"That's the sound of snow … falling."
Prequels are always a tricky proposition, maybe even trickier than remakes. Ideally you end up with something genuinely interesting like the recent Planet of the Apes trilogy, or at least a wildly entertaining movie such as Rogue One. On the other end of the spectrum you get corrosive dreck that actively undermines key elements of the original film like Prometheus and Alien: Covenant.
The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes belongs in the former category.…
Killers of the Flower Moon is a difficult film. Martin Scorsese is acutely aware of the problematic approach his latest motion picture takes, a fact that he acknowledges by way of an inspired epilogue. In an ideal world this story would've been told from a Native American point of view by a Native American filmmaker. In our world that simply doesn't happen. Once Leonardo DiCaprio decided he'd rather play the pathetic Ernest Burkhart instead of the federal investigator and the…
I'd rather watch The Menu again. Its simplistic social commentary is just as blunt, but at least it's entertaining and has the decency not to take two and a half fucking hours to make its obvious point.
Napoleon is what happens when you make a four hour movie and then cut it down to two and a half hours. It's Kingdom of Heaven all over again. Writing about such a truncated cut feels futile and a waste of time when we already know the complete film will be released in a couple of weeks, so I'll try keeping it short.
Ridley Scott is one of my favorite directors, so there was no way I was going to…
➡️ Movies I Should Write About Again Because My Previous Reviews No Longer Reflect My Opinion ⚠️
Well, that wasn't very good.
Dune collapses under its gargantuan ambition. Denis Villeneuve builds a world so stupendously large in every frame, and yet he spectacularly fails at creating space for his characters to exist in. There isn't a single character that has more to offer than mere surface level traits. Without proper introduction it feels like we are thrown right into an…
