Well. This is a fascinating mess.

David Lowery blends gothic horror and psychological thriller all wrapped up in the tortured glamor of pop star glitz. Anne Hathaway and Michaela Coel are riveting, but this felt emotionally hollow. I could never get my bearings within the story.

I loved Lowery’s The Green Knight, which had this ethereal quality that was utterly absorbing from beginning to end. While Mother Mary comes close to capturing that feeling, it feels a touch misshapen, especially…

The Drama, like Ari Aster’s Eddington, is quintessential cinema that absolutely speaks to our current culture in such a profound way. An incredibly fantastic, piercing assessment of how people can view compassion as an idea versus a belief. The layers to this are staggering.

The film follows Charlie (Robert Pattinson) and Emma (Zendaya), a couple who are about to get married when a revelation comes out that forces the both of them to reconsider their own relationship and each other.…

One Battle After Another joins the pantheon of movies that have come out in the last few years, similar to Eddington or Civil War, that hold up a mirror for our divisive politics and times.

Funnily enough, all of those aforementioned films are neither an endorsement nor indictment of the people who fight for either side of the political or social spectrum and divide. These are flawed, messy, imperfect people who are either let down or influenced by corrupt systems…