Freaky: Kill Switch
Three years ago, Christopher Landon’s Happy Death Day found some great laughs by applying the conceit of Groundhog Day to a slasher film. Now,...
Ammonite: Museum Piece
I hate making the same comparison as every other film critic, but sometimes two movies bear so many similarities that ignoring it only makes...
Kindred: Baby Brains
The success of Get Out pretty much guaranteed that we’d get a movie like Kindred. After all, one place scarier to a Black person...
Let Him Go: Badlanders
Many classic Westerns were really just thrillers in disguise. You can still find some of those, but recently filmmakers have used the genre as...
Come Play: With a Friend Like Larry
It’s logical that horror movies would introduce disabled characters into the genre. Who’s even more vulnerable than that iconic final girl in the slasher...
Synchronic: Orangutang Fucking Crazy
You may not know the names of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. I’ve been tracking this filmmaking team for a while now. I liked...
Kid Detective: The Hardy Man
The Kid Detective is set in a place that’s familiar from other children’s movies, one of those quaint, picturesque small towns where the streets...
On the Rocks: Daddy Issues
Like Woody Allen, Sofia Coppola is a filmmaker who has come in for criticism for the at-times aggressive whiteness of her characters, even if...
Yellow Rose: Broken Axle
A few years ago, I wrote about the AMC Grapevine Mills starting to show Filipino films. Since then, I’ve been regularly disheartened by the...
Possessor: Some Bodies
I’m trying to avoid the clichés endemic to film critics when I’m talking about Andrea Riseborough, but it isn’t easy resisting the temptation to...
