Delta Slim recounts a gig he played where he intentionally "changed up the rhythm" to throw off the white audience. Shifting, arhythmic changes are a jazz mentality, they are a blues mentality, and in Sinners they are Ryan Coogler's mentality, as well. Churning through genre like a bluesman picks at his guitar, Coogler never lets the film settle into a single distinct set of conventions, instead letting horror, gangster, musical, drama, melodrama, Western, and comedy genres merge together and play…

See, it's asymmetrical but it's also still balanced.

Casey grew up in Columbus, Indiana, desperately cares for her mother, and, because of that, fears leaving behind everything she knows and cares for. Jin lives in Seoul, struggles to find concern for his ailing father, and eagerly anticipates the day he can return home. Youthfully unguarded, yet matured from experience, Casey is mesmerizing to be around, while Jin's stoicism and bluntness suggest an "old man" set in his ways, but all…

Over time, you realize that there's a bad guy and a worse guy. And nothing else.

Trapped in the Void, made to witness traumatic memories on a loop, Yelena Belova runs. Until she hits a wall. A painted backdrop to be more precise, one of two instances in the Void sequence where the manufactured set design of a Marvel film becomes part of the diegesis; the manifestation of memory within the narrative intersecting with a meta acknowledgement of moviemaking.

As…

Among La Pointe Courte's numerous stunning moments of beauty, one scene sees the central, fracturing couple lying in bed, gazing upward. Once the lights are switched off, a rippling cascade of ephemeral moonlight spills across the ceiling. Initially hidden by lamplight, this reflective glow from the moon hitting the canal water outside the bedroom was always there, only revealed by darkness.

Lying at the intersection between La Pointe Courte's duel, intertwined concerns - a faltering marriage and the day-to-day rhythms…

As much as the third Indiana Jones film is about obsessive tendencies (concisely indicated by the hard cut between young and old Indy, both fighting for the Cross of Coronado), it is also about transference of knowledge. That is to say, where the Nazis burn books, Henry Jones shares them with his son. Indy is a testament to the teachings of his father, following in his academic footsteps and displaying a number of the same personality traits; he's been shaped…