Movies like “The Little Things” feel like a vanishing breed. In the wake of the success of “The Silence of the Lambs,” there seemed to be a dark, brooding thriller adaptation every week with titles like “Kiss the Girls” and “The Bone Collector,” and it felt like half of them ...
John Lee Hancock’sThe Little Thingsblends two modes of the serial killer film, both of which have been shepherded by David Fincher. In the first, trendy in the mid-to-late 1990s in the wake of Jonathan Demme’sThe Silence of the Lambsand especially Fincher’sSe7en, movie stars chase en...
My journey to the hostel on the beach in Sausalito was meant purely to be a fun night out at a special event with a colleague when she made the comment, "You're reviewing this movie tonight, aren't you?" The thought had never occurred to me. Why would a bona fide clinical ethicist...
For a movie about a stock market anomaly, “Dumb Money” is almost too concerned with appealing to a younger generation. From the hip-hop needle drops to the countless TikTok references, it aims to catch Gen-Z’s notoriously short attention span and redirect to something actually useful: stoc...
much like most of the film itself. To be fair, the second half of the movie does find more of a groove balancing horror and these aforementioned character dynamics, but it still doesn’t amount to anything engaging as a whole.The Little Strangeris far from terrible (on a technical and pe...
I think this movie has great significance. I recommend this movie to my friends and family. We all like it very much, and we also discussed some of the problems. All in all, it has benefited us a lot. Whether it's the pe...
and how there are other things to be afraid of then bringing them into the world. From the juvenile humor to the varied musical numbers to its handling of key characters,Little Monstersis winningly charming. Just don’t expect an outstanding zombie movie, but do expect an outstanding film wit...
E12. I love how the swoon is teased from the little things, like the look in Ung’s or Yeon Su’s eyes, in response to something the other has said, or the small shifts in expression that we see, when either of them is bashfully doing an internal squee, at something that’s just...
d only seen his movie once in a theater, and he was afraid to go again. When he saw it with an audience, he said, he thought it was a flop because there was no pattern to the laughs. People were laughing as individuals, almost uneasily, as specific things in the movie touched or ...
Ethical Movie Review essays "Become an employee of this firm, you will make your first million within three years." These words were spoken by one of the main characters in the movie Boiler Room. This man was ecstatic because of all of the wealth that