T o be successful, every movie requires at least some suspension of disbelief. And for the most part, audiences are willing to oblige such a big ask--up to a point. …
T wister takes the heart and soul of a rickety B-movie and builds the body of a big, lavish blockbuster around it. Think about it: You've got Jan de Bont…
E dgar Wright's Baby Driver takes a page from Quentin Tarantino and elevates its soundtrack to a full-on supporting character. Ansel Elgort's Baby suffers from tinnitus and medicates himself with an iPod…
T he Natural takes all the mythologies and superstitions that have attached themselves to baseball and bundles them into one infectiously silly package. For this story, the game takes on…
M ake no mistake: Independence Day is one of those movies that should have a high resistance to criticism. After all, it's junk-food entertainment of the first order--blustery, big-budget silliness. …
M ore than any coming-of-age movie, Stand by Me is filled with a slow, billowing sense of dread. Characters frequently find themselves on the run from some approaching doom, where it comes in…
T he Way Way Back takes an exhausted subgenre, the Coming of Age dramedy, and supercharges it with a high-powered cast and a well-crafted screenplay. This film may not say anything…
A merican Fiction is pulled in so many different directions by conflicting emotions and competing genres, it's a wonder that satisfying story emerges at all. Most prominently, we have a…
W hen I was ten years old, my mother forbade me to watch Blazing Saddles. Naturally, when my parents ventured from the house, that VHS tape went straight into the…
H oly hell, it's finally happened: I've warmed up to the Dune franchise. It hasn't been an easy road, dear readers. After all, David Lynch's '84 version was the cinematic equivalent…
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