Why couldn’t the bald guy be named “Peele”?
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Key and Peele Are Great! Keanu Isn’t.
Why Couldn’t the Bald Guy Be Named “Peele”?
Vince Mancini
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Everybody Wants Some!! Is Richard Linklater: The College Years
Over the course of two hours, Everybody Wants Some!!, Richard Linklater’s “spiritual sequel” to 1993’s Dazed and Confused, goes from detestable to damn near loveable—it’s an eventually enjoyable movie that I almost walked out of. It’s broad and cheesy and kind of porny, but eventually you come to realize that it’s not “college” porn, but […]
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Richard Linklater Goes Back to School with Everybody Wants Some!!
A Middle-Aged Man Looks Back on His College Years and Only Remembers the Parts That Were Super Awesome(!!)
A middle-aged man looks back on his college years and only remembers the parts that were super awesome(!!).
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Netflix’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Sequel Knows It’s a Little Silly
Sixteen years after the original, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is back… on Netflix! That’s the irony of the Netflix business model, staying relevant by reviving properties from decades past. The first Crouching Tiger, directed by Ang Lee, was nominated for 10 Academy Awards, winning four, and to some extent felt like the natural evolution of […]
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Netflix’s Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Sequel Is Goofier Than the Original
That’s Not a Bad Thing.
Sixteen years after the original, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is back… on Netflix!
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Somehow a Movie Starring Two Tom Hardys Ends Up Being Dull
LEGEND It’s the wackiest parent trap yet! Legend is Brian Helgeland’s movie about the infamous-in-England Kray twins—a pair of flamboyantly violent cockney gangsters who ruled London’s East End in the early ’60s. Tom Hardy stars as both Reggie, the violent-but-fair leader of the gang (at least in Helgeland’s telling), and as Ronnie, a mad dog […]
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Legend Is the Most Boring Movie Ever About Gangster Twins
Somehow a Movie Starring Two Tom Hardys Ends Up Being Dull
Somehow a movie starring two Tom Hardys ends up being dull.
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Digging for Fire Is Another Joe Swanberg Movie Where Nothing Happens
DIGGING FOR FIRE “Mumble mumble mumble.” “Mumble mumble?” “Mumble mumble!” Joe Swanberg’s Digging for Fire opens with a married couple (Jake Johnson and Rosemarie DeWitt) and their three-year-old walking into what will become the setting for the whole movie. “Is dis owa new house?” the child asks. (I attribute the fact that this kid gets […]
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Digging for Fire Is Another Joe Swanberg Movie Where Nothing Happens
There’s a Ton of Dull White Ennui, Though!
Another mumblecore movie, another keenly observed study of dull white ennui.
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Yes, The Tribe Is a Two-Hour-Plus Movie Told Entirely in Sign Language
THE TRIBE So this school seems fun. My dad was a sign language teacher, and growing up, my parents would speak sign language at the dinner table when they didn’t want me to know what they were talking about. Whereas I saw two people speaking a foreign language, The Tribe director Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy apparently saw […]
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Yes, The Tribe Is a Two-Hour-Plus Movie Told Entirely in Sign Language
The Broad Strokes and Formal Choices of The Tribe
The broad strokes and formal choices of The Tribe.
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Lose Yourself in the Predictability of Southpaw
SOUTHPAW In which One-Eyed Willy gives some sage advice. Does the world really need another movie about a gritty white boxer from the wrong side of the tracks, who gets as good as he gives, whose struggles in the ring mirror his struggles in his personal life? Absolutely not. And yet the sheer, unblinking earnestness […]