The Trials of Muhammad Ali: Too Short for such a Life
Directed by Bill Siegel (The Weather Underground), The Trials of Muhammad Ali is a brief film that plays more like a precis of Ali’s life…
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Mission Park — Too Familiar to Be Isolated
Among brilliant moments are those that we have seen many times before.
Lovelace — Hardly Goes Deep Enough
There is too much too familiar and too much lost in this precis of the porno chic era.
Mud — When “Love” Becomes its own Character
Matthew McConaughey turns in his third great performance in a row in a tale about our cultural anxieties over love.
Red 2 — Throwing Every Idea to a Wall
If only they would stay retired…
The Conjuring — What Haunts Us
An antithetical horror story.
Bond Retrospective 17: GoldenEye
After a six year break, GoldenEye became the rebirth of the Bond franchise, this time featuring Pierce Brosnan as 007. While License to Kill marked…
The Canyons — Ellis, Schrader, and Nihilism
The Bret Easton Ellis trope of masturbatory nihilism is obvious in the first few moments of The Canyons upon Ryan’s rhetorical interrogative, “does anyone really…
Bond Retrospective 16: License to Kill
After a steady succession of films in the Bond franchise released every two years, the much darker and much more violent (until Casino Royale, that…
Despicable Me 2 — The 40 Year Old Reformed Villain
Gru returns, this time as a doting father figure whose loneliness is the biggest villain of the film.