B ugonia has all the ingredients of a great film: A top-shelf director (Yorgos Lanthimos), Oscar-level players (Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons), and a compelling premise (more on that in…
T he world has long outgrown the need for more Frankenstein movies. Mary Shelley's warhorse has been mangled, spoofed, and repurposed hundreds of times over the last hundred years. Every new…
T wo very different films exist within One Battle After Another: On one hand, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson delivers a frenetic, relentlessly exciting chase movie featuring relatable characters and…
I n the span of one film, Sinners addresses everything I dislike in the horror genre. Where most releases are rickety, disposable, and intended for fast income, Ryan Coogler delivers a…
E ven before its release, the deck was stacked against The Dark Knight Rises. The track record for sequels is not promising; threequels are even flimsier. (Seriously, count the great third…
T otal Recall marries some truly audacious sci-fi concepts to a traditional Arnold Schwarzenegger action epic. It's an unholy union, to say the least: A man's shaky grasp of his…
T he Substance bundles several movies into one ungainly package: Midnight-black comedy mingles with more spraying blood than a GWAR binge on Youtube. Stinging social satire flows through flourishes of…
Jaws in space." -- The original studio pitch for Alien.
T hat's a catchy hook for a sci-fi horror flick, and no doubt it helped get Alien bankrolled at 20th Century Fox. It…
S crooged ranks amongst the bleakest and most sarcastic Christmas films ever made. It transmutes A Christmas Carol into the soulless, frenetic commercialism of 1980s America. On paper, this change…
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