Film Reviews & Insights
The Matrix Resurrections
2021 marks a resurgence for many franchises, but like many, they aren't quite as brilliant as before. The same can be said for The Matrix Resurrections, the welcome sequel to [...]
The Hand of God
Considerably scaled down in scope and visual energy from his previous Oscar nominated existential films, The Great Beauty and Youth, Paulo Sorrentino's The Hand of God is an artfully crafted [...]
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Not since The Force Awakens and Avengers: Endgame has Hollywood gone into such spoiler lockdown mode, and for good reason. Revealing anything beyond what's featured in the marketing would not [...]
Nightmare Alley
In a far darker return to more macabre terrain after his Oscar win for The Shape of Water, Guillermo del Toro still finds his footing in genre filmmaking in the [...]
Being the Ricardos
Though Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz's stardom has faded in the 30 years since their deaths, Aaron Sorkin's biopic casts the late, iconic duo with some marital dynamics under the [...]
Don’t Look Up
Messy, overlong but also deeply satirical, Don't Look Up plays like an extended SNL skit. Adam McKay's follow-up to Vice, and his most satirical political film yet, amounts to a [...]
France
Brimming with confident craftsmanship, cynicism, satire, and dramatic weight, Bruno Dumont's ferocious France views France's political climate and mass media through its anti-hero, a French reporter named France (Lea Seydoux), [...]
West Side Story
Steven Spielberg has previously dabbled in the visual rhythms of musical theater -- see the opening of Temple of Doom for a prime example -- but has never made a [...]
Bruised
Oscar-winner Halle Berry pulls double-duties as director/star in her directorial debut Bruised, a Rocky wannabe that struggles to offer much in terms of nuance or truth in a tired, overlong [...]
Drive My Car
A chronicle of grief, healing, and the power of the creative process are all familiar themes we have seen numerous times before, but rarely are they executed with the delicateness, [...]
Benedetta
A provocative and subversive condemnation of dogmatic oppression that is undercut by an overstuffed screenplay and an over-the-top third act with overripe melodrama is all found in Paul Verhoeven's (Robocop, [...]