The Lost Leonardo
Andreas Koefoed’s The Lost Leonardo (2021) frames the mysteries and scandals surrounding the Salvator Mundi like a true crime documentary. It’s a slick film with a pointed messaging. Koefoed answers… Read more »
Tag: 2020s
Candyman
Jordan Peele’s production of Nia DaCosta’s Candyman (2021) renews the themes of Bernard Rose’s original film from 1992 while also proposing that folklore and trauma, intrinsically linked, are both equal… Read more »
Respect
Respect (2021) is a typical biographical drama. It distills a fraction of Aretha Franklin’s life into a series of melodramatic beats that get little or no exploration. Any transcendency to… Read more »
CODA
CODA (2021) tells the story of a hearing girl, Ruby (Emilia Jones), and her relationship with her deaf family of fisherman when she decides in her senior year of high… Read more »
Annette
Leos Carax returns to the cinema with his most ambitious project yet. Annette (2021) is a rock opera by Ron and Russell Mael (the band Sparks for those few who… Read more »
The Green Knight
David Lowery’s The Green Knight (2021) attempts to locate a 21st century version of morality in adapting the Arthurian poem. Consent, honor and selflessness prevail in Lowery’s version surprisingly well… Read more »
The Sparks Brothers
Early on in Edgar Wright’s documentary The Sparks Brothers (2021) someone says something like “Sparks is a band whose wikipedia article you could read and still know nothing about them”…. Read more »
Black Widow
Black Widow (2021) arrived a decade too late. After so many stops and goes Scarlett Johansson finally gets her solo superhero outing after Disney has killed off her character within… Read more »
The Tomorrow War
In 2051 the human race dies at the hands of hostile aliens even after recruiting more soldiers from the past of 2022. One of those soldiers, Dan Forester (Chris Pratt),… Read more »
Werewolves Within
Mishna Wolff adapts the video game Werewolves Within keenly, using the mafia-style format of the game as a means of examining and satirizing the cultural divides within our nation. She… Read more »
