It’s not an exaggeration to say that Hollywood has found only middling success at best when it comes to reckoning with the MeToo movement, perhaps in part because audiences have to weigh the obvious irony. As we all know by…
Falling Review: Viggo Mortensen’s directorial debut is an excruciating melodrama about fatherhood | Sundance 2020
Viggo Mortensen has starred in many avant-garde dramas about troubled middle-aged men, but Falling is the veteran actor’s first time directing and writing is own film, as well as starring in it, naturally. His first movie is a personal one, as it’s…
Summertime Review: Teenage poets slam an admirable, but clumsy new story about LA life | Sundance 2020
Summertime is, fittingly, a movie about time itself and its “little surprises.” We waste time wasting away on social media, while unbeknownst to us, we’re side characters in another time waster’s story happening not too far away. A single day can…
Miss Americana Review: Taylor Swift reexamines her reputation on her own terms | Sundance 2020
Early in Miss Americana, a new Netflix documentary from director Lana Wilson (The Departure), ascendent pop star and newly-minted political activist Taylor Swift comments on how her fans tend to “grow up” with her, which she finds to be a problem…
‘Dolittle’ Movie Review: The name fits. This probably won’t do much for you.
Originally titled The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle, the simplified family comedy Dolittle stars Robert Downey Jr. as the acclaimed veterinarian who can miraculously speak to animals. Hugh Lofting created the character during World War I in illustrated letters to his…
Cats Movie Review: So bad, it might make you mad, but also glad?
Cats. They’re cats. They’re furry and dance well. Cats. They’re cats! Welcome to Cats hell. They dance like humans, look like humans, but are…still…cats, though I can’t tell? Taylor. Swift. She’s the cat who is not nice! Rebel. Wilson. The…
Black Christmas Movie Review: Bold politics aren’t enough to make this slasher any less formulaic
Christmas and horror are the peanut butter and chocolate of movie genres. They’re two completely distinct flavors that shouldn’t go well together in theory, but when they do, it’s usually a recipe for success. Black Christmas is certainly a film…
