THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT (2016)
[usr 2.0] Identity and the search for self play an integral role in the structure of good YA fiction. It’s therefore as ironic as...
HIGHLANDER (1986)
[usr 3.0] Highlander was released in North America on 7 March 1986 to mixed-to-negative reviews and little success at the U.S box office. A...
CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON: SWORD OF DESTINY (2016)
[usr 2.5] For all its critical and commercial success back in 2000, Ang Lee’s martial arts epic Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon doesn’t get talked...
AUDITION (1999)
[usr 4.0] The early-2000s were the era of the Japanese horror movie. Films like Ring, Dark Water, and The Grudge occupied the supernatural part...
SUFFRAGETTE (2015)
[usr 3] Wonder Woman is a child of the suffragette movement. The symbols we associate with her strength and power belonged to the American...
BONE TOMAHAWK (2015)
[usr 3.0] Bone Tomahawk is, for the most part, a character-driven western with lots of talky scenes. It’s also a bloody and violent western...
SLEEPING WITH OTHER PEOPLE (2015)
[usr 3.0] Sleeping with Other People was self-deprecatingly pitched by its own writer-director as “When Harry Met Sally for assholes” when it debuted at...
OUT 1 (1971)
[usr 5.0] Jacques Rivette is an ongoing revelation for me. News of the French director’s death broke as I was part way through watching...
THE FINEST HOURS (2016)
[usr 3.5] With Brooklyn, Carol, and now The Finest Hours, films set in 1952 are having a bit of a moment. Here, the story...
THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
[usr 5.0] While the Oscars often overlook genre movies, horror movies, in particular, are rarely included among the Academy’s nominees. The exceptions tend to...
DEADPOOL (2016)
[usr 3.0] Let’s start with the good news: this version of Deadpool is a hundred times more entertaining than the first outing for the...
PRIDE & PREJUDICE & ZOMBIES (2016)
[usr 3.0] Based both on Jane Austen’s classic Pride & Prejudice and Seth Grahame-Smith’s parody novel of the same name—adding re-animated corpses into the equation—Pride...