Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Writer-director John Patton Ford creates a clean canvas for the sarcastic and spiteful wrath of Aubrey Plaza, portraying a Jersey girl stuck within the roiling system of capitalism and the American dream, a fruitless struggle to overcome insurmountable obstacles separating her from financial repose. A delicate dance on the line of moral ambiguity, the viewer is given a peek behind the curtain of felon mentality. Gripping, intense, nail-biting excitement marbled with harrowing anxiety are Emily the Criminal's defining features, and is sure to please fans of films such as Uncut Gems or Good Time.
Anya Taylor-Joy delivers her femme fatale fury in this delightful mystery thriller alongside the enigmatic Ralph Fiennes, who plays a sinister chef de cuisine with an almost Lecter-like malevolence. The performances are convincing, the visuals are stunning, even the food looks appetizing -- which fans of all culinary films might find appealing. However, where it exceeds in visual sweetness it unfortunately does not make up for in substance, as many important plot points are shoehorned in for the sake of…
So, this is definitely a very different horror movie than what I and most other people are used to, and I've always been a fan of the "found footage" genre of horror akin to Marble Hornets or the Poughkeepsie Tapes, but this movie takes that concept and reshapes it entirely. I've always been a sucker for lo-fi 90s footage and home movies, old VHS tapes from that era just trigger something emotionally for me so maybe I'm biased in this…
Ever feel like you're being followed?
A24, one of my favorite indie film companies, dropped this creepy feature on us in early 2015 to widespread acclaim and with good reason. Suspenseful and thrilling, there's something for every horror fan here. Great pacing and cinematography. Indie horror isn't dead!