Movie Review: I Used To Be Funny
What a sad title. And still, I Used To Be Funny is even more melancholy than you can possibly imagine. Thankfully, there’s a powerful performance …
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Movie Review: Causeway
There’s usually a very important stepping stone a movie star makes: the small indie breakout performance. Jennifer Lawrence didn’t come fully formed with her Katniss …
Movie Review: Halloween Ends
Turns out the Shape was a shrug emoji. Halloween Ends with a whimper: a convoluted afterthought originating from one of the greatest movies ever made. …
Movie Review: Smile
A great marketing campaign can do wonders for a movie. The Blair Witch Project comes to mind: everyone thought that footage was real. So does …
Movie Review: Not Okay
Sometimes a lesson takes time to sink in. There have been countless movies about social media and its consequences, some good, some bad. But we …
Movie Review: Spiderhead
What a summer for Joseph Kosinski. He FINALLY got his Top Gun: Maverick out in theatres, to the delight of apparently everyone who sees it. …
Movie Review: The Fallout
School shooting movies tend focus on the buildup to the event itself, sensationalize/dramatize the shooting cruelly for viewers, or focus on the parents of the …
Movie Review: Pieces of a Woman
Pieces of a Woman reminded me of Matrix: Reloaded. Don’t worry, I’ll park this car. Matrix: Reloaded isn’t a great movie: in fact, it’s pretty …
Movie Review: Welcome to Marwen
Have to say, I saw the craziness of Welcome to Marwen coming. We’re long past the days where Robert Zemeckis is directing like he’s one …
Movie Review: You Were Never Really Here
One ill fated David Letterman interview. That’s all it took to drop Joaquin Phoenix from the heights of Hollywood acting to a strange man that …