The Menu (2022)
“We’ll endeavor to make your evening as pleasant as possible.” Full of folly and fear and glazed with the false pursuit of confectionary perfection, The Menu is fun fodder worth chewing […]
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The Wonder (2022)
“Prove it’s nonsense.” To watch The Wonder is to step into a confessional only to find no divider between the priest and the penitent; here seeing is part of the believing, […]
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022)
“Your brother is with the ancestors.” Intimate and epic. Bold, colorful, otherworldly, built with great scale and by a collective of inspired eyes. This flawed yet grieving film is rich […]
Barbarian (2022)
“I don’t know what the protocol is for something like this.” Sometimes you watch a film and just know from the opening sequence – so long as the wheels don’t […]
Halloween Ends (2022)
“You should give in.” Mature and scarred on the surface yet often sullenly morose and jejune on the inside, Halloween Ends is destined to be one of the most divisive […]
Don’t Worry Darling (2022)
“There is beauty in control. There is grace in symmetry. We move as one.” Even though it so earnestly errs towards being mysterious, Don’t Worry Darling doesn’t try to hide […]
Nightmare Alley (2021)
“I’ll meet you on the other side.” In context with the above quote, and aligned with filmmaker Guillermo del Toro’s general approach to the nuances of noir that I’ve seen […]
Boiling Point (2021)
“I can’t give you what I haven’t got.” I can’t remember the last time I left a film feeling the way I did after watching Boiling Point, one of 2021’s best […]
Halloween Kills (2021)
“Tonight we hunt him down.” It’s a struggle for me to ever really feel one way or another about a new Halloween movie when it’s been released. Most people are […]
F9: The Fast Saga (2021)
“This is who we are.” Not since I was in the 4th grade – back when 2001’s The Fast and the Furious served as the inaugural linchpin to this now […]
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