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A Major Misfire of a John Travolta Performance Anchors the Dismal The Fanatic

People on the Autism spectrum like myself have to deal with a lot of...let's say troublesome de…

The Burial of Kojo Finds Humanity In Stylized Dreams

Much like Sean Baker's The Florida Project, The Burial of Kojo is a story about the struggles …

Doctor Sleep Manages To Be More Than Just 2 The 2 Shining

Every brand with even a modicum of fame is getting exploited for sequels, reboots, TV shows and eve…

The Fantastical Is Brought To Stunning Life In Princess Mononoke

A few months back, I wrote about how much better animation is when it's engaging in stories and…

Scorsese And Gangster Cinema Collided For The First Time On Mean Streets

With The Irishman dropping on Netflix streaming this coming Wednesday, now seems like a fine time t…

Road to Perdition Is A Crime Thriller That Sticks With You

It’s amazing what a difference a hat can make. Like a pair of glasses, a person can look totally di…

Greta Gerwig's Little Women Takes An Iconic Story And Makes It Brand-New

Why should we do another  Little Women movie? Now, one could simply respond to that with "If …

The Irishman Is Like No Other Gangster Movie Scorsese Has Ever Made

Early on in The Irishman, the film's titular lead character, Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), r…

Death by Hanging Confronts Ludicrous Prejudice With Equally Ludicrous Dark Comedy

It was supposed to be a simple execution. R (Don-yun Yu), son of Korean immigrants raised and livin…

Edward Norton's Motherless Brooklyn is an Undercooked Film Noir Homage

You can't help but root for Motherless Brooklyn, that rare modern-day adult-drama movie releas…

Pedro Almodovar Rips From His Past To Create Modern-Day Gem Pain and Glory

The past tends to echo well into the future in ways we sometimes can't even comprehend as well …

Slut in a Good Way Combines Raunchy Comedy With Thoughtful Commentary

Back in October 2019, Joker director Todd Phillips commented  that he had left making comedic movie…

Heat's Character Scenes Are Only OK But Its Heist Sequences Are Sublime

Before they worked together on The Irishman and Righteous Kill , Al Pacino and Robert De Niro'…

Crime Leads To Despair in the Fascinating Thriller Birds of Passage

CW: Mention of sexual assault Barenaked Ladies' song for the Chicken Little soundtrack One Lit…

Woman in the Dunes Uses Subtle Techniques To Chill You To The Bone

Some movies can make eloquent use of graphic on-screen violence to generate tension. John Carpenter…

I Live In Fear Is A Brutal Rumination on Inescapable Paranoia

In I Live in Fear , the past doesn't just have an ominous presence, it practically blankets the…

The Last Temptation of Christ's Compelling Humanity Makes It One of the Best Scorsese Movies

Martin Scorsese is known for his gangster movies and for good reason, he's made one of the …

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