As a dramatic science fiction parable, the new film "Voyagers" is often quite effective and both dramatically and thematically rewarding.
The Beguiled is as surprising and thought-provoking a film as an exquisitely pruned rose bush flourishing atop a bitter iceberg. It’s elegant. It’s melodramatic. It’s icy, blunt, and deeply silent. But with that, it’s also strangely welcoming. The movie begins three years into the American Civil War, when we are invited into the gates of the sunlit, musty Farnsworth Seminary to spectate as seven w...[Read More]
Having not seen Greek writer/director Yorgos Lanthimos’ critically lauded 2009 film Dogtooth, I legitimately had no expectations going into his latest film. Upon leaving the theater I was glad I knew nothing, because it only enhanced the strange and hypnotic, fever-dream-like viewing experience that was The Lobster. The film is set not so far in the future, where everyone without a partner is forc...[Read More]