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2010s

Prisoners: Brute Farce

May 14, 2023May 1, 2023 by M.C. Myers
Prisoners Hugh Jackman

Prisoners uses competent visuals and juggernaut acting to hide behind an impression of mysteriousness that its screenplay never fully justifies.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Denis Villeneuve, Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano, Roger Deakins, Thriller Leave a comment

The Tree of Life is Malick’s Memory Epic

February 15, 2023 by M.C. Myers
The Tree of LIfe

The Tree of Life is an all-encompassing memory of a tiny life. It can’t help but stand in for all of us.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Brad Pitt, Drama, Jessica Chastain, Terrence Malick Leave a comment

What is Everyone’s Problem With Star Wars: The Last Jedi?

April 5, 2023December 15, 2022 by M.C. Myers

Star Wars: The Last Jedi continues to be debated out of passionate frustration. This is an exploration of what’s right and wrong with this bizarre movie.

Categories Features, Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Action, Carrie Fisher, Daisey Ridley, Disney, John Boyega, Laura Dern, Mark Hamill, Movie Series, Oscar Isaac, Rian Johnson, Science Fiction, Sequel, Star Wars Leave a comment

Prometheus: Creator’s Angst

April 18, 2023June 1, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Prometheus Michael Fassbender

The much-maligned Prometheus hides an epic sci-fi fable despite failing to satisfy its own ambitions. Fassbender is genre-defining.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Alien, Charlize Theron, Guy Pearce, Horror, Idris Elba, Michael Fassbender, Noomi Rapace, Prequel, Ridley Scott, Science Fiction 1 Comment

Godzilla: King of the Monsters – Faithless Tribute

September 11, 2022June 1, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Godzilla King of the Monsters

Godzilla: King of the Monsters avoids the essence of its brand almost as aggressively as it avoids working on its script.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Bradley Whitford, Godzilla, Ken Watanabe, Michael Dougherty, Millie Bobby Brown, Movie Series, Sally Hawkins, Science Fiction, Sequel, Vera Farmiga 1 Comment

Locating Realism in The Revenant

November 28, 2022May 11, 2022 by M.C. Myers
The Revenant

The Revenant is a powerful statement on cinematic realism affected but not marred by its real toil. It’s old cinema made epic again.

Categories Featured Article Tags 2010s, Alejandro Inarritu, Based on a Book, Biopic, Emmanuel Lubezki, Leonardo DiCaprio, Revenge Thriller, Tom Hardy Leave a comment

Interstellar: Feeling Machine

April 29, 2022 by M.C. Myers

Interstellar’s brilliant technical filmmaking hinges on a story thwarted by melodrama. Its head is full of ideas, but its heart is empty.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Anne Hathaway, Casey Affleck, Christopher Nolan, Hans Zimmer, Hoyte Van Hoytema, Jessica Chastain, Matthew McConaughey, Michael Caine, Sci Fi, Science Fiction Leave a comment

Let Me In: Warm Leftovers

June 2, 2022April 20, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Let Me In

Let Me In is an arousing remake that makes a cautionary tale more streamlined, romantic, and cathartic, three things it probably never intended to be.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Chloe Grace Moretz, Greig Fraser, Horror, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Matt Reeves, Vampire Leave a comment

Zack Snyder vs Superman: Why Intent Became Conflict in Man of Steel

June 14, 2022February 2, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Man of Steel Zack Snyder

A response to Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel as well as to the debates about it, including both its problematic execution and its honest desire for greatness.

Categories Features Tags 2010s, Action, Amy Adams, Comic Book Movie, DC Comics, DCEU, Fantasy, Henry Cavill, Kevin Costner, Laurence Fishburne, Russell Crowe, Science Fiction, Superman, Zack Snyder Leave a comment

Saint Maud: Timid Prophet

March 5, 2022January 6, 2022 by M.C. Myers
Saint Maud Morfydd Clark

Saint Maud is a confident debut from a promising filmmaker, but its self-imposed genre tropes become limitations that hold it back from greatness.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Horror, Jennifer Ehle, Morfydd Clark, Rose Glass Leave a comment

First Man: Cultural Breakthrough

March 27, 2022December 16, 2021 by M.C. Myers
First Man Ryan Gosling

With First Man, Damien Chazelle takes us to space and still thinks the most important things are the ones we left behind. The best film of 2018.

