Movies 6 years ago

Buffaloed (2020): Zoey Deutch makes the debt-collecting comedy of her career

Zoey Deutch plays Peg Dahl with razor-sharp intelligence, turning a debt-collecting underworld comedy into the most surprising indie of 2020. Tanya Wexler's Buffalo becomes the backdrop for a performance that refuses to ask for sympathy and earns something…

Movies 6 years ago

Dangerous Lies (Netflix): a cast that earned more than this script delivered

Dangerous Lies arrives on Netflix with a cast that finds more in the margins than the screenplay put…

Movies 6 years ago

Extraction: how Netflix’s relentless action film put craft before story

Sam Hargrave's debut put the stunt coordinator in the director's chair and gave Netflix its most physically committed…

Movies 6 years ago

The Usual Suspects: A Masterclass in Misdirection and Deception

The final shot lingers on Verbal Kint limping away, the truth of his identity as Keyser Soze left…

Movies 6 years ago

The Devil Wears Prada (2006). Movie Reviews

The Devil Wears Prada is a 2006 movie starring Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep. It’s directed by David…

Movies 6 years ago

Run (2020): How Aneesh Chaganty Turns Maternal Love Into the Perfect Trap

Aneesh Chaganty's 2020 Hulu thriller builds its horror from what the camera refuses to show. Sarah Paulson's controlled…

Movies 6 years ago

The Invitation – Movie Review 2015

A dinner party is the perfect excuse for a plot to make a good and efficient movie: The…

Movies 6 years ago

Unforgiven: the film that refused to let the western lie about itself

Clint Eastwood's 1992 masterwork dismantles the western's mythology of righteous violence with spare, controlled precision — four Academy…

Movies 7 years ago

Knives Out (2019)

Rian Johnson wrote this tribute to Cluedo, Agatha Christie… Knives Out is a classic and entertaining whodunit. With…

Movies 7 years ago

Movie Review: Midsommar (2019) – Shocking, Twisted. . Genuine Horror

Midsommar is a film written and directed by Ari Aster, starring Florence Pugh, that is very, very interesting,…

Movies 7 years ago

‘Get Out’ (2017). Movie Review

Jordan Peele writes and directs his debut feature, a work of intrigue and horror loaded with… interracial themes.…

Movies 7 years ago

‘Melancholia’ (2011), by Lars von Trier: Heartbreaking

A mixture of seemingly opposing genres that blend together in this original work by Lars von Trier. Melancholia…

Movies 7 years ago

Anna: Luc Besson revisits La Femme Nikita with Sasha Luss, and the echo still has teeth

A slick, professionally made spy thriller that Luc Besson has constructed before — and done better. Helen Mirren…