Tag: a24
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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: Causeway
By Christian DiMartino Jennifer Lawrence needed a movie like Causeway. I’ve had investment in her from the start of her career, which was really in small scale indie movies. She nabbed her first Oscar nomination for Winter’s Bone when she was just 20, and then what happened next was a massive boom. Despite starring in…
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Feelin’ Spooky: Hereditary (2018)
Ari Aster’s Hereditary is a truly disturbing, scary, and haunting movie. This was his first movie, and he followed it a year later with Midsommar, which was also great but somehow wackier. You can at least find something darkly funny at the root of Midsommar. Hereditary, on the other hand, ain’t no laughing matter. It’s…
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Review: Bodies Bodies Bodies
My sister Brittany passed away on Tuesday, and I won’t lie, it’s been really difficult to find the motivation to do anything, besides drink and cry. I am doing a bit better now, or at least, I’m doing as well as I can. I’m just really trying to regain some of my normalcy. So I…
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Review: Marcel the Shell With Shoes On
From the studio that brought you Hereditary, Midsommar, The Witch, First Reformed, The Lighthouse, Spring Breakers, Red Rocket, The Killing of a Sacred Deer, High Life, Lamb, Tusk, Climax, Room, Green Room, Men, and It Comes at Night comes… a delightful and charming little movie called Marcel the Shell With Shoes On. That’s right, A24,…
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Review: X
Now, this is what I’m talkin’ about. Ti West’s X is the kind of movie I want to see. Mind you, there is stuff in it so gross that, well, I could’ve done without seeing it. Yet the movie is a deranged hoot from start to finish that reminds me of why going to the…
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Review: Lamb
Boy, the Cannes Film Festival must’ve been a weird one this year. The festival opened with Annette, which featured Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard as a couple who have a daughter with a beautiful singing voice… and she’s a marionette puppet. The top prize went to Titane, which I have yet to see, but revolves…
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Review: The Green Knight
David Lowery’s The Green Knight is a sensational, gorgeous fever-dream of a movie; the work of a bold, creative visionary that only comes around every once in a blue (or, we can say “green” for this case)moon. Here is a film that not everyone will respond to, yet it’s the kind of work that I…
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Review: False Positive
A24 and Hulu’s False Positive sure is a fitting title for a movie as unsuccessful yet interesting as False Positive. Here is a film that works, but doesn’t. It entertains, yet it frustrates. It sticks in the memory, and yet we’ve seen it all before. It’s a movie with its own identity, and yet watching…
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