“It’s okay to be vulnerable sometimes.” It’s hard to describe Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets without imitating Bill Hader’s famous SNL character Stefon as he hyped up a New York night […]
“If we go there we’ll die.” Christopher Nolan seems to be a director and a storyteller obsessed by the passage, the overall meaning, and the possibility of exploring different pieces […]
“I did not start this war.” As overtly and obviously religious in tone as it is visually inspired by the Fall of the Roman Empire, War for the Planet of the […]
“Are you frightened?” The Beguiled is not the sort of film where you should ever try to dwell upon any one thing it tries to be about. It’s too sprawling, […]
“There’s not just going to be a magic spark. You have to work at it. You have to be open to it.” It’s as if spouses and writers Kumail […]
“If it’s cheap, they’ll eat it.” Okja takes place in the present day for a reason. Rather than push its lavishly hyperbolic take on an old Aesop Fable out into a […]
“Does no one value true art anymore?” Movies like Despicable Me 3 – alongside other recent animated films such as the insultingly stupid The Secret Life of Pets or the scattershot The Good Dinosaur […]
“I feel like I could be doing more.” As the sixth leading role in a film since the dawn of the new millenium – and the third reboot of the […]
“One little miscalculation and the whole thing fails.” I’m happy that it took a long seven months, but I have now finally seen my least favorite film of 2017, and […]
“What’s it gonna’ be like when it’s just us?” I will say this for The House; beneath its endless charade of constant ad-libbing and high-concept farce, the film dares to poke fun […]
