Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin are terrifically paired as an anxiety bundle and his charismatic chaos monster cousin.
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Hugh Grant serves up heebies and jeebies, along with a blueberry pie, in Heretic
It’s like Psycho with Mormons. That should be the tagline.
Clint Eastwood spins a thrilling legal yarn with Juror #2
The premise for Clint Eastwood’s latest is admittedly delicious: what if a juror in a murder trial might be the real killer?
Mikey Madison soars as Anora
Sean Baker launches a rocketship of delirious romance that can’t possibly last when a private dancer lands the ultimate girlfriend experience with a fun young Russian oligrarch’s heir.
Papal potboiler Conclave lets Ralph Fