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Judging purely by scale, Rabbit Trap could have been made during the depths of the COVID pandemic. Set on an isolated Welsh hillside that gives way to a dense and disorienting forest pushes thoughts of the wider world out of your mind. The cast consists of just four people, one of whom is relegated to […]
Between the complications inherent in releasing movies during the COVID pandemic, lending his voice to animated features, and the limited theatrical runs enjoyed by most streaming studio fare, Relay marks Riz Ahmed’s return to the screen in a starring role. So it’s quite bold that for its first thirty minutes, we don’t hear his voice. […]
Welcome to the year of the romcom! Much has been made of the genre’s disappearance from the theatrical experience. True, they still flood streaming services, with Netflix distributing the best of recent years in Richard Linklater’s Hit Man. But with the exception of Anyone But You, few have made any noise either at the box […]
After a couple of fake trailers for amusingly dumb horror flicks, it was a genuine surprise that the opening of the film was shot from Jimmy’s (writer/director Joe Begos) perspective. We’re along for the ride in real-time as Jimmy putters and mutters about his apartment, doing coke and smoking grass and downing whiskey and watching […]
True crime has been around for hundreds of years, arising not long after the invention of the printing press. Whether it serves as a warning to the populace that a pleasant neighborhood is no guarantee of safety, or as pure entertainment designed to satiate our innate curiosity about the unfathomable darkness that lies inside others, […]
The very first scene of Oh, Hi! announces the shape the story will take. Iris (Molly Gordon) has beckoned Max (Geraldine Viswanathan) to the vacation home she’s sharing with her boyfriend, Isaac (Logan Lerman), for the weekend. Both women are in disbelief about an unnamed “bad thing” that Iris has done to Isaac. The scene lasts […]
It’s dizzying how quickly Danielle Deadwyler burst into the limelight. Her screen debut came over a decade ago, after which she only occasionally worked but was often hailed as the highlight when she did. Her supporting role in The Harder They Fall in 2021 finally made general audiences take notice, and 2022’s Till earned her […]
Every shark movie lives in the shadow of Jaws. While not the first, it had an immediate and lasting impact on movie culture and the industry. For one, it spawned a bunch of imitators, most of which failed to make any impression, much less a comparable one. Even once that initial wave subsided, and shark […]
I was fortunate enough to catch the New England premier of Sister Midnight at the Boston Underground Film Festival back in March, where I listed it as one of the best features of the festival. A huge benefit of catching an early screening is knowing nothing about the film beyond the title until the lights […]
Steppenwolf is a movie at war with itself. It doesn’t seem to know what to make of its own story, as what it seems to be saying shifts multiple times. On more than one occasion, Braiyuk (Berik Aytzhanov) responds to questions about death by laughing and pretending to fuck a large, floppy, plush dog. His […]