Photo: Kane Skennar/Netflix During the pivotal scene in which Apex reveals itself to be not a meditative outdoor adventure in which Sasha, played by Charlize Theron, grieves her late boyfriend but a thriller in which she is hunted to the death, Taron Egerton’s Ben muses about what’s behind their shared love of extreme activities. Some…
Photo: Courtesy of Roadside Attractions Some movies are so eager to entertain that they refuse to let themselves be any one thing; they just keep changing shape. David Mackenzie’s Fuze kicks off in comically rapid-fire fashion, with brief, interrupted shots of various characters discovering … well, something. And its clipped cadence never really pauses after…
A parent’s love is supposed to be boundless and unconditional, but you have to snicker the first time that Charlie Cannon (Jack Reynor) and his wife, Larissa (Laia Costa), are reunited with their daughter after a nightmarish eight-year absence. Katie is a mischievous little girl played by Emily Mitchell when she disappears mysteriously from the…
Photo: Magnolia Pictures/Everett Collection So Bob Odenkirk is really determined to see this thing through, huh? Fresh off last year’s Nobody 2, his sequel to the modest 2021 dadsploitation hit Nobody, he’s back with another middle-age kill-fest in Normal, named after the sleepy midwestern town that the movie will soon turn into a semi-ironic slaughter…
Photo: Universal/Everett Collection Watching You, Me & Tuscany, I felt a little like the robot boy David at the end of Steven Spielberg’s A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001). In the final scenes of that movie, David, unfrozen and brought back to “life” by a futuristic race of all-powerful AI thousands of years after humanity’s extinction, asks…
Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel play artists at different ends of the celebrity spectrum in The Christophers, a sly new dramedy from director Steven Soderbergh and writer Ed Solomon. What unites the two main characters is that neither is showing new work anymore or, in the case of Julian Sklar (McKellen), making it at all….
Photo: Neon/Everett Collection Exit 8 may be based on a video game, but it feels at least equally guided by the ear-popping pressures caused by a declining birth rate. Before it ever gets to its main action, which involves an infinitely looping set of tile-lined hallways in the depths of the Tokyo metro, director Genki…
Earlier in his career, the Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa alternated between documentaries and narrative features. The documentaries tended to be distanced, austere, observational; those that focused on the past (such as 2005’s Blockade, about the WWII siege of Leningrad, or 2019’s State Funeral, about the funeral of Stalin) were often built entirely from archival footage….
Perhaps one day there will be a Colleen Hoover adaptation that doesn’t feel like a social experiment on its audience, but not yet. Reminders of Him is the latest of the BookTok phenom’s novels to get adapted, and it’s the most bloodless, sexless, impactless yet. What are these movies whe… More » Source: Read Full…
Undertone is a low-budget Canadian horror film that does a lot with a little. Photo: Dustin Rabin/A24 As someone who has podcasted in the past and has begun podcasting yet again in the present, I have a few quibbles about the setup of the show at the center of the new horror movie Undertone. Like,…
