The Menu’s Savage Skewering of Elite Restaurant Culture
I will give the finale this: Before it made me horrified and queasy, it did make me briefly desperate for a cheeseburger.
The Bleak Blarney of The Banshees of Inisherin
You could call McDonagh’s Inisherin a corrective, I suppose, to the American fantasy of twinkling eyes and leprechauns and rainbows.
Ticket to Paradise: A Strange Fantasy for Boomer Parents
If you’re lucky you will laugh three times in the course of 104 minutes; if not, you might smile a little once.
Vesper’s Beautiful Brave New Landscape
Vesper is a small, imperfect movie, but its world is rich and strange indeed.
Confess, Fletch Doesn’t Know What It’s Satirizing
The movie slashes in multiple directions, but with a deliberately blunted tip.
The Strange Orientalism of Three Thousand Years of Longing
The motion picture is one of the stranger movies of this year — strange in its storytelling and strange in its very existence.
Emily the Criminal Is the Agent of Her Own Destruction
The movie is a political and moral Rorschach test that gradually resolves itself into a meditation on the lure of sin.
Bullet Train’s Satisfying Spectacle
Bullet Train is a summer action movie that isn’t bloated or heavy on world-building pretension, a spectacle that knows its own limitations.
Nope: Jordan Peele’s Overstuffed Horror-Western
Whatever its problems, Nope achieves at least one clear success.
