It Is in Us All is a moody, oppressive film, brimming with angst and reticence. The story never quite coalesces into a coherent enough narrative to land hard, but it… Continue reading "It Is in Us All (Campbell-Hughes, 2022)"
If I were younger or less secure in my position as a film critic, I would probably spend more time trying to emphasize that I went into The Super Mario… Continue reading "The Super Mario Bros. Movie (Horvath, Jelenic, and Leduc, 2023)"
Devotion is an engaging movie that gives viewers a glimpse into the sensational evolution of American aviation through the eyes of an unlikely hero. The film is an adaptation of… Continue reading "Devotion (Dillard, 2022)"
I tell my students that I am a prose guy, not a poetry guy. So the fact that I enjoy PBS’s weekly lessons about famous American poems should reassure anyone… Continue reading "Poetry in America, Season 3"
You may think you’re cool, but you’ll never be “Timothée Chalamet walking in slow motion along a rocky coast under floating spaceships to a Hans Zimmer score” cool. Dune: Part… Continue reading "Dune (Villeneuve, 2021)"
Paper & Glue is an immensely hopeful film, arriving at a time when I have been feeling particularly hopeless about the state of the world we live in. Political problems,… Continue reading "Paper & Glue (JR, 2021)"
About the time my region went to sheltering in place to flatten the 2020 Covid-19 curve, I decided to try to revisit as many MCU films as I could in… Continue reading "Eternals (Zhao, 2021)"
The Last Duel is a big, new, studio film that is neither franchise, reboot, nor sequel. It comes at a point where everyone, even some of my friends who are… Continue reading "The Last Duel (Scott, 2021)"
Jungle Cruise glides along for about an hour, propelled by the charms of Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt. Their charisma is seemingly without limit, and for just a moment mid-film,… Continue reading "Jungle Cruise (Collet-Serra)"
The words “my” and “mine” are — technically — possessive cases of the pronoun “I.” I say “technically” because the line between ownership and association becomes blurred when one is… Continue reading "God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya (Mitevska, 2021)"
