Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey (2020)
“It was time for Gotham to meet the new Harley Quinn.” Ever the true New Yorker (or, in this comic inspired setting, the quintessential Gothamite), Harley Quinn (a dynamite Margot […]
Tag Archives: Mary Elizabeth Winstead
Gemini Man (2019)
“It was like I was seeing a ghost.” Ten months into the calendar year and I’m not quite sure that I’ve had a more disappointing time at the cinema than […]
All About Nina (2018)
“You’re not familiar to me.” If comedy truly boils down to tragedy plus time, then there have been very few films of late that so stridently prove the equation to […]
The Hollars (2016)
“Can we cut the s*** here, for a second?” People do not experience emotions the way they are portrayed and supposedly felt in The Hollars, one of the year’s biggest disappointments and […]
Swiss Army Man (2016)
“This is crazy.” It’s hard to know what the hell I watched, or to what level I enjoyed it, or how to properly summarize the experience that is Swiss Army Man. Parts feel […]
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 […]
Alex of Venice (2015)
“What do we want to leave behind?” A number of questions are posed by the characters over the course of Alex of Venice, a harmless film without any real motive. There is […]
Faults (2015)
“I’m just waiting for a sign from God.” Faults, like the majority of independent American cinema, searches for a sense of originality and ubiquity by means of distancing itself from its […]
The Spectacular Now (2013)
“I think it’s good to have dreams, don’t you?” Unlike most other movies of its kind, The Spectacular Now finds a way for us to remember the high school experience […]
