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Hold the Dark
When critics of all stripes – film, TV, video games, music – write about art that is hard to pin down aesthetically, you’ll often see them use a specific word: dreamlike. Nightmarish if it skews darker. Dreams are an especially apt grounding point for movies because of the way they’re both constructed. There’s a separation…
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To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
While the rest of cinematic world rolls on, consumed with thoughts of superheroes, popular film Oscars, and who’s directing the next James Bond, Netflix has quietly been revolutionizing its library of content. Ahead of an award season slate featuring the likes of Alfonso Cuarón, David Mackenzie, and Jeremy Saulnier, the booming streaming company has enjoyed…
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Cargo / Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom / Sicario: Day of the Soldado
Welcome to another edition of Mini-Review Roundup where we present smaller reviews of several movies at once. Up this time: Cargo, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, and Sicario: Day of the Soldado. Cargo The zombie genre has just about come and gone in this era of prestige television and volatile blockbusters. The Walking Dead,…
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Beauty in Simplicity – A Conversation with Anna Frances Ewert
Lovers of the Night is equal parts tender and rapturous, acting more as an on-screen relationship than a documentary. With her camera trained on the intimate monotony of everyday life, Anna Frances Ewert takes us into an Irish monastery, imbuing her work with the very soul of its walls and residents. You wouldn’t be mistaken…
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Solo: A Star Wars Story
In the continued Hollywood landscape of expanding universes and intellectual property mining, very few franchises feel at home apart from their source material. Comic book movies have, well, their comic books. Book series like Game of Thrones and old films like Westworld find their homes in prestige television ventures. But perhaps no existing franchise feels…
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Hereditary
Despite the billing it has received, Hereditary is not primarily a horror film. Yes, it continues A24’s unsettling run of hybrid horror successes, along with The Witch and It Comes At Night. And yes, it is the scariest, most unsettling movie to hit theaters in years. But at the heart of Hereditary’s blackened soul lies…
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You Were Never Really Here
One of the hardest things to do in a movie theater in 2018 is to surprise. With bloodthirsty marketing campaigns and relentless internet sleuths, any promising movie twist is usually dead in the water months before it hits the silver screen. The rare exception comes in the form of the occasional indie hit or maybe…
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Isle of Dogs
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Unsane
In my mind, one of the calling cards of all great movies is the way they stay with an audience well after the credits have rolled. Stunning visuals, great dialogue, actors at the height of their powers — these things are all fine. But there’s an indefinable quality that the best filmmakers seem to be…
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True/False Film Festival 2018 Day 4
