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…
A Hard Day's Night captures the Beatles in that brief window where they all loved being Beatles. The mania they inspired was still a novelty, and they greeted it with…
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…
I n interviews, Christopher Nolan has cited Heat, Michael Mann's 90s-noir masterpiece, as a reference for his approach to The Dark Knight. Naturally, the resulting film borrows quite a few storytelling beats…
B atman Begins largely succeeds by finally giving the title character the respect he deserves. For a decade, the franchise had languished in a campy, overblown hell. Previous filmmakers had…
A s a critic, I am bound to acknowledge Raiders of the Lost Ark as the franchise peak. After all, that film represents a perfect alloy of highfalutin craftsmanship…
S omewhere in my youth, I decided that Raiders of the Lost Ark is a perfect movie. Since then, I've come back to it many times, and every rewatch brings the…
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