including a postwoman who snorts little balls of bread, and an unhappy husband that dresses like a chicken to destroy an effigy he created of the woman he truly loves (just to name a few). It’s undeniably absurd, and will make even the most adventurous filmgoers feel...
broader plot about escapism and obsession, following two teenagers — terrifically played by Justice Smith and Brigette Lundy-Paine — who develop such a fixation with their favorite “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” style TV show that it begins to feel more real than their bleak small town lives. ...
For it's exactly in that hedonistic fever dream, and later in that tense scramble to stop everything from falling apart, where Ani's self-empowerment is in direct conflict with those greater forces of marginalization, that we learn a lot about who she really is: her strengths and weaknesses...
Stories of the power of coming together as a selfless team, and myths of individual strength when you remove all the limits. Sports movies make us cheer, laugh, cry, and scream. They even make us think about renewing that gym membership. We’re going all the way to the end zone with...
Critics Consensus: A deeply felt coming of age tale that gleans insightful societal commentary from its intimate details, Girls Will Be Girls announces writer-director Shuchi Talati as a talent to watch. Synopsis: In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, 16-year-old Mira discovers...
Okay so obviously this entire franchise that literally defined a decade of sexy movies is chock full of sultry sex scenes, but this erotic ice cream moment from the third installment is def top five, IMO. 73. Love & Other Drugs Everett ...
From theJohn Wickuniverse comes this nightmarish neo-noir starringAna de Armasas ruthless ballerina-assassin Eve Macarro, who embarks on a revenge-fueled odyssey through New York’s criminal underworld to find her father’s killer. The film is a neon-lit fever dream, where explosive action ...
Utterly nerve-racking from start to finish, the film feels more like a fever dream than any sort of realistic experience, and with a film about the Devil warping the minds of the innocent, this feeling is only amplified in terror as audiences begin to feel that he has ahold of them the...
Described by Wong as “Shakespeare meets Sergio Leone in Chinese,”“Ashes of Time” (and the cleaned up “Ashes of Time Redux,” which is essentially the same movie) feels like a recurring fever dream that suffocates all logic in an effort to reach the things that might float to the su...
Personally, I thought it almost felt like a modern retelling of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, or at least; it felt like it captured the spirit of that novel in which you have this central character that has committed a wrong even though they tell themselves there's nothing to feel rem...