Filmmaker Robert Eggers discusses his remarkable—and terrifying—new movie.
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Prepare Yourself for The Witch
Filmmaker Robert Eggers Discusses His Remarkable—and Terrifying—New Movie
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Deadpool: Cue the Guns, Swords, and, Oh, so Many Jokes about Ball-Related Trauma
DEADPOOL Trivia Time™! Did you know that’s actually Macaulay Culkin in that suit? Wild! Deadpool, Ryan Reynolds’ second crack at Marvel’s most in-your-face character (following a forgotten appearance in the misbegotten X-Men Origins: Wolverine) is a terrifically faithful adaptation of some awfully obnoxious source material. If you’re a pre-existing devotee, the film’s nonstop assortment of […]
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Deadpool Is a Terrifically Faithful Adaptation of an Awfully Obnoxious Comic
Cue the Guns, Swords, and, Oh, so Many Jokes about Ball-Related Trauma
Cue the guns, swords, and, oh, so many jokes about ball-related trauma.
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The Safe Satire of Our Brand Is Crisis
OUR BRAND IS CRISIS “Okay… let’s try that scene again, this time with George Clooney.” Director David Gordon Green has had one of the damnedest careers in modern filmmaking, drifting between the gorgeous Terrence Malick-ness of George Washington to the barn-broad goofiness of Pineapple Express with seemingly negative perspiration. The new political semi-satire Our Brand […]
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Our Brand Is Crisis Keeps Semi-Satire Safe
David Gordon Green Should Lose the Guardrails
David Gordon Green should lose the guardrails.
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Bridge of Spies: Spielberg Teams Up with the Coen Brothers, Nails It
BRIDGE OF SPIES “Why, yes, my refrigerator is running. Why do you ask?” The farther he moves away from temples of doom, altered suburbs, and shooting stars, the easier it is to somehow underestimate Steven Spielberg. (Yes, yes, Crystal Skull, I know.) Even at his most earthbound, though, the filmmaker’s basic chops still reside somewhere […]
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Bridge of Spies‘ Cold War Skullduggery!
Spielberg Teams Up with the Coen Brothers, Nails It
Spielberg teams up with the Coen brothers, nails it.
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Black Mass Is Another Excuse for Johnny Depp to Wear Goofy Makeup
BLACK MASS “This is how many Pirates of the Caribbeans I should’ve made.” Look, I’m not saying that any harm should come to whoever first compared Johnny Depp to Marlon Brando, but I do hope that they at least feel a little bit guilty. While their raw talent may well be comparable, Depp moved far […]
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Black Mass Is Another Excuse for Johnny Depp to Wear Goofy Makeup
Somebody Stop Letting Him in the Makeup Trailer!
Somebody stop letting him in the makeup trailer!
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Hitman: Agent 47 Fumbles for the Reset
HITMAN: AGENT 47 Not pictured above: Timothy Olyphant. Now that comic book movies have conquered the world, can video game adaptations follow the same path? Well, not yet, no. Despite a few promising moments of splattery clarity, Hitman: Agent 47 displays little of the vicarious imagination that keeps gamers glued to the couch. Taking a […]
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Hitman: Agent 47 Fumbles for the Reset
Whee! Another Video Game Movie You Didn’t Ask For!
Whee! Another video game movie you didn’t ask for!
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Fantastic Four Is Grim, Gritty, and Boring
FANTASTIC FOUR “Wait. I think we did the math wrong.” Even among the legions of characters in long underwear, the Fantastic Four have always stood apart, both for their squabbling family dynamics and an endearingly retro squareness. The latest attempt to move the team to the big screen captures, well, exactly neither of those aspects, […]