Reviews

Kill the Jockey

If the mobsters he owes money don’t kill Remo first, the drugs he steals from his horse ought to do the trick.

Issue
47
Sorry, Baby

“Something really bad happened to me” is as specific as Agnes tends to be when asked about it.

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46
Materialists

You don’t think of yourself as a Dakota Johnson person until you watch her in a movie like Materialists and realize you are very much a Dakota Johnson person.

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45
The Life of Chuck

It isn’t until The Life of Chuck’s second chapter that we actually meet its title character, by which point the world (or at least a world) might have already ended.

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44
The Phoenician Scheme

It’s hard not to think of Royal Tenenbaum the first time you meet Zsa-zsa Korda.

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43
Bring Her Back

A chalk barrier encircles the secluded home, though it’s unclear whether it’s meant to keep something in or out.

Issue
42
Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning

Tom Cruise needs us to trust him one last time.

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41
Sister Midnight

“How come you get to be so still and calm?” Sister Midnight’s troubled heroine asks the moon on a particularly bad night.

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40
Friendship

Is the cure to male loneliness watching Friendship?

Issue
39
April

To say that a movie is in any way reminiscent of Erasherhead is both high praise and a warning.

Issue
38
Blue Sun Palace

“This restaurant is small,” one of Blue Sun Palace’s two leads says in the opening scene, “but the food is quite delicious.”

Issue
37
The Ugly Stepsister

Reframing fairytales from a forgotten character’s perspective isn’t exactly a novel concept anymore, but folklore wouldn’t be folklore if we didn’t keep returning to it.

Issue
36