Category: Film

The real story is interesting enough without what seems like unnecessary sensationalism.

Aside from one effectively tense sequence set in a New York City bodega, there’s a weariness to this entry that it tries to make up for by being in love with itself.

A Winnie the Pooh horror film just seemed like it had the potential to be more pointedly cruel. Instead, we got a weirdly anonymous ursine rather than the best bloody bear in the world.

At first glance, Jesus Revolution is an inspiring, heartwarming watch, but it gives a seamlessly joyful look at a movement with a harmful past, in a way that feels like a slap in the face in the year of our Lord 2023.

The supposed premise of this film—that it’s inspired by the discovery of wet-plate photographs taken by a Danish priest in the late 19th century, as stated in a title card toward the beginning—is itself fictional, a prompt used by Icelandic writer-director Hlynur Pálmason to flesh out the larger narrative.

A smuggler dumps duffle bags full of cocaine into a forest before plunging to his death, and a 150-pound bear gets into the drug packets and dies. Great plot for a comedy, right?