Brock Heasley’s The Shift is a remarkably incoherent farrago of sci-fi tropes and Christian proselytizing.
Category: Movie Review
Review: The Boy and the Heron
The Boy and the Heron is a flawed, yet magical semi-autobiographical tale that spins gold out of our collective dreams and nightmares.
Review: The Nomi Song
This movie should be seen by anyone who’s interested in club history, AIDS history, East Village New York nightlife, goth shit, industrial music, David Bowie, aliens, disco, opera, or the triumphs and loneliness of being a beautifully singular weirdo.
Review: May December
May December is a slow burn—a film that, like an intensifying flame, becomes more scorching every second you grasp it, ultimately leaving you with searing imprints.
Review: Fallen Leaves
Like Aki Kaurismäki’s other films, Fallen Leaves is brimming with subtle whimsy and piercing humor, but throughout the 81-minute runtime, he never sells it.
Review: Dream Scenario
Dream Scenario is truly something special, a playful and clever (but not too clever) comedy from Norwegian film director Kristoffer Borgli.
Review: The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
At long last, Suzanne Collins’s massively popular YA dystopian book series is returning to the big screen.
Review: Common Ground
Common Ground uses the “spread the message” approach to advocate for regenerative agriculture.
Review: The Killer
Despite a measured performance from Fassbender and a clear vision/understanding of world-building in Fincher’s approach to visual storytelling, The Killer lacks any kind of teeth.
Review: The Marvels
While the titular Marvels make for an endearing, women-centric found family, the film’s hyperawareness of its role in a larger universe is its downfall.
Review: Reporting for Christmas
Easy targets for cheap shots are plentiful, but honestly, this is fine. It’s inoffensive Christmas movie shenanigans, and it’s breezy at 80 minutes.
Review: Rustin
George C. Wolfe’s Rustin leans firmly toward optimism. That’s understandable; this is the first film centering Bayard Rustin, a key civil rights organizer whose influence on the movement has been downplayed in part because of his homosexuality.
Review: Fingernails
The film is successful because it manages to create its own logical, nonsensical rules, which love then snaps.
Review: Priscilla
Based on Priscilla Presley’s memoir, Elvis and Me, Priscilla isolates a portion of the Elvis mythology, reframing it from the perspective of his wife.
Review: The Holdovers
The Holdovers blends feel-good and sorrowful themes thoughtfully to make a rewatchable flick. But the next watch will likely be over the holidays.