The Top 10 Films of 2014 (and the Next 10 Best, Too)
Are YOU one of the top ten films of 2014? If you have character, direction, debatable conclusions, and few or no exploding robot superheroes, chances look good!
Author Archives: Evil Genius
Point and Shoot (and Then Consider Your Aim)
Matt VanDyke thinks he’s telling his story, but his story ends up being about how telling your story is essentially dishonest.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 Section B Article 12 Line π Pixel •
I do not particularly wish to review this film, which I have just seen, while growing increasingly intoxicated. On purpose.
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, So Be Careful
There’s what a film appears to be and what a film is, and seldom the twain shall meet, alone, at night, in Iran, with a vampire.
Big Hero 6: the Best and Worst of Disney
If Disney had let Big Hero 6 go in the direction its characters demanded, it might have been pretty brilliant.
10 Reasons to Watch Viva la Muerte
‘Out of his head’ is a good phrase for Vive la Muerte.
Foxcatcher: Wrestle Your Demons
It starts with vintage footage of a fox hunt, complete with horses and bugles and excited children. These home movies presumably come from the halcyon days of the Philadelphia area DuPont […]
Hell Is For Heroes and Steve McQueen’s Co-stars
Nazi zombies! Run!!!
Interstellar: A Black Hole of Wonder
This film may prematurely age you, through the power of special cinematic relativity.
Force Majeure Is Beyond Your Control
Force Majeure is Gone Girl for grownups. It is probably the film you will most regret not seeing this year.
Halloween Dress-up & Flip-off with Jamie Lee Curtis and Kim Cattrall
The bird is the word. I said the bird bird bird, the bird is the word.
Jake Paltrow’s Young Ones Lands Like Pudding
Paltrow’s script hovers over characters and situations like a teacher’s red pen. “Needs improvement. See me after class.”
John Wick Would Like You to Hold His Bullets with Your Face
If John Wick is trying to teach his enemies a lesson, here is what it is: your face is not a secure receptacle for bullets.
Listen Up Philip Is Successfully Insufferable
And I quote: “Alex Ross Perry has injected a particular strain of vitality into the New York independent film scene, having made two idiosyncratic features that beat to a relentlessly personal rhythm that is almost shocking in its distinctness.”