Christian Sesma’s Into the Deep is the latest on a growing list of smaller-scale shark-attack movies that are more than underwhelming; they’re insulting. It’s one thing to stomach the no ...
He then did the next best thing: Shackleton made a movie about what that movie would have looked like. ("How many people are going to watch this, realistically?" Shackleton wonders during the film.) ...
As the movie unfolds, Iris (Thatcher ... Companion keeps revealing twists until its climax, which will not be spoiled in this review, but they're all fun and well-established.
but its real legacy could end up being the stress test it provides to well-established movie tropes at a moment when even our definition of personhood is up for renegotiation.
Since his flirtation with retirement about a decade ago, filmmaker Steven Soderbergh has been working at an almost feverish pace, cranking out film after film, usually genre exercises made swiftly ...
But more than anything, it’s a family therapy session filtered through a horror movie in a way that practically makes the spooky bits superfluous. The haunted-house aspect is almost a red herring.
The film is a saga about Brutalist architecture spread over three-and-a-half hours and punctuated by an intermission, a movie device I had thought was extinct. Yet, it’s already won the Venice ...
To invoke the cliché, you owe it to yourself to experience this movie. With the singularly talented director Walter Salles (“Central Station,” “The Motorcycle Diaries,” “Dark Water ...
But, you watch a Jackie Chan movie to see him move. When it's a different face, at best, it obscures his still impressive feats, and at worst, causes viewers to question if it's even still him.
The hit-and-mostly-miss satire of the latter movie is a clear stepping stone to greater things, evidenced by A Real Pain, which finds him honing his screenwriting voice, and turning up in the ...
Steven Soderbergh has never been one to shy away from formal experimentation. Whether he is working within the studio system or independently, shooting on 16mm film or an iPhone, innovation is his ...