Saltburn
Emerald Fennell goes from Promising Young Women to dismantling young men in this dark comedy set in a debauched mansion. Let’s call it Downtown Abbey. Saltburn follows Oliver Quick (Barry […]
Tag Archives: 2023
Poor Things
Pinocchio meets Frankenhooker in the sci-fi they should have called Pinocchi-ho. Set in Victorian London, Poor Things concerns a mad scientist (Willem Dafoe) who puts a child’s brain in an […]
Maestro
Bradley Cooper returns to music-based relationship drama in this biopic of American composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein. Let’s call it A Tar is Born. As both actor and director, Cooper delivers a […]
Dream Scenario
Nicolas Cage goes from saving pigs to counting sheep in this black comedy about a man who appears in multiple people’s dreams. Dream Scenario is presumably based on the “This […]
Napoleon (2023)
Since we had the distinction of watching Napoleon at Waterloo, it joins the ranks of Isle of Dogs (which we saw on the Isle of Dogs), Threads (which we saw […]
Anatomy of a Fall
This French drama follows Sandra (Sandra Hüller), a German writer living in Grenoble. One day her husband (Samuel Theis) falls from a window to his death, and before you can […]
May December
Child abuse comedies have somewhat gone out of vogue since the glory days of Home Alone, but Todd Haynes is here to give the genre an overdue glow-up. Based on a […]
Thanksgiving
This slasher flick concerns a stampede at a Black Friday sale, a familiar image for anyone who has visited a Westfield or read the short story I wrote 3 years […]
Past Lives
A pair of childhood sweethearts (Greta Lee and Teo Yoo) reconnect in this semi-autobiographical, inter-continental, star-crossed love story. Spanning 24 years, the plot follows Na Young from Seoul to New York […]
The Exorcist: Believer
Inspired by The Exorcist‘s defiling of a childhood bedroom, director David Gordon Green trashes a beloved property in this heretical sequel. 50 years after the events of William Friedkin’s Catholic […]
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