Sometimes movies function on all cylinders, everything working towards a single goal. Other times—perhaps more often—elements of a film are at odds with each other. These disparate elements may simply not mesh well or they could work actively against one… Read More ›
Read any critic long enough and you’ll notice that they have certain hobby horses. They will tell you over and over again about how various movies fail or succeed at something that they find particularly interesting, or regularly return to… Read More ›
It would be very easy to nitpick “Gringo,” the new comedy directed by Nash Edgerton with a script from Anthony Tambakis and Matthew Stone. After all, plenty of scenes don’t work, there are more coincidences than one can shake a… Read More ›
Charlize Theron’s latest film, “Atomic Blonde,” is aggressively stylistic. From the opening moments to the closing ones, it is a film focused on performance – the performance of the camera, the performance of the songs, the performance of the editing,… Read More ›
Suspension of disbelief. Some movies require it more than others. The entire “Fast and Furious” franchise asks that viewers have oodles upon oodles of it, and the eighth installment in the series, “The Fate of the Furious,” is certainly no… Read More ›
