Materialists

"It's like they say: you're not ugly, you just don't have money."

The Phoenician Scheme

"I supposed I'm moved by this absurd performance."

Dangerous Animals

Every shark movie lives in the shadow of Jaws. While not the first, it had an immediate and lasting impact on movie culture and the industry. For one, it spawned a bunch of imitators, most of which failed to make any impression, much less a comparable one. Even once that

Ballerina

The kind of movie which plays a song called "Fight Like a Girl" by Evanescence over the end credits.

Sister Midnight

"Oh sure, I'm a domestic goddess."

Bring Her Back

Sally Hawkins going immediately from another Paul King film to an unhinged horror movie is perfection.

Friendship

"I can see the future. And it's full of pals helping pals."

Steppenwolf

"Is there any need for good? It's unnecessary."

Final Destination Bloodlines

As a staple of the aughts, it’s fitting that the last entry in the Final Destination horror franchise came fourteen years ago. It’s a series of mid-budget horror films with almost no recurring characters spawned from a rejected spec script for The X Files, squarely situating it in

Hurry Up Tomorrow

From his very first feature, director Trey Edward Shults has excelled in filmmaking as visual art. Krisha, a movie tiny in both scope and scale, was filmed with such vivacity that you couldn't help but get sucked into the protagonist's headspace as she attempted to reinsert

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

"This is your destiny. A destiny which touches the lives of every living thing."

Rosario

The decline of the movie star has been well-documented. For the uninitiated, the idea is that audiences historically showed up to a movie on the strength of its lead actors, but that’s not generally true anymore. Currently, the ones who can draw a crowd are mostly over forty, indicating