Review by Andrew Swafford
Starfish is not really a horror film. It’s something else – and that something is kind of beautiful.
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Starfish is not really a horror film. It’s something else – and that something is kind of beautiful.
Read MoreReview by Nadine Smith
The first thing we see Moondog do is save a stray cat. Opening with that old screenwriting adage— if you want us to like your character, write a scene in which they save a cat — might make you think we’re supposed to be endeared to the titular sea-side ass of Harmony Korine’s latest film. But Moondog isn’t like the rest of us Earthlings; he transcended everyone else’s opinion of him long ago.
Read MoreReview by Nathan Smith
For better or worse, Dragged Across Concrete is neither the totally hateful and bigoted movie you’ve been warned about nor the formalist masterpiece you’ve been promised.
Read MoreReview by Courtney Anderson
I imagine that Jordan Peele’s brain is kind of a chaotic place, with millions of ideas, societal critiques, and rational thoughts flying around at rapid speed. I also imagine that every nightmare, moment of fear or spike of anxiety Peele’s ever had is running around freely, too.
Read MoreBy Zach Dennis, Michael O'Malley, Diana Rogers, Lydia Creech, Andrew Swafford, and Reid Ramsey.
Note: These films are not ranked by quality, but rather in chronological order.
Read MoreRetro Review by Reid Ramsey
Last week, charges were brought against Felicity Huffman as part of an investigation of a widespread college admissions scandal. There’s one strange caveat in all of it, though: the document fails to mention Huffman’s husband, William H. Macy, and only ever refers to him as “spouse.” While it can be dubious to compare real-life crimes to fictional ones, this whole situation did have me asking one question: If given the opportunity, how might Jerry Lundegaard (William H. Macy) have committed this crime?
Read MoreReview by Courtney Anderson
This movie really just needed tighter writing. It doesn’t have any super glaring issues, and it’s certainly not the first Marvel movie to have problems with exposition and character development – nor is it the worst of the offenders.
Read MoreA conversation between Andrew Swafford and Mike Thorn
It seems like most people who have reviewed the film have some sort of passionate stance about black metal, which, in almost every case, has elicited anger.
Read MoreReview by Logan Kenny
Happy Death Day 2U possibly has the most beautiful view form of resurrection in recent memory. Instead of making it about a desperation to cheat your reality and write your loss out of this history, it’s about cherishing the time you have left – the chance to properly say goodbye.
Read MoreReview by Nadine Smith
Though it’s a few degrees below the Wachowskis, Alita is the kind of genuinely cinematic, good-natured blockbuster filmmaking that’s all too scarce in Disney’s gated community.
Read MoreReview by Jessica Carr
When I saw The Breaker Upperers, I was immediately caught up in the chemistry of writer-director-star duo Jackie van Beek and Madeleine Sami.
Read MoreBy Zach Dennis, Courtney Anderson, Michael O'Malley, Jessica Carr, Diana Rogers, Ash Baker, Lydia Creech, Andrew Swafford, and Paige Taylor.
Note: These films are not ranked by quality, but rather in chronological order.
Read MoreReview by Logan Kenny
Regardless of whether it is or not – I certainly hope it isn’t – this feels like the last film of Eastwood’s career. It feels like a goodbye. The film doesn’t attempt to justify him for his selfishness, nor redeem him for his failures and criminal decisions over the runtime, but rather it shows the beauty of someone trying to be better before it’s too late.
Read MoreRetro Review by Diana Rogers
The genius of this movie is that it takes a premise that's been done time and time again – by daytime drama and YA novels alike – and transforms it into something that is both accessible and transcendent. It's a viewing experience worth luxuriating in.
Read MoreReview by Logan Kenny
Zemeckis is more interested in coating his actors’ faces in hideous doll CGI and referencing his past works in a disorientating cluster of explosions and overpriced imagery than he is interested in reckoning with the tragedy of his protagonist.
Read MoreFestival Coverage by Jessica Peña
We’ve all been young at some point. We’ve all probably loved something, someone, lost touch with ourselves, regained ourselves. To come of age can mean to relinquish your pains, trade them for new beginnings, and even let them simmer in the hopes that you’ll eventually figure this all out. It can mean finally putting yourself first, forgiving the past that’s shaped you, or finding common ground with others through mischief. Five distinctively unique films at this year’s Sundance Film Festival explore those desires and pains. From Chicago to a snoozy beachside town in Uruguay, these five films are examples of our evolving human experiences.
Read MoreReview by Diana Rogers
Sometimes the women don't look fabulous while they're going about the business of being complicated and fascinating. Sometimes they're middle aged and overweight, un-corseted, gout-ridden and wearing eye makeup that makes them look like a badger. Some of the most celebrated male roles are those that revel in their characters' flaws, their actual human-ness. It shouldn't be so uncommon for women to feature in similar parts, yet somehow it still feels revolutionary, because it happens far too infrequently.
Read MoreReview by Reid Ramsey
Upon reflection, what first appeared to be a self-congratulatory commentary on art reveals itself to simply be a five dollar gore-fest; and the movie is all the better for this reason.
Read MoreBy Zach Dennis, Logan Kenny, Andrew Swafford, Jessica Pena, Lydia Creech and Diana Rogers
**NOTE** This is not in ranked order
Read MoreReview by Nadine Smith
M. Night Shyamalan has given us many twists over the past two decades. But there’s another twist waiting in the wings. M. Night Shyamalan got your attention and your dollars with Split, and instead of fulfilling your expectations or building a new cinematic universe, he’s used it to make one of the strangest studio movies of the last decade, a superhero movie that is everything superhero movies aren’t supposed to be.
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