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If you are reading this review and you haven't seen Us, go and see Us. Consider this my full endorsement that this will almost certainly be one of the best movies of the year and you will not want to miss it.
With Get Out and Us, Jordan Peele has proven an uncanny talent for crafting simple and elegant metaphors from which to examine systemic inequity. Get Out is a clear and focused treatise on race in America, examining the…
Captive State is a sci-fi thriller set in post-alien invasion Chicago following an ensemble of characters dealing with the authoritarian rule imposed by the alien Legislators after a complete and unconditional surrender by humanity ten years previous.
Gabriel Drummond (Ashton Saunders) is seeking a way to escape the city for a life of isolation but freedom from Legislator rule in the wake of his brother Rafe's (Jonathan Majors) death during a botched anti-Legislator terror attack that resulted in a Chicago…
John Michael McDonagh's sophomore feature is every bit as violent and bleak as the title implies, but it is also as beautiful. Calvary dissects the relationship between the Catholic church and the people of Ireland. Father James is an Irish Catholic priest who receives a death threat during confession. Despite this, Father James continues to visit and care for the people of his parish in a compelling meditation on death, sex, morality, and religion. The film proceeds as a reverse…
The films of Wes Anderson have been called many things: quirky, eccentric, weird, artsy, and any number of other adjectives that attempt to pin down his distinct visual style. Whatever label you decided to put on Anderson's filmography, it's hard to argue against how meticulously each film is constructed, individual worlds with their own sense of personality and internal logic, perhaps none more so than The Grand Budapest Hotel. It is a movie of constructs that makes no attempts to…
