Madeline’s Madeline (2018)
“What are we making?” Experimental, emotionally overwhelming, and appropriately dressed in shades of ambiguity, Madeline’s Madeline is an obscure and enigmatic film that’s comfortable in the many skins it so easily […]
Category Archives: Thriller
Hunter Killer (2018)
“We don’t really know what’s going on up top.” Hunter Killer is like a thinly sketched, unthreatening version of the three-headed Greek monster Cerberus. It’s a beast that barks plenty […]
Halloween (2018)
“He’s waited for me. I waited for him.” Released almost exactly 40 years after John Carpenter’s iconic original – and after ditching all of the loose consequences and false avenues […]
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)
“We made a pact and we’re going to keep it.” I Know What You Did Last Summer pulls off a feat very few genre pictures have proven to be capable […]
Bad Times at the El Royale (2018)
“Which side are you on?” Some movies are short but linger like zombies who just won’t quit. Others feel long because the road they travel is far too ambitious and […]
Peppermint (2018)
“Nothing’s gonna bring your family back.” Within the first 10 seconds of Peppermint, as the camera hovers over a shaking car and eventually cuts to the inside with two people fighting […]
The Nun (2018)
“We have no other choice.” As one of the dumbest, darkest and most dim-witted movies of the year, The Nun allows us to see through the shadows because it wastes so […]
Searching (2018)
“We are gonna figure this out together.” Searching is a family film, just not one in the traditional sense. As it reflects the growing anonymity of the internet age and […]
The Darkest Minds (2018)
“If they catch you, they’ll kill you.” With absolutely no originality and hardly any unique visual style, The Darkest Minds treats the massive drama at its center with no respect. Instead […]
Mission: Impossible – Fallout (2018)
“There has never been peace without first a great suffering.” One of the best action films of the 21st Century and perhaps one of the greatest ever made, Mission: Impossible – […]
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