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...
THE LOBSTER (2015)
[usr 4.0] It has been clear for some time that the leading lights of the ‘weird wave’ of Greek cinema would not be able...
HAIL, CAESAR! (2016)
[usr 3.5] The Coen brothers’ filmography is heavily populated with desks and the men who sit behind them. In the Coens’ universe, desks serve...
DAD’S ARMY (2016)
[usr 2.0] Among the fine tradition of classic British sitcoms, few stand as revered—or, indeed, as British—as Dad’s Army. Set during World War II,...
GOOSEBUMPS (2015)
[usr 4.0] If you grew up in the ’90s, there’s a good chance R. L. Stine’s Goosebumps books were one of your formative forays into...