Review by Zach Dennis
Ant-Man and the Wasp isn’t a vindictive or evil movie, but there’s something very half-cooked in its bones.
Read MoreEvangeline Lilly and Paul Rudd as Wasp and Ant-Man in Ant-Man and the Wasp.
Billy Howle and Saoirse Ronan star in director Dominic Cooke's On Chesil Beach
ALTERNATE TAKE: On Chesil Beach (2018) by Dominic Cooke
Review by Lydia Creech
Asexual audiences probably already know not to expect better, but I worry the general public will walk away thinking this scenario was a balanced argument and portrayal of an asexual character attempting to navigate (or not) a sexual relationship.
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John Krasinski and Noah Jupe star in A Quiet Place
ALTERNATE TAKE: A Quiet Place (2018) by John Krasinski
Review by Ben Shull
A couple weeks ago, a highly-esteemed/respected Cinematary critic published a write-up on John Krasinski’s latest sci-fi thriller, A Quiet Place. While I agree with a couple of the reviewer’s grievances, particularly regarding the scoring of the film, there were a few main points that I couldn’t get behind. The critique had a much more scathing tone than I felt it deserved and I wanted to throw my own opinion into the mix because I do believe this to be an important film among the modern cinematic canon and, ultimately, within the science fiction genre.
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Reese Witherspoon and Storm Reid in A Wrinkle in Time
ALTERNATE TAKE: A Wrinkle in Time (2018) by Ava DuVernay
Review by Courtney Anderson
Wrinkle is a personal film. It’s a DuVernay project through and through: it’s all about love and light and hope with a little Black girl at the center. And I, for one, am very grateful for it.
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Jennifer Lawrence stars as mother in director Darren Aronofsky's new film
Alternate Take: mother! (2017) by Darren Aronofsky
Zac Efron and Chloë Grace Moretz star in director Nicholas Stoller's Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016) by Nicholas Stoller
Alternate take by Andrew Swafford
(Read original review by Zach Dennis here)
Not only does Neighbors 2 not develop or connect any of its ideas about gender in the Greek system, but it unfortunately takes many ugly and unwarranted passes at other sensitive social issues as well, lacking any of the tact or nuance needed to make insightful humor out of some of our world's most depressing realities.
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