Director Steven Soderbergh returns to the cinema of anxiety he explored in 2013’s Side Effects. Here, he wraps a lump of toxic masculinity in a thick layer of mental distress and deep fries it in rancid insurance malfeasance, then matches the whole thing to a relentlessly discomfiting visual aesthetic: garish …
The question remains, with a star-studded cast that includes the likes of Jamie Dornan, Jemima Kirke, Lola Kirke, Julie McCullough, Ben Mendelsohn, Alice Eve, Jennifer Grey, Billy Crystal, Lola Kirke, and Scott Caan, why is this opening on but one screen? Emma Forest (aka Mrs. Ben Mendelsohn) makes her directorial …
Director Ruben Fleischer can’t be blamed for making a movie that tracks so closely with one released just a few weeks earlier (the equally clumsy Predator remake from Shane Black): once again, we have an alien invader who decides, for whatever reason, to aid humanity in thwarting a full-scale invasion …
Director Ruben Fleischer can’t be blamed for making a movie that tracks so closely with one released just a few weeks earlier (the equally clumsy Predator remake from Shane Black): once again, we have an alien invader who decides, for whatever reason, to aid humanity in thwarting a full-scale invasion …
Director Ruben Fleischer can’t be blamed for making a movie that tracks so closely with one released just a few weeks earlier (the equally clumsy Predator remake from Shane Black): once again, we have an alien invader who decides, for whatever reason, to aid humanity in thwarting a full-scale invasion …
Director Ruben Fleischer can’t be blamed for making a movie that tracks so closely with one released just a few weeks earlier (the equally clumsy Predator remake from Shane Black): once again, we have an alien invader who decides, for whatever reason, to aid humanity in thwarting a full-scale invasion …
Where does skit-assembler Adam McKay (SNL, Anchorman) get off receiving name-above-the-title status? The Big Short wasn’t enough to warrant such an elevation, never mind the Oscar noms (and McKay’s win for adapted screenplay), and this throw-everything-against-the-screen-and-see-what-sticks attempt to mimic Oliver Stone is a giant, self-conscious plunge in the wrong direction. …
Susan Sarandon knows how to pick a character; it’s her taste in scripts that we need worry about. In her work as an emergency room nurse, Helen (Sarandon) spends a good portion of her day matter-of-factly breaking bad news to families of hospitalized patients. But when it’s Helen’s turn to …