Okja (2017)
“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 […]
“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 […]
“Every day feels exactly the same.” Everything, Everything doesn’t stand a chance from the start because its head rests somewhere other than on the shoulders of a dependable and thoughtful script or […]
“That’s how you do it, Baby.” Ask me to describe Baby Driver in one line and you’ll get a different response every time. “Take True Romance’s Bonnie and Clyde love affair and splash in some […]
“I don’t know about this.” I fear that too many of us take simple-minded and daring movies like 47 Meters Down for granted, especially because when they’re done well – as this […]
“More alien rubbish.” It’s never a promising sign when I go through my scribbled notepad after a movie and find the followings lines: “I’m already lost,” “Literally can’t tell what […]
“Besides marriage and kids, what else is there?” The intimate, delightful, and at times painfully tragic Menashe is a film that comes to you as a blindsiding surprise, welcoming and inviting us […]