In Good Time, there is only one way to read Connie’s Queens quest: that it’s his unchecked white privilege that causes him to literally hurt every person of color he comes across in the film.
All tagged Indie Films
Movie Review: “Ingrid Goes West,” with Aubrey Plaza, Elizabeth Olsen, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Wyatt Russell, and Billy Magnussen
It’s easier than ever now to manufacture your own identity—and Ingrid Goes West understands how essential destruction is to creation.
Movie Review: “A Ghost Story,” with Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara
The lofty emotional ambitions of A Ghost Story are ultimately impossibly pretentious and frustratingly unclear. And yes, the off-screen crap of alleged sexual harasser Casey Affleckcasts a shadow over the film.
Movie Review: “Landline,” with Jenny Slate, Abby Quinn, John Turturro, Edie Falco, Jay Duplass, and Finn Wittrock
Landline never really clicks together, relying so often on ‘90s-themed backward-gazing that its family drama fails to set itself apart.
Movie Review: “The Little Hours,” with Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, Kate Micucci, Dave Franco, John C. Reilly, and Molly Shannon
Aubrey Plaza may legitimately be an unhinged maniac, and you will love her for it in The Little Hours.
Movie Review: “The Big Sick,” with Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter, Ray Romano, Anupam Kher, and Zenobia Shroff
The Big Sick is a film with an extremely particular religious and cultural point of view but universally honest, poignant things to say about love, and it is a soothing balm for the insanity of our world right now.
Movie Review: “Baby Driver,” with Ansel Elgort, Kevin Spacey, Jamie Foxx, Jon Hamm, Lily James, and Elina Gonzalez
Baby Driver leans into its own narrative with adrenaline and zeal, and you’ll feel it.
Movie Review: “The Book of Henry,” with Jaeden Lieberher, Naomi Watts, Jacob Tremblay, and Dean Norris
The Book of Henry will have its defenders, and I am not one of them. This movie is one confused “What the fuck?” sequence after another.
Movie Review: "Kicks," with Jahking Guillory, Mahershala Ali, and Kofi Siriboe
These are more than simply shoes, they're street-cred currency, and director Justin Tipping and his co-writer Joshua Beirne-Golden explore all the ways urban culture -- masculinity, sexism, childhood, and the drug war -- are tied up together in Kicks.
Pullout Pop Culture Quotes: "Antibirth" edition
Here are some quotes from the body-horror flick Antibirth that I can't get out of my head. Natasha Lyonne is perfect as a party girl who ends up horrifyingly pregnant -- and isn't afraid to bitch about it.
Pullout Pop Culture Quotes: Labor Day Weekend edition
Here are the five things I heard or read this week, from the 2016 VMAs, The Light Between Oceans, Mr. Robot, and more that I can't get out of my head. May they be stuck in yours, too.
Movie Review: "Morris from America," with Markees Christmas, Craig Robinson and Lina Keller
Who is Morris? He's from America -- with all the expectations and baggage that brings for a kid living abroad.