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Alien: Romulus is almost everything you could want from a soft reboot of the Alien films: strong evocation of the production design and...
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Alien: Romulus is almost everything you could want from a soft reboot of the Alien films: strong evocation of the production design and...
Robert Harmon’s The Hitcher is one of the greatest horror films of the 1980’s, full stop. It’s also so much more. A dark...
Those who have been reading my reviews on this site for some time know my great affection for the work of Indonesian gore-king Timo...
Director Wes Craven struck gold in his 1972 debut with Last House on the Left, a grindhouse remake of an art house classic...
Nine Queens is an Argentinian noir made in 2000. Directed by the late Fabián Bielinsky with a quick and lively realism on the...
In the late 90’s it was hard to find an actor on a stronger career trajectory than Nicolas Cage. After 1995’s Oscar winning...
1973’s Enter the Dragon was an atom bomb of cool dropped on an American public that was looking for somewhere, anywhere, to be other...
After the cultural phenomenon that was The Sixth Sense, writer-director M. Night Shyamalan followed it up with Unbreakable: a movie which is startling...
Despite being originally released in 2002, Death to Smoochy is a black comedy time capsule of pre-9/11 American cynicism. Casting children’s television as...
At the height of his commercial power after Carrie, The Fury, Dressed to Kill, and Scarface had all outperformed expectations, Brian De Palma resolved...
Kinds of Kindness is an anthology of moods. Director Yorgos Lanthimos calls it “an absurdist anthology” but this is as misleading as it...
Movies that require comedians to carry them with their acting skills are always a dicey proposition and one would be forgiven for regarding a...
In film criticism, we use “epic” as a shorthand for a long form film with a large cast and sprawling story, but the classical...
The Sixth Sense was a cultural touchstone in 1999: endlessly referenced, parodied, and discussed by America at large. The film’s catchphrase, “I see...
Very few films portray male friendship with the energy of Doug Liman’s 1996 breakout hit Swingers. What is so rewarding about the film nearly...
It’s always a blessing to review a new John Woo film, and to get two in less than a year makes this Year of...
There’s been a deluge of Hong Kong action from boutique Blu-ray labels in the past few years, but one area which has been...
The Mighty Quinn is probably most noteworthy to most film buffs as a strong, early performance in Denzel Washington’s career, but for this...
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...