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Say what you will about Nic Pizzolatto’s True Detective, but it was one of the few shows on television (along with Noah Hawley’s Fargo)...
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Say what you will about Nic Pizzolatto’s True Detective, but it was one of the few shows on television (along with Noah Hawley’s Fargo)...
The Last Kumite is an homage to a very particular sub-species of martial arts film: the 1980’s and early 90’s western wave of bone...
Beverly Hills Cop (1984) is a perfect film: an inverse of the “country bumpkin coming to the big city” trope that goes back to...
In film criticism, we use “epic” as a shorthand for a long form film with a large cast and sprawling story, but the classical...
Just as Starman feels, in part, like John Carpenter pulling back from the unhinged alien horror of his previous masterwork The Thing, Matinee feels...
There really are two directors called Luc Besson. There’s the one who came to worldwide prominence through Subway and continued to make his name...
Writer/Director Paul Schrader’s favorite subject is the solitary man who, upon finding that the world will not bend to his will, shuts himself...
Two of the three great Hitchcockian nightmares are on full display in Anthony Waller’s forgotten thriller classic Mute Witness: first, the idea that...
Bad Lieutenant is an NC-17 grimy, vicious, and shocking New York crime film from one of the most talented exploitation directors, Abel Ferrara, that...
The trouble is, it’s just not true. This is a movie about how your grandparents were phonies and the city you live in is...
Sooner or later, the check always comes due. The Godfather, The Conversation, The Godfather Part II, and Apocalypse Now were all stone cold...
Along with 1883 and 1923, Lawmen: Bass Reeves is the third period western miniseries from Yellowstone creator Tyler Sheridan. The series was initially conceptualized...
“Failure can be forgiven but success will always be punished.” – Sergio Leone In 1966, Sergio Leone completed The Good, the Bad, and...
Two years after its six episode run, the most interesting thing about revisiting Moon Knight is that it feels like the most serious break...
Point Break is a cult classic: the film occupies a space that was uncommon in 1991, and unheard of now: the action-thriller with A-list...
We often say (to the point of cultural cliche) that “they couldn’t make this film today” but James Cameron’s love letter to the spy...
One of the best sequels ever made, James Cameron’s Aliens instinctively knows exactly which aspects of Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic Alien to embellish and...
Face/Off is an important moment in the Hollywood stage of action master John Woo’s career because it represents the only time that Woo was...
The Abyss was James Cameron’s Close Encounters of the Third Kind: a non-traditional passion project dealing with weightier science-fiction themes than normal for a...
Fargo is one of the greatest American films of all time. Like Hannah and Her Sisters, it has the feeling of a great novel...
I don’t normally discuss marketing in these reviews but I must make an exception here: there is no more representative aspect of the strange...
Is there any more perfect combination on paper than Bill Murray’s cinematic persona of “jerk who learns the value of his fellow man” and...
Critics often use the word “Hitchcockian” to describe scenes that evoke Psycho or Frenzy: long knives, killers stalking, deep psychological torment. This isn’t necessarily...
The Equalizer series has been one of the most interesting and dramatically fruitful adaptations of a classic television series in recent memory. The property...