There’s a con at play, this beguiling sense that everything isn’t exactly what it seems. It dances with the allure of the carnival, but never shies away from the ruse. You’re constantly left with the …
Tommaso Review: Willem Dafoe and Abel Ferrara Reunite in this Scathing Allegory about Masculine Insecurity
What does it mean to suffer for your art? For storied director Abel Ferrara, it’s to (perhaps once again) make a film so autobiographical, it can’t help but be the kind of fiction that’s so hard to be…
The Last Thing He Wanted Review: Great performances help an otherwise vague political thriller
Even if the writing at times fails to fully express how everything fits together, Anne Hathaway’s performance and Dee Rees’ direction gives The Last Thing He Wanted, adapted from the Joan …
Motherless Brooklyn Movie Review: A Showcase for Edward Norton
The first thought that crossed my mind after the credits rolled on Motherless Brooklyn was that it was clearly a passion project. Written and directed by Edward Norton, the film, loosely based on the …
The Lighthouse Review: A Fatally Ambitious Shipwreck
When the lights go down and the movie starts, it’s impossible not to feel captivated by the two black bars bordering the left and right of Robert Eggers’ new film The Lighthouse. For modern viewers us…
Movie Review: The Florida Project
Some directors are virtuosos not just for their skill, but for how well they pull off the difficult subjects they choose to focus on, such as the lives of the impoverished. Often films about those wit…
Movie Review: Death Note
Towards the end of Adam Wingard’s adaptation of Death Note, Light Turner (Nat Wolff) cracks open his locker to reveal a “normal people scare me” sticker inside, which about sums the rest of the affair…