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REVIEW | Vox Lux (2018)

John Roebuck / 9:37 / 14.02.19

Not every film needs to have something to say. Sometimes a film can just be interesting. Vox Lux does not pertain to this notion.

Derek Armstrong / 20:13 / 05.02.19

Nadine Labaki's Capharnaum is a movie where whatever can go wrong, will, which makes it a lot like life. The title itself means “chaos."

John Roebuck / 9:19 / 22.01.19

The documentary Free Solo is a more thoughtful film than it initially appears. It may not have answers, but it has suggestions.

John Roebuck / 12:06 / 19.01.19

Glass is absolutely not Shyamalan's worst film, though it is another telling indication that he may never come close again to his best.

Derek Armstrong / 10:27 / 16.01.19

Movies like Peter Farrelly's Green Book are a useful reminder of the distance toward true equality that still remains to be travelled.

Hernando Cathedral / 9:22 / 15.01.19

You laughed, you cried. Maybe. We don't know that for sure. What we DO know are our opinions of the films that were released in 2018.

John Roebuck / 7:35 / 10.01.19

Josie Rourke's Mary Queen of Scots certainly had a great deal more awkward cunnilingus than we were expecting, which was none.

Derek Armstrong / 9:56 / 08.01.19

Mary Poppins Returns gains some distinction from the ways it hearkens back to musicals of old, quite successfully in many instances.

Derek Armstrong / 16:16 / 07.01.19

It may be problematic that Yorgos Lanthimos’ most misanthropic film, The Favourite, is the one that studies the inner workings of the female mind.