as a character and movie. While in the bathtub, Pearl kicks her leg up in the air, as if she is performing for her father. Shortly after that, she asks a devastating question, inquiring out loud if “there is anything left of you in there?” Would Pearl’s father be...
Benj Goehner
InPearl, which was shot back to back withX,Gothreturns to her portrayal of Pearl, but this time she’s a young woman at the turn of the century who yearns for a life in entertainment – an unfulfilled exuberance that undoubtedly led to her murderous ways later in life. I mean, doesn’...
Ready for a night of legendary partying, three college students must weigh the pros and cons of calling the police when faced with an unexpected situation. Kunle (Donald Elise Watkins) is a college med student radiating kindness so extensively that he is naïve, trying to find that same good...
“Pearl” showcased the main character’s descent into madness as she took control of her life in a disturbingly unhinged manner. However, in “MaXXXine,” Maxine is never truly in control, despite West’s attempts to portray her as such. This shift in character dynamic undermines the ...
Robert Altman’s “Nashville,” which was the best American movie since “Bonnie and Clyde,” creates in the relationships of nearly two dozen characters a microcosm of who we were and what we were up to in the 1970s. It’s a film about the losers and the winners, the drifters and th...
s daughter scenario and getting a very different kind of action than they planned for. Mia Goth, in a deftly articulated dual role, plays both an ambitious young porn actress and her elderly host/stalker Pearl — women of different eras gripped by a longing for attention, only one...
in the film’s opening minutes makes it clear that Goth’s future serial killer is already on the brink of total collapse by the timePearlcatches up with her. As a result, the film’s script, which West and Goth co-wrote together, doesn’t take on the same slasher movie structure asX...
One day, she overhears co-workers whispering about their dreams. She has had the same disturbing dream, of a pearl suspended in a void. She is drawn into a circle of these people, who have gathered around a young black boy who has the gift of prophecy, and informs them that the world...
Set with a post-apocalyptic landscape where pig-based superhumans and normies are war with each other, “Bullets of Justice” compiles time travel, Cold War tensions, and crude sexual humor into one hell of a movie.The story starts with “Army Bacon” — the Nazi “Ubermensch” dream ...