Category: One Thing I Like

There’s one scene in Sinners that seems to be played for a laugh, but it’s packed with meaning that ripples throughout the entire movie. Long post with lots of spoilers.

Drop places itself in the long history of high-concept suspense thrillers, then makes a reasonably convincing argument that it belongs there

The experience of watching Ryan Coogler’s Sinners in IMAX is why cinema exists in the first place

Lake Mungo is a fictional documentary about ghost sightings that’s most horrifying for what it implies

The most remarkable thing about Paddington 2 might be its casting

The first Paddington is a perfect example of the difference between a family comedy and a kids’ movie

Death of a Unicorn reminded me of the 1980s, in that it’s the kind of movie they hardly ever make anymore

Robert Eggers’s Nosferatu strips away all the subtlety and subtext from vampire stories, and then adds a little back. Spoilers.

Black Bag is a simultaneously 21st-century and old-fashioned spy movie that’s all about trust

Opus undercuts its own messages about fame by casting a bunch of really talented people

An entirely unacademic take on Mario Bava’s classic gothic horror

The science fiction comedy about an expendable space colonist and his clones feels like a smarter and subtler movie is running just below the surface.