The Handmaiden (2016)
“What does a man really want?” I specifically remember spending a California Christmas at my grandparents’ apartment as a young boy. Walking through the courtyard, tossing pennies into the fountain, […]
Category Archives: Mystery
Arrival (2016)
“We are so bound by time. By its order.” I was recently recommended a podcast called The Ezra Klein Show. Klein’s a liberal journalist and the editor-in-chief at Vox. Klein, […]
The Girl on the Train (2016)
“We were the saddest people we knew.” The abundant stories in The Girl on the Train are the products of pretty people who get bored too easily. Their lives look well-manicured, but the […]
Morgan (2016)
“Morgan is no longer viable.” How to describe Morgan? I could say any number of things. Flippantly shallow, hysterically self-serious, a distasteful mix of pea-brained and moronic ideas. And that’s just the […]
Nerve (2016)
“The only way out is to win.” One glance at Nerve’s poster, flush with two flawless faces drenched in color, could serve as evidence to surmise that this is a surface level […]
The Conjuring 2 (2016)
“After everything we’ve seen, there isn’t much that rattles either of us anymore.” Fairly early in the film, young Janet (Madison Wolfe) sits on the couch in her London flat […]
The Family Fang (2016)
“If you’re in control, then the chaos will happen around you and not to you.” After sitting through Jason Bateman’s previous directorial effort, 2013’s slandering and loud-mouthed Bad Words, I came into […]
Allegiant (2016)
“Revenge doesn’t change anything.” At this point, with one more chapter still left doomed to fail, the Divergent Series feels like a set of quadruplets thrust into the hamfisted hands […]
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
“I’m going to keep you alive.” In most respects, or at least for the majority of its runtime, 10 Cloverfield Lane is a guessing game of cat and mouse. Tinges of murder […]
The 2016 Academy Awards: Predictions and Thoughts
It’s important to know while watching the Oscars that the nominees and the winners don’t necessarily represent the best of 2015. In fact, as I finish my Top 50 list […]
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