Categories Film Reviews, Great Films Tags 2010s, Based on a Book, Biopic, Claire Foy, Damien Chazelle, Kyle Chandler, Ryan Gosling Leave a comment

Brooklyn: Cautious Fairytale

December 23, 2021December 9, 2021 by M.C. Myers
Brooklyn Saoirse Ronan

Brooklyn is a well-meaning new version of the kind of movie we used to make much more easily. It’s not masterful, but at least it’s respectable.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Based on a Book, Domhnall Gleeson, Jim Broadbent, Julie Walters, Romance, Saoirse Ronan Leave a comment

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – Force Illusion

May 4, 2022December 6, 2021 by M.C. Myers
Star Wars The Rise of Skywalker

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is as sloppy for its artists as embarrassing for its fans. It is brand mismanagement in visual form.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Action, Adam Driver, Carrie Fisher, Daisy Ridley, Harrison Ford, Ian McDiarmid, John Boyega, Mark Hamill, Movie Series, Oscar Isaac, Science Fiction, Sequel, Star Wars 1 Comment

Enemy: The Right Wrong Man

March 22, 2022November 25, 2021 by M.C. Myers
Enemy Jake Gyllenhaal

An analysis of Villeneuve’s dreamy thriller, Hitchcock accelerated to spiritual attack speed. Arachnophobes beware.

Categories Film Reviews, Great Films Tags 2010s, Based on a Book, Isabella Rossellini, Jake Gyllenhaal, Melanie Laurent, Thriller Leave a comment

Ad Astra: Space Melodrama

April 23, 2022November 25, 2021 by M.C. Myers
Ad Astra Brad Pitt

Ad Astra attempts to be a space opera and family melodrama. Failing both makes even its best intentions seem misplaced from other films.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Brad Pitt, Donald Sutherland, James Gray, Liv Tyler, Ruth Negga, Science Fiction, Tommy Lee Jones Leave a comment

Midsommar: The Director’s Cut – Empowerment Horror

February 18, 2022November 21, 2021 by M.C. Myers

Ari Aster’s Midsommar shows the dark side of empowerment, which is its main success. That so many consider it a self-help film is its main curiosity.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Ari Aster, Florence Pugh, Horror Leave a comment

1917: Tech Epic

November 13, 2022November 13, 2021 by M.C. Myers
1917

1917 is a capable demonstration of technology matched to an overreaching story. Exactly what meets the eye.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Action, Benedict Cumberbatch, Sam Mendes, War Leave a comment

Alice Through the Looking Glass: To the Anti-Wonder

December 23, 2021November 4, 2021 by M.C. Myers
Alice Through the Looking Glass

Alice Through the Looking Glass is to wonderment what purging is to eating. It not only robs you of your meal – it even makes you regret it.

Categories Film Reviews Tags 2010s, Anne Hathaway, Based on a Book, Disney, Fantasy, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp, Movie Series Leave a comment

Rocco

December 23, 2021November 1, 2021 by Bryce Jones
Rocco

In Rocco, thematic duplicity is even more apparent in the disjunction between the film and its subject, the international porn “giant,” Rocco Siffredi.

Categories Guest Contributors Tags 2010s, Biopic Leave a comment

Paddington 2: Steamboat Bear Jr.

December 23, 2021November 1, 2021 by M.C. Myers
Paddington 2

Paddington 2 sparkles with manners and a belief in beauty. Everyone was opening the doors for each other on the way out of the theater.

Categories Film Reviews, Great Films Tags 2010s, Based on a Book, Ben Whishaw, Hugh Grant, Movie Series, Paddington, Sally Hawkins, Sequel Leave a comment

The Insignificance of Language in It (2017)

December 23, 2021November 1, 2021 by Bryce Jones

It is a movie with no individual voice and, appropriately enough, it treats language as an impediment to be renounced.

Categories Guest Contributors Tags 2010s, Andy Muschietti, Finn Wolfhard, Horror, Remake, Sophia Lillis, Stephen King Leave a comment

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