The Greatest Showman: Hokum
It's been quite a ride for Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, hasn't it? Just 13 months ago, you'd have needed to be a pretty...
Shape of Water: God and Monster
You know that Guillermo Del Toro is Mexican, and his latest cinematic fairy tale The Shape of Water is set in America, but watching...
Star Wars: Last Luke
I’ve been a Rian Johnson fan ever since I saw his wildly original debut film Brick. I was legitimately excited to hear he was...
Disaster Artist: Tommy Boy
Good news, everyone: We found the role that James Franco was born to play. It is the part of Tommy Wiseau, the mysterious, eccentric...
Three Billboards: Justice Delayed
It did feel like Martin McDonagh had a great movie in him. The Irish playwright has been widely acclaimed in the theater world, but...
Lady Bird: So Long, Sacramento
The first time I was blown away by Saoirse Ronan, it wasn't by her performance in Atonement, which earned her her first Oscar nomination...
Coco: Música en Muerto
The question that has shadowed animation fans for decades has been, “Why doesn’t Pixar do a musical?” This became especially true after Pixar acquired...
Justice League: Come Together
By now, you've probably heard that in the comic-book world, it was DC Comics who first got the idea to put their superheroes together...
Orient Express: Strangers on a Train
Kenneth Branagh’s new version of Murder on the Orient Express feels curiously old-fashioned. Not because it’s set in 1934, but because Branagh is taking...
Wonderstruck: Bolt From the Blue
Six years ago, Martin Scorsese adapted Brian Selznick's illustrated novel The Invention of Hugo Cabret into an Oscar-nominated movie called Hugo. Now, the comparably...
