Project Hail Mary — An Intergalactic Rom-Com Matt Goddard Rock-solid cinematic fun. It is down to Ryan Gosling’s amnesiac fish out of water (AKA human out of earth) to kick off this year’s post-Awards blockbuster season. The masterminds behind it are...
The Secret Agent — A Brilliant Genre-Juggler Matt Goddard But the leg came back... The euphemism of a ‘mischievous time’ appears at the beginning and near the end of The Secret Agent. As the eye-catching symbol of a yellow VW Beetle recurs...
The Bride! — A Scream Of A Film She's really alive! Maggie Gyllenhaal’s confident love letter to cinema and primal, feminist scream is a theatrical tour de force. That means it demands to be seen on the biggest and loudest screen possible—it’s the only...
How to Make a Killing — A Wasted Plot Matt Goddard Kind hearts? There’s a moment about halfway through How To Make A Killing where Margaret Qualley’s Julia laments that she thought Glenn Powell’s Becket Redfellow would be more fun. You may well think the...
Sentimental Value — A Delicately Spun Web Of Family Meta A Scandinavian Jewel Joachim Trier’s delightful family drama taps deeply into themes of family as it treads the line between art and life. Its real power is that it manages to work on so many levels,...
