For Vulture, I reviewed THE PLATFORM 2, which brings some new political ideas to its CUBE-like sci-fi setting, but desperately wants for a better story. www.vulture.com/article/netf...
At what point does a great premise start to feel a little picked over? There’s definitely a leftover quality to The Platform 2.
A JOKER musical is actually a pretty fun idea. Pity they didn't really commit to the bit. My full review of FOLIE A DEUX: www.digitaltrends.com/movies/joker...
In Joker: Folie à Deux, Joaquin Phoenix reprises the role of a misfit wallflower killer in a genre-bending sequel too cautious to really go for it.
For Vulture, I reviewed REZ BALL, a nice sports drama that pits a culturally specific story against a bunch of post-HOOSIERS cliché: www.vulture.com/article/rez-...
Co-written by Reservation Dogs’s Sterlin Harjo, this Netflix drama could have strayed a little further from the inspirational sports-pap playbook.
Even at 2.5 hours of certifiable, quantifiable insanity, MEGALOPOLIS still feels more a grand *idea* for a movie than the realization of it — like Coppola has only half-dreamt this utopian vision in his head. My full, very mixed review: www.digitaltrends.com/movies/megal...
From the director of The Godfather comes Megalopolis, a sci-fi epic 40 years in the making that trips on its own ambitions.
ED WOOD turns 30 this week. It remains a lovely, luminous comedy about an all-time hack with the soul of an artist — and a nice chaser after the antic, misbegotten "fun" of Tim Burton's latest. www.digitaltrends.com/movies/ed-wo...
With Beetlejuice Beetlejuice now in theaters, let's revisit one of director Tim Burton's best movies, which turns 30 this week.
I wrote about AD ASTRA at 5. "Fun" fact: The film, featuring Brad Pitt as a SpaceCom officer, world premiered the same day Trump announced the revival of SpaceCom. www.digitaltrends.com/movies/ad-as...
Brad Pitt's attempt to reap Gravity's fortunes stalled at the box office. Five years later, it still stands as one of the best modern sci-fi movies.
I'm hugely pro on THE SUBSTANCE, a nightmare satire as impolite and surface-obsessed as the industry it savages. Truly astonishing effects work in the grand tradition of Baker/Bottin/Screaming Mad George. My full review: www.digitaltrends.com/movies/the-s...
Demi Moore plays an aging actress who falls into a mutating nightmare in the superbly disgusting satire The Substance.
Today is one of the final times you can play FRIDAY THE 13TH on Friday the 13th; the game goes dark at the end of the year. For Vulture, I wrote some eulogistic words about this janky multiplayer favorite. www.vulture.com/article/frid...
I’m not ready to say good-bye to the gloriously janky Friday the 13th game.
Jeremy Saulnier's crackerjack REBEL RIDGE uses the framework of an intense thriller to take aim at the outrageous injustice of civil asset forfeiture. It's pretty terrific. My full review: www.ign.com/articles/reb...
Green Room director Jeremy Saulnier returns with a terrific Netflix thriller
He's pretty good. The guy rarely phones (zooms?) in it.