The Little Things: An Old-School Whodunit
It toys reasonably effectively with the expectations set by all those predecessors.
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Promising Young Woman’s Fantastical ‘Me Too’ Vigilantism
Its caricature of sexual relations is so calculated, that you can’t really be all that frightened by the spirit that it represents.
Farewell to a Non-Visionary Filmmaker
Michael Apted had the discipline not to impose liberal ideology on his films.
Hillbilly Elegy: Ron Howard’s Inverted Mayberry
Americana for our age: Booze, opioids, and ignorance. But Glenn Close, at least, sails past the white-trash clichés.
Highly Recommended: What Killed Michael Brown?
One consistent throughout the history of this country, says Steele, is that various forces and factions “only use race as a means to power.”
James Bond, in Literature & Cinema: A Retrospective
There has never been a Bond film that wasn’t at least moderately popular. What is it they say about 007? Nobody does it better.
Sofia Coppola’s Movie On the Rocks: Too Little Mess
Bill Murray dominates this cinema of privilege.
How Heavily Edited Is the Giuliani Borat Scene?
A new analysis suggests the key moment was artificially prolonged.
Borat Make No Funny in MovieFilm Second
Comedy make fun usually mean “punching up” but punching down more fun when you’re Borat-ing.
Whole Lotta Sorkin Goin’ On
Zippy, smart, fun . . . but smarmy, cutesy and fake. Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 makes the case for and against its creator.