimsy
Roland Emmerich just can’t let go of the past. At first, it was the fact that he loved B-movie corniness so much that he kept blowing it up to massive scales. He got it right one time with Independence Day…