Potter isn’t what you’d call subtle, but she also knows not to overstay her welcome, and this pithy comedy is a masterclass in all that a filmmaker can squeeze from the most basic theatrical concept …
The chemistry between Bateman and McAdams explodes in every scene.
The characters talk extensively about what matters to them rather than what matters to the plot, exposing themselves, sharing the worries that keep them up at night.
The narrative is needlessly complicated, and it all seems crafted just to build to a single joke voiced in the third act.
Get Out director/writer/producer Jordan Peele, in partnership with Universal Pictures, has decided to show free screenings of Get Out one day only on Monday, February 19, at select AMC Theaters. In celebration of the anniversary of its initial release, and its four Oscar nominations; you can see the film for free…
It’s a twisty-turny crime drama complete with stolen money, vengeful mob bosses, and all sorts of strange coincidences and random dialogue digressions
The film has three sections, and each part seems to assume a different set of genre conventions, a different set of emotional cues.
The latest film, the long-delayed The Death Cure, opens with a train heist that suggests, at once, the Mad Max films, the Fast & Furious franchise, and The Wild Bunch by way of Young Guns by way of a Gap ad
When these performers get the chance to exchange dialogue, to react to each other rather than declaim the movie’s themes, Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool rouses to life.
Here’s the Marvel movie even non-Marvel fans are prepared to root for — the rare black superhero film.
Those seeking out some titillating times would be better satisfied by Googling “feminist porn” and clicking randomly.
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Citizen Rose is strongest at the start, when it juxtaposes McGowan’s present-day anguish with the media coverage of her as a young starlet.
Great News has a screwball charm and a flair for rapid-fire jokes, built on a premise that amusingly literalizes the classic sitcom concept of coworkers as family.
The Ritual finds a quartet of British lads/drips hiking through the deserted woods of northern Sweden.
While the film does insist on its own irreverence a bit too much at the outset, it offers plenty of lively fun once it settles down.
The ninth annual edition of the event kicks off February 9.
The Insult is a little pushy, sometimes even tough to swallow, but no more than actual geopolitics.
Mockler seems to be striving for profound revelations about human connection (or lack thereof) in the digital age.
I’m Time’s Up-invigorated and ready to BURN IT ALL DOWN, so please take all my recommendations with a grain of salt, because if it stars a white man, I’d like to see it in the garbage can
For much of The Final Year, convinced of Hillary Clinton’s victory, Obama’s crew insist that their successes and failures are part of a continuity.
That’s the real thrill: hose moments when your perception of what is possible on this Earth expands like a blowfish puffing up.
