Celebrates nothing, except perhaps the vaguest, blandest sense of what one could call “Western values.”
Film Reviews
Skyscraper
Only in a marketplace crowded with superhero movies and franchise fare could a movie about…
A Swingers Weekend
The promise and specter of a better movie—better acted, better explored, better delivered—is all we’re…
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda perfectly captures the somber side of the beloved composer but fails to…
Under the Tree
There is just no indication that the team making the film knows how to bring…
Bleeding Steel
Bleeding Steel isn’t a great Jackie Chan movie, but it’s at least a few notches…
Ant-Man and the Wasp
This breezy superhero picture may be what we deserve, and just what we need most.
Sorry to Bother You
Sorry to Bother You is an incredibly funny film, but it offers one of the…
Whitney
Macdonald paints a picture of Whitney Houston as a complicated human being, powerful but vulnerable,…
Three Identical Strangers
Three Identical Strangers is the true story of scientific overreach and, ultimately, human tragedy.