Hour of The Amateur
About half an hour into The Amateur, Charlie Heller (Rami Malek) is lurking inside a Parisian apartment building where a terrorist (Barbara Probst) lives....
Luckiest Man: No Pressure
The odd historical drama The Luckiest Man in America takes place on the TV game show Press Your Luck. The original version of that...
Minecraft Movie: Blockheads
What’s become clear in the last decade or so is that any intellectual property can become a great movie if it’s treated with enough...
Death of a Unicorn: Poke My Heart
Last summer’s Cuckoo was the only horror movie that had scientists breeding human-cuckoo hybrids to enact large-scale mind-control, and Death of a Unicorn also...
Odds and Ends
Once again, this past year yielded some movies of interest that I didn’t get to write about, mostly because they didn’t play in Tarrant...
Snow White: First Light I See Tonight
Let’s get my least favorite part of this review out of the way and run down all the controversies that have dogged the live-action...
Black Bag: Spies in the House of Love
Steven Soderbergh came up as a young Turk in the late 1980s, exploding Hollywood narrative conventions and exploring new layers of metafiction in sex,...
Novocaine: Comfortably Numb
Jack Quaid is having himself a season. The son of Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan made his film debut back in 2012, being shot...
Mickey 17: I Think We’re a Clone Now
Read the fine print. That seems to be the message of this season’s movies. The villain of Companion trips himself up because he fails...
My Dead Friend Zoe: She’s Not There
If this job has taught me one thing, it’s that filmmakers can make funny movies out of even really grim subjects. America’s wars in...
