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A cultural artifact, a historical document, and a musical masterpiece, Summer of Soul is truly a documentary we are lucky to get to see. When considering how there is a world where we may never have gotten the chance to lay eyes upon any of the footage of the once in a lifetime musical event, that only makes the experience all the more special to witness it now.
No one’s hyper-online bingo card includes a square for “Almost eighty year old economist talks about a Boss Baby movie with smartass podcasters.” Yet, here we are and I eagerly accepted the chance to write about the lessons of late capitalism we can learn from the second Boss Baby movie, Family Business. And there are some!
A combination of halfhearted attempts to make a transient political statement about the nature of power and lackluster action that never takes hold, The Forever Purge is a fundamentally flawed attempt to reinvent the series.
I wish I could go back in time to stop myself from watching The Tomorrow War. Better yet, I wish I could go back in time to stop the film itself from existing.
A film that, true to its origins, is “full of suspense” while also being remarkably well crafted on all levels, Zola is without a doubt the best film of the summer thus far.
The new documentary LFG (which every sports fan that’s ever been on Twitter understands to mean “let’s fucking go!”) tells the story of USWNT’s fight for equal pay. It’s a well-made film that gives ample screentime to the remarkable Megan Rapinoe (a huge reason why I had been a season ticket holder for her club team OL Reign for many years). For those that followed USWNT’s fight for equal pay prior to 2019, it’s infuriating. At least it was for me.
A film that works better in theory than in execution, False Positive is still an often unsettling examination of the unexpected horrors of what can happen when you’re expecting.
A biopic that chooses to make use of a framing device that removes all engagement and immersion, Lansky is a massive misuse of an interesting story with strong talent.
The latest entry in the globe-spanning multi-billion dollar Fast and Furious Saga is the most hilariously stupid thing I’ve seen by a hundred dozen carlengths. Whether you see this as awesome or awful will almost certainly depend on the expectations that you bring to the racetrack.
A film with an abundance of heart that wears its charm on its sleeve, it is hard to imagine a more joyous horror-comedy than Werewolves Within
