Allegory of the Man Cave
The audience can’t help but stare and laugh and squirm as Craig grapples with the loneliness threatening to tear his life apart.
The film doesn’t treat male loneliness as either pathology or punchline. It just lets it exist, raw and unresolved. Maybe that’s the point.
An Unhinged Upheval
Sinners is director Ryan Coogler at his most unhinged—and perhaps his most inspired.
Imagine The Social Network’s twin-tech trickery meets Inglourious Basterds with a pinch of Get Out, and you’re somewhere in the ballpark of Sinners.
To Forgo Truffaut
Warfare is not a film in the conventional sense.
There are barely any characters to speak of, no arcs, and no anchors. We’re embedded with a SEAL squad on deployment, but these men are not introduced or developed. They are silhouettes, pulses, steady gazes, and trembling fingers on triggers.
Does Could Imply Should?
Not even the broad shoulders of Jack Black as Steve could carry this picture to success.
Ultimately, the creators of this picture were so absorbed with whether or not they could, they forgot to ask whether or not they should.
The Wealth of Unicorns
In the world of finance, a unicorn is something to be caught, dissected, and monetized.
In Death of a Unicorn, Alex Scharfman takes this premise to a grotesquely literal conclusion.
Seduction by Contradiction
To call Opus a critique of celebrity culture is to reduce it.
It does not merely criticize. It embodies, extends, and ultimately deranges the phenomenon.