After waiting impatiently since 2021 — it’s finally here! Somehow, it managed to exceed my unfairly high expectations. Future generations will wonder what it would have been like to be alive when the masterpiece Dune: Part Two was first released (for anyone who might read this in 2074: it was glorious).

Boasting staggering visual effects, a gorgeous score by Hans Zimmer, orgasmic sound design, and one of the greatest contemporary casts ever assembled, this is a triumphant spectacle to behold. Sweepingly…

11 out of 10

“If a lot of people love each other, the world would be a better place to live.”

When you consider the number of films that have been produced in the last one hundred years, very few of them have staying power. Many films seen as superior to The Room fell quickly into obscurity. Is it possible that it goes deeper than just being “so bad that it’s good”? Could it actually be a masterful study of…

The stakes have never been higher… in this franchise, or just about anything this side of a superhero film. 

Perhaps as a way of setting that dark and foreboding mood, much of the film is dimly lit, with an aggressive amount of shadows (I know, “We live and die in the shadows…” and all that). There are also lots of (maybe too many) close up shots, bringing a feeling of claustrophobia. 

I’ve become accustomed to the amazing locations in the…

It’s a risky thing to hype a movie up to such tremendous levels… one would hope that a check wasn’t written that couldn’t be cashed. When Longlegs was mentioned in the same sentence as Silence of the Lambs in early reviews (and a few others such as Se7en), well, it’s about as bold a comparison as can be made. It’s also rather unfair to the movie in question; now the audience will be holding it to a ridiculously high standard.…

Instead of adapting the bestselling nonfiction book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents” into a documentary, Ava DuVernay made the vastly inferior decision to fictionalize a narrative of the authors life as she researches for her book… and the result is a pandering, didactic, and emotionally manipulative slog. Origin is filled with totally tasteless dramatizations (bordering on maddening) of scenes such as a lynching and the death of Trayvon Martin at the hands of George Zimmerman. Besides interrupting the narrative flow,…