It used to be that you could just fart out a movie like No Hard Feelings with a movie star like Jennifer Lawrence and get an automatic $100 million. Those days are seemingly over, and thereRead Full Review
Month: June 2023
Asteroid City
For all the gripes about Wes Anderson’s thematic vapidness, the filmmaker may actually be one of his generation’s most emotionally sensitive directors. His catharsis is often packaged within a dense collection of literary allusion, cinematic verbosity,Read Full Review
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
WARNING Although I only speak theoretically, the main conceit of this review might be seen as a **SPOILER**, so any and all people who want to avoid that as much as possible should probably not read.Read Full Review
Past Lives
Celine Song’s film debut, Past Lives, pulls off a trick that few can do: it manages to illustrate the power of memory, the way it wains over time before fully arresting us when we least expectRead Full Review