Tár – Review
“If you’re here, then you already know who she is.” In the first scene of Tár, New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik (playing himself) begins an interview with Lydia Tár, listing her many, many accolades to the crowd–she’s one of the rare recipients of an EGOT, a personal favorite student of Leonard Bernstein, a internationally renowned…
Halloween Ends – Review
If you’re not up on your lore and are confused by the litany of sequels, spin-offs, and reimaginings, Halloween Ends is the conclusion to the most recent sequel/spinoff/reimagining trilogy, and allegedly, the end of the series as a whole (but come on, guys, we know you’ll exhume that corpse the second you think you could…
The Banshees of Inisherin – Review
About a quarter of the way into The Banshees of Inisherin, Colin Farrell’s Pádraic bemoans his sudden loneliness. He’s sweet but simple, with a kind of hangdog sincerity Farrell plays to the hilt, and his best (and really singular) friend, an older fiddler Colm (Brendan Gleeson), has just told Pádraic he doesn’t like him anymore.…
Movies That Are Worse Than “Mad Max: Fury Road” (2015) 