Babygirl Pulls A Switcharoo
Halina Reijn’s Babygirl aims to be a smart sexy erotic drama. The film succeeds in making its leads look sexy but fails to be the erotic thriller of the season…
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- nickel boys
- January 29, 2025
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Nickel Boys Wants To Put You In Hell
Nickel Boys, RaMell Ross’s directorial debut, is based on a Colson Whitehead book of the same name. RaMell Ross has been behind the camera before, but never for a feature…
Presence: A Ghost Story in Reverse
Presence takes the classic ghost story movie and turns it on its head. Rather than following a family getting spooked by an afterlife entity, we follow the action from the…
- flight risk
- January 24, 2025
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Flight Risk Needs A Pilot
Mel Gibson’s newest film Flight Risk is a far cry from some of the actor/director’s greatest hits. While polarizing, there are some truly great films in Gibson’s directorial filmography. From…
- the brutalist
- January 17, 2025
- 2 Comments
The Brutalist: Monumental Says Everyone
A lot of superlatives have been thrown around when describing Brady Corbet’s newest film The Brutalist. But one word has come to define and surmise both the film and the…
- January 17, 2025
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Wolf Man Is Too Much Metaphor, Too Little Monster
Leigh Whannell’s newest film Wolf Man is both a technical achievement and a narrative bore. This pseudo-remake of the well-known lycanthrope legend starts off strong before diving into too many…
- the last showgirl
- January 15, 2025
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The Last Showgirl: A Life Well-Wasted
Gia Coppola’s latest film The Last Showgirl is a fascinating look at life in the arts. Well, not exactly the arts. But maybe arts adjacent? Unlike Paul Verhoeven’s inscrutable Showgirls,…
- den of thieves 2
- January 10, 2025
- 2 Comments
Den of Thieves 2: Unnecessary Fun
Christian Gudegast returns to the Den of Thieves world with Den of Thieves 2: Pantera. Where the first film was a smaller contained Los Angeles-based crime story, this one is…
- a complete unknown
- January 8, 2025
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A Complete Unknown: The First Time You Heard Dylan
James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown is barely a movie. There is very little conflict through the first two acts. The main conflict of whether Dylan will go electric is softened…
Nosferatu Makes Vampires Scary Again
Robert Eggers has struck magic with his Christmas day release Nosferatu. This remake of a 1922 silent film of the same name bears the same general plot but creates a…
