The Suicide Squad (2021)
“Nothing like a bloodbath to start the day.” Funny until it becomes crass and gross and vulgar, and action-packed to the point of being overloaded with bloods and guts in […]
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Black Widow (2021)
“Where are we going?” Mid-tier Marvel with a pronounced highlight on the power of makeshift family, Black Widow is both a semi-salutary sendoff to a character whose obituary has already been […]
A Quiet Place Part II
“There’s nothing left.” At the end of the first film back in 2018, audiences were left dipped and drenched in the limitless love of a mother for her children. And […]
Stowaway (2021)
“We didn’t make mistakes like this.” Featuring a quick, effective open that introduces us to this world with a great deal of authenticity, Stowaway proves to be one of the rare […]
Tenet (2020)
“Don’t try to understand it…feel it.” Pure Spectacle. That’s all Tenet amounts to, really. And I’m not sure there’s a shorter or more appropriate way of describing Christopher Nolan’s latest […]
Project Power (2020)
“What’s your power?” What an intriguing concept: a single pill gives you unique, primal powers at 5 minutes a pop. There’s something to be had with such a big and […]
The New Mutants (2020)
“You know how much trouble we’re going to get into for this?” It’s both upsetting and undeniable to call The New Mutants a relentlessly short yet unequivocal disaster. The kind […]
The Vast of Night (2020)
“Stick with our station and get lost in our sounds.” Deeply inspired by the past while being privy to futuristic predictions, The Vast of Night is the kind of low-budget, micromanaged, […]
Vivarium (2020)
“That’s just the way things are.” From the telling opening sequence until the depressing finale, Vivarium makes a distinct point of reading then showing the complex, parasitic fine print details […]
The Platform (2020)
“Hunger unleashes the madman in us.” More conceptually intriguing than it is satisfying by the nondescript end, The Platform nevertheless confronts its position on systemic injustice through sci-fi satire, pointing […]
