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“Mean Girls (2024")” - Review
If Mean Girls has proven anything, it’s that this is the best version of what a reboot can be. Something familiar, yet new and fresh, standing on its own. Dare I say, Mean Girls stands taller than the original.
“Demon Mineral” - Documentary Film Review
Demon Mineral is an onslaught of harsh reality, a reminder of the haphazard way our planet has been treated and who is bearing the consequences of that treatment.
“How to Have Sex” - Film Review
How to Have Sex is teenage insecurity in all of its manifestations. It is a brutal, magnificent work about the things we don’t talk enough about, and how that silence affects all of us.
"Mad Props" - Film Review
Mad Props is a loving ode to the things that bring us together and spark childlike joy within us.
Sundance '24: "Thelma" - Film Review
Are we still the same person we always were if we allow ourselves to be vulnerable? Thelma wholeheartedly says yes. That we are at our best when we allow ourselves to be emotional, to try and fail, and to get right back on the electric scooter when we fall off.
"The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes" - Film Review
There’s still space in this world for the lessons The Hunger Games can teach us about the way we consume media and news, but The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is not clear enough in its vision to be as impactful as its predecessors.
"All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt" - Film Review
All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is visual proof of the ways history expands and repeats itself, and of how it’s possible to love and cherish memories without living in the past.
"Eileen" - Film Review
Eileen is a psychological thriller that proves to be all smoke and mirrors.
"Butcher's Crossing" - Film Review
Butcher’s Crossing is a distillation of the myth of the American Dream, a critique that still holds true today.
“Billion Dollar Babies: The True Story of the Cabbage Patch Kids” - Documentary Film Review
Billion Dollar Babies: The True Story of the Cabbage Patch Kids is not particularly innovative in terms of documentary storytelling, but that doesn’t affect the easygoing nature of the film.
“Poor Things” - Film Review
Poor Things wears its strange, scientifically reanimated heart proudly beating on its sleeve.
“The Color Purple (2023)” - Film Review
The Color Purple is an essential story, one that has not yet received the motion picture treatment it deserves.
“O Pioneer” - Documentary Film Review
More than its famous natural resources or its stereotypes, O Pioneer stands as a beacon for the reality of West Virginia and the people who live there. A humble but proud call to the pioneer in all of us.
"Wonka" - Film Review
Wonka should have the maximalism of the Wachowski Sisters’ Speed Racer. Few movies have the freedom to go absolutely off the wall. Wonka is one of them, but you wouldn’t realize that in this execution.
"Saltburn" - Film Review
Saltburn is not quite the Hitchcockian psychological thriller the trailer built it up to be, but that doesn’t mean it’s not without its own merits. Saltburn is an ugly, shallow, and immaculate tale of obsession.
"Ferrari" - Film Review
Michael Mann’s Ferrari takes the audience into Enzo’s world as every aspect of his life is teetering on the edge of collapse.
"Fallen Leaves" - Film Review
Fallen Leaves shows the work it takes to change, the stumbles along the way, and the beauty of earnestness. It reminds us that no matter how old we grow or how bleak our surroundings, we must not forget to hope.
"The Iron Claw" - Film Review
The Iron Claw is an American epic by way of a Greek tragedy. It’s a reminder of the power of family, and how that power can be both lifesaving and life-ending.
"All of Us Strangers" - Film Review
In the best way, All of Us Strangers is devastating. The sort of simple-on-paper film that packs an absolute emotional wallop, a true gift of a film.
"May December" - Netflix Film Review
While there’s nothing outright graphic or gruesome happening on screen, May December is unbearable. The false sense of breeziness is actually stiflingly heavy.