Movie Review: Past Lives
Moviemakers are pretty great at making great romances, but usually out of period pieces. Something about the pre-cell phone era puts nice little simple boundary …
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Movie Review: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
If you’re a Star Wars fan, you should be really pissed now. Phil Lord and Christopher Miller were originally slated to do the Han Solo …
Movie Review: BlackBerry
The Social Network transitioned the classic rise and fall story about power and capitalism to the modern age, showing how tech nerds were just as …
Movie Review: Polite Society
Cultural melting pots are amazing. Yes the differences between various cultures can lead to violence and tension. But exposure not only makes everything in the …
Movie Review: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
It’s finally here! Judy Blume has been famously clear for years that she didn’t want to adapt Margaret because how beloved and important that book …
Movie Review: How to Blow Up a Pipeline
What a title! Pitching this movie to investors must have made financing How to Blow Up a Pipeline pretty easy. That means Daniel Goldhaber’s trickiest …
Movie Review: A Thousand And One
James Baldwin could have written something like this. A Thousand And One at its best plays like a beautiful poem, celebrating parents everywhere for all …
Movie Review: John Wick: Chapter 4
I’m sure George Miller knew what he had. Sometimes it just takes a while. Miller is the director of all the Mad Max Movies. But …
Movie Review: Close
How many friends do you have when you were 6? When you were 12? 15? Growing up takes your life in so many directions with …
Movie Review: Good Night Oppy
Call it the Wall E effect. Good Night Oppy could have been a straightforward story about a really successful NASA project. But they just HAD …