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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Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020)
“Can’t tell a fool nothin’.” Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom gives us so much to reconcile, to consider, to wrestle with. The co-leading duo of quite literal masterful performances both sport […]
Disturbia (2007)
“He can feel us watching.” It’s an interesting choice for a thriller to open up in a state of calm, giving us a sense of stability before everything goes topsy-turvy. Disturbia […]
Widows (2018)
“I don’t own anything.” Widows cleverly uses the spirit of the legendary Nina Simone, imparting her collected calm and jazzy timbre from “Wild is the Wind” into a picture that pairs […]
Fences (2016)
“You gotta take the crookeds with the straights.” Over the course of Fences, with its inflated length ready to burst at the seams and its thoroughly mouthy lectures mired by unmistakable […]
Suicide Squad (2016)
“I’m known to be quite vexing.” Not long removed from my screening and I’m still struggling to digest the unpalatable artificiality that is Suicide Squad, one of the most poorly written […]
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them (2014)
“Do you ever wonder why we fall in love with a specific person?” The vast majority of us have had the loves of our lives enter and just as easily exit […]
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