Ad Astra - A futuristic deconstruction of masculinity packaged as a big-budget sci-fi spectacular, James Gray’s Ad Astra travelled light years beyond expectations (critically) while underperforming at the box office. In a towering, career-defining performance, Brad Pitt plays an … [Read more...]
Harry Styles Surprises Us All: The “Dunkirk” Reviews Are In and He’s Uh.May.Zing
You can all breathe a sigh of relief, our boy Harry is supposedly quite good in Dunkirk. The former One Direction heartthrob was the object of some derisive jibes when it was announced last year that he was cast in Christopher Nolan's World War II epic. OBVIOUSLY he was brought … [Read more...]
“Baywatch” Movie Universally Panned –”One Big Fat Wallow in Instant Stupid”
No one who goes to Baywatch this weekend is expecting high art, the TV show it's based on certainly wasn't. But why is it THIS bad. Full disclosure, I have NOT seen it, but if you pay any attention to [Read more...]
It’s a Rave: The LA Times Reviews Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures
"'Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures' brings a complex artist into fine focus," says the [Read more...]
More Rave Reviews for Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures!
The rave reviews keep piling … [Read more...]
Matt Baum Explains Why Stonewall Insults the Memory of the Real-Life Rioters
By now you've seen the scorched earth reviews of Roland Emmerich's Stonewall (and if you haven't, by all means start with [Read more...]
The First Review for Stonewall Is Here, and It’s Blistering (to Say the Least)
IndieWire has seen the movie we've all been told to be patient about and hold off from judging, and, um, the news isn't very good for director Roland Emmerich. Apparently it's just as terrible as we … [Read more...]
The Reviews Are In: Angelina Looks Uh-Maaaa-Zing, But Maleficent is Only So-So
The critics are somewhat divided on Maleficent, the revisionist origin story of Sleeping Beauty's nemesis, starring a cheeky Angelina Jolie and an apparently dull-as-dishwater Elle … [Read more...]
I Sat Through Nymphomaniac Volume 1 So You Don’t Have To
I went to the front lines of extreme cinema, and what I found wasn't so extreme. Nymphomaniac, you've read all about it: Lars Von Trier's latest in his oeuvre of … [Read more...]
The Onion Reviews Catching Fire: “Peta’s Not Ugly, He Just Could Have Been Way Cuter”
Noted film critic Peter K. Rosenthal examines the new Hunger Games movie and assesses the hotness of the boys in the cast. … [Read more...]
