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Brilliant cinematography and audio design elevate John M. Chu’s film adaptation of the 2008 stage musical hile it’s no surprise that the golden age of the cinematic musical has passed, it hasn’t stopped the genre from undergoing a slight resurgence this century with prestige films like La La Land (2016), […]
Warner Bros’ latest MonsterVerse movie is here, and if you were looking for cheesy characters and cathartic action, that’s exactly what you’ll get he climactic event of Warner Bros’ “MonsterVerse” is finally here, in a cinematic landscape that is just as unforgiving as the central titans who battle it out. […]
Despite being nominated for best picture at the Oscars, Nomadland runs too slow to entertain and fails to deliver meaningful insight into American poverty s in every year, there is one film that is collectively declared the awards favourite by the cinematic community. From the moment Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland (2020) […]
A vibrant and mournful account of American racial strife in the Swinging ʻ60s he year is 1968. Martin Luther King, Jr. has been assassinated, further fracturing the civil rights movement and leaving multiple coalitions looking for different ways to continue the fight for Black agency. Within this environment, the Black […]
From life-affirming to heartbreaking, here are the greatest cinematic experiences of this past year nprecedented, unrivaled, and troubling: a few words that have been exhausted in our attempt to describe what 2020 meant to us and what it will go down as in our collective history. While these last twelve […]
Christoper Nolan’s Tenet attempts to save the movie theatre industry with stunning IMAX cinematography but fails to offer much else in plot structure, sound design, or character development hristopher Nolan’s highly anticipated spiritual successor to his smash hit Inception (2010) is finally here. It only took three delays from its […]
xperiencing Da 5 Bloods within the purview of a currently protest-ravaged and utterly divided United States is a unique cinematic experience that astounds the senses while simultaneously muddying the political goals of the film. Spike Lee’s tale of four Black veterans returning to Vietnam to recover the remains of […]
.G. Well’s classic story has been transformed into a tale that tears off its famed bandages and goggles to boldly focus on the real-world horrors of abusive relationships and its implications on the women trapped in them. Cecilia (Elizabeth Moss) lives on a massive coastal estate with her genius husband, […]
“Uncut Gems is not only the best film of 2019, but one of the best of the last decade.” ew York City’s milieu within the Diamond District has never been captured with such audacity and authenticity before. This fast-paced and frenetic world is what defines and fuels every scheme, gamble, […]
n the weeks leading up to the film’s release, the notion that the entirety of the film would be one unbroken shot (albeit with hidden edits) created a dialogue around the technical mastery that would be on display. This one-shot intensity, coupled with the fact that legendary director of photography […]
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