Featuring one of the most stereotypically dramatic piano-based scores you will ever hear, adapted by Marcelo Zarvos from Michael Legrand's score for 1971's The Go-Between, May December plays out like a very wink-at-the-camera erotic thriller that would play on Lifetime or some other cable channel. Natalie Portman is quite good in the film playing Elizabeth Berry as a somewhat obsessive method actor, who seems blissfully unaware of the pot she is stirring, as she prepares to exploit Gracie's life for…

In the weeks leading to the release of The Marvels, Variety released a cover story suggesting that the Marvel Cinematic Universe, which has been releasing films for fifteen years, is currently in crisis mode from a combination of franchise fatigue and inconvenient legal troubles. This is on top of the often misogynistic fanboy response that female-lead MCU films, such as Captain Marvel, Black Widow, and the She-Hulk Disney+ series, have already been receiving.

For better or worse, the MCU film…

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes avoids falling into the trap of other film prequels by taking place at a time long before the majority of the original protagonists were even alive, allowing this film to stand on its own. That said, the film does give Coriolanus Snow the Anakin Skywalker treatment but has him start off as a sympathetic protagonist before he starts going on the dark path that leads to the coldhearted man he is…

It is stated at one point in Anatomy of a Fall that the goal of a trial is to find the truth. However, in actuality, the jury would only have to find the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. It is this reasonable doubt that plays a significant role in the story of Anatomy of a Fall, as more is revealed about the tumultuous state of Sandra's relationship with her husband.

In the back-and-forth arguments of the film's trial scenes,…

The pseudoscience behind the love compatibility test in Fingernails is based on the hypothesis that heart symptoms first manifest themselves in the fingernails. However, despite involving the very violent act of forcibly removing couples' fingernails with a pair of pliers, the actual test itself seems not all that different from conventional computer matchmaking, giving results of either 0%, 50%, or 100% compatibility. However, it is stated by Luke Wilson's Love Institute head, Duncan, that the test results are being taken…