Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
“No true hero is born from lies.” There’s no mincing of words when it comes to the message Wonder Woman 1984 quite desperately aims to impassion and inspire its audience with, […]
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Downsizing (2017)
“What won’t they think of next?” For roughly 45 minutes or so – approximately 1/3 of the film’s increasingly tiresome duration – Downsizing is all aces. It’s intelligent, witty, and the art […]
Despicable Me 3 (2017)
“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 […]
Masterminds (2016)
“All I ever really wanted was adventure.” Masterminds approaches comedy in a grounded, hunched over position, fumbling around for a light switch in the dark and mining for a toilet seat […]
Sausage Party (2016)
“He’s flawed, as are we all.” Well, Sausage Party certainly is insanely ambitious, as well as deserving of a harsh reproach. It asks not if walls could talk, but if the food […]
Ghostbusters (2016)
“It’s really easy to sit there and be a naysayer when you don’t actually do anything.” Try to imagine a world without the 1984 film and I think this 2016 […]
Zoolander 2 (2016)
“That’s not me anymore.” Anytime I watch a comedy, I simultaneously try to see the movie through the eyes of my younger self. Would little me like this? Would he […]
Nasty Baby (2015)
“Just use this as an opportunity to calm down.” Nasty Baby is a film that sets out to alienate its audience. We first meet a performance artist named Freddy (played by […]
The Martian (2015)
“I’m not gonna die here.” The Martian is the ultimate crowd-pleaser of a movie. It’s an adventure unafraid to declare that being smart is cool, and that having a sense of […]
The Diary of a Teenage Girl (2015)
“Alienation is good for your heart.” Watching The Diary of a Teenage Girl feels intrusive. As if we snuck into the theater, with a world unfolding onscreen that was never supposed to […]
