A Portland-set wreck of a meta-drama.
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The Texture of Falling Review: Like Portland, Except Boring
A Portland-Set Wreck of a Meta-Drama
Eric D. Snider
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The Mercury‘s Favorite Movies of 2017: The Girl with All the Gifts
You know how half the movies now are based on young adult novels about adolescent girls in post-apocalyptic wastelands, and the other half are about zombies? The Girl with All the Gifts is both! It’s a clever improvement on the genres, too—set several years after society was decimated by a cannibalism-inducing contagion, and focused on […]
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Aaron Sorkin’s Molly’s Game Sure Is Aaron Sorkin-y!
After writing several wordy screen plays and a few endearingly verbose TV shows, Aaron Sorkin sits down in the director’s chair with Molly’s Game, a fact-based story that is every inch An Aaron Sorkin Film. Walking and talking? Earnest speeches? Social justice? Daddy issues? You bet! This uneven but entertaining lark comes from a 2014 […]
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Aaron Sorkin and Jessica Chastain Play Molly’s Game
Is Her Game… Jenga?
Is her game… Jenga?
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God’s Own Country Is A Subtle, Sensual Drama
God’s Own Country begins with a young, smooth-chested, naïve-looking Yorkshire man vomiting all night, then rising early to give a pregnant cow a gynecological fisting. Do not be alarmed. These actions make perfect sense: The fellow, Johnny Saxby (Josh O’Connor), is given to over-drinking, and he lives on a farm with his stroke-hobbled father (Ian […]
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A Trip to God’s Own Country
An Autobiographical—and Sensual—Coming-of-Age Drama
An autobiographical—and sensual—coming-of-age drama.
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Get Out: Clever, Scary, and Very Of-the-Moment
Get Out is a feature-length version of the not-quite-joking sentiment among African Americans that the suburbs, with their overwhelming whiteness and cultural homogeneity, are eerie twilight zones for Black people. Far from being a one-joke movie, however, Jordan Peele’s directorial debut is both a clever, consistently funny racial satire and a horror film, one that […]
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Get Out of White Suburbia
Jordan Peele’s Directorial Debut Hits Horror, Satire, and Race
Jordan Peele’s directorial debut hits horror, satire, and race.
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Of Course James Franco Is in King Cobra
Despite being a true story of jealousy and murder in the world of gay porn, King Cobra is neither thoughtful enough to find meaning in it, nor seedy enough to turn it into trashy fun. Instead, it’s a blandly watchable, ultimately pointless melodrama aimed at titillating gay audiences without actually satisfying them. Garrett Clayton, a […]
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Gay Porn (and James Franco) in King Cobra
Oh, and Melodrama. Also Melodrama.
Oh, and melodrama. Also melodrama.
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Eddie the Eagle Will Infect You with His Enthusiasm
EDDIE THE EAGLE “Thumbs up for me! I got to meet Wolverine!” Face it: You’re not fast enough to be Jesse Owens, and you don’t have the willpower to train yourself to be. But if a 24-year-old British nerd who’s never ski jumped before can ski jump in the Olympics, then (theoretically) anyone can! That’s […]