Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Tension and Gendered Power Dynamics Permeate Kitty Green’s Australian Outback Drama The Royal Hotel

Inspired by Pete Gleeson’s 2016 documentary about two Finnish backpackers, Hotel Coolgardie, the latest from director/co-writer Kitty Green (The Assistant), The Royal Hotel, concerns a pair of Canadian best friends […]

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Review: In Glass Onion, Detective Benoit Blanc Returns for a Burn-the-Rich Murder Mystery

As much as I enjoyed writer/director Rian Johnson’s Knives Out, nothing quite prepared me for how much I laughed during the follow-up Glass Onion, the mystery-solving adventure of the world’s […]

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Review: Ryan Gosling Is a Steely Assassin in Russo Brothers’ Action-Heavy The Gray Man

I suppose it wouldn’t take that much of a suspension of belief to assume the government would hire professional killers to do its dirty work from time to time; I […]

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Review: In Resurrecting The Matrix, the Fourth Installment Feels Stale and Sadly Familiar

Matrix Resurrections

It’s astonishing that there are those criticizing how Spider-Man: No Way Home bends multiple Spider-Man universes in on themselves, but they don’t seem to have any issues with the latest […]

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Review: Underwater Gets Right to the Action, Kristen Stewart Leading the Way

Underwater

I spent most of director William Eubank’s (The Signal) newest film, Underwater, on the verge of really liking it, waiting for that one original element to push me over the […]

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