Category: Reviews
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Review: Infinity Pool
By Christian DiMartino Director Brandon Cronenberg is the son of David Cronenberg, a master of the audacious, bizarre, and disturbing (The Fly, Crash, Naked Lunch). Brandon also made Possessor back in 2020, which was a grisly, unnerving experience. Alexander Skarsgard is an actor who I’m now convinced will do anything, no matter what the strange […]
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Review: The Son
By Christian DiMartino Sheesh. Florian Zeller’s The Father was not only the best movie of 2020, but it’s among my favorites of the decade so far. The film, an upsetting and dizzying, yet moving depiction of dementia, earned Anthony Hopkins an Oscar, as well as Zeller and his co-writer Christopher Hampton for Adapted Screenplay. Zeller […]
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Review: The Whale
By Christian DiMartino By now you’ve probably heard about the acclaim that Brendan Fraser has been receiving for Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale. The film premiered at the Venice Film Festival, where he received quite the ovation, shooting him to the front of the Best Actor Oscar race. I like him a lot, and always have, […]
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Review: Empire of Light
By Christian DiMartino Sam Mendes’ Empire of Light is a curious experience. The movie begins well, features splendid performances, is beautifully filmed by Roger Deakins, is immaculately scored by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Everything appears to be in its right place, but ultimately it doesn’t hang together as a movie. It’s like looking at […]
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Review: White Noise
By Christian DiMartino Noah Baumbach’s White Noise is a movie I thoroughly enjoyed, and I’m well aware that you may not. It’s certainly an acquired taste- from beginning to end, Baumbach takes you on a very strange, disorienting journey that I truly couldn’t predict, and it poses many questions and doesn’t present many answers. It’s […]
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Review: Avatar: The Way of Water
By Christian DiMartino Allow myself to quote myself, in my initial review of James Cameron’s Avatar from earlier this year: “Like, yeah, there’s flaws, but… f**k’em, look at what Cameron did here.” Yeaaaaaaaah, that’s pretty much where I stand with Avatar: The Way of Water. I revisited Avatar back in September and it was every […]
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Review: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
By Christian DiMartino Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery is one of more purely enjoyable films of the year so far; a film with a bit on its mind, but mostly, it just wants to deliver upon a good time. In this case, it’s kind of a great time. The film had a […]
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Review: Bones and All
By Christian DiMartino Say, can you guys do me a favor? Can you get off your asses and go to the f**king movies?! Thanks. Well that’s the thing: people flocked to see Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, which delivered the good time Marvel usually promises. But it’s left smaller, more original movies in the dust. This […]
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Review: Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
By Christian DiMartino Remember how I mentioned the other day that a lot of filmmakers are getting personal lately? From Kenneth Branagh to Steven Spielberg to Alfonso Cuaron, it seems like they all want to put themselves out there for the world to see. Now comes Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, the […]
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Review: Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio
By Christian DiMartino We have gotten three Pinocchio adaptations over the course of two years. Why? I don’t know, I guess some filmmakers just want to take a stab at it. One was a live-action, Italian version released in 2020; the technical aspects were pretty remarkable, but the movie was nightmare fuel. The second Pinocchio […]
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