Let’s talk about ‘Barbenheimer’, a genuinely organic phenomenon that produced one of the greatest box office weekends in Hollywood history. In an industry that has turned adversarial opening weekend competition into a standard, the ideaRead Full Review
Month: July 2023
Oppenheimer
One of the appeals of Christopher Nolan is the way he embraces genre in ways that are enriching but never patronizing. His approaches to noir (Following, Memento) or science fiction (Inception, Interstellar) or war films (Dunkirk) willRead Full Review
Afire
Writer-director Christian Petzold is one of the best screenwriters on the planet, and his style of filmmaking is a kind of modest formality that excels at showcasing his incredible writing and the terrific performances heRead Full Review
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning, Part One
Tom Cruise’s dedication to the movies is such that appreciating his films goes hand-to-hand with appreciating said dedication simultaneously. The grandiosity of his ego means that his endless commitment to his films cannot go unnoticed.Read Full Review
Joy Ride
We’ve had two films from earlier this year – Davy Chou’s Return to Seoul and Celine Song’s Past Lives – delve into the displacement of Korean children raised in Western countries. Both dramas, Seoul is a scabby indieRead Full Review