Only Living Pickpocket: Lift and Seal
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York is deeply sad. Why don’t more movies try to do this? We tend to expect other things...
Musk Is in the Air
Spare a thought for Alex Gibney. The Oscar-winning documentarian probably thought he had the year’s best documentary on lock with Musk, a 235-minute exposé...
Carrie: There Will Be Blood
This fall marks exactly 50 years since Brian de Palma’s film of Carrie hit theaters. The movie followed Stephen King’s novel fairly quickly, and while the...
Clayface: Mysterious Skin
I’ll admit I wasn’t expecting very much going into Clayface. I probably should have known better, since I’ve praised director James Watkins before and...
You Can See Everything: All Access
I’ve been watching documentaries for a while now. Some of them have featured the likes of genocidal dictators, Nazi concentration camp guards, and pedophile...
Action Driller
When I go into a movie by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, I know I’m going to hate myself. In terms of pure talent, he’s on...
History of Concrete: Around the Block
The irony is, there already has been a documentary about concrete. Victor Kossakovsky’s Architecton came out last year, and it was pretty good. However,...
Verity: Faking It
In my review of The Housemaid last winter, I said that trashy novels can sometimes make entertaining movies. Verity is a much poorer example...
Forgotten Island: Pinay Power
Perhaps you’re Filipino and you watched KPop Demon Hunters while wondering why Hollywood couldn’t make an animated movie that brings your underrepresented culture to...
Primetime: An Actor Prepares
I think I have it now. Robert Pattinson wasn’t made to play heroes, even though he gets cast that way because of how he...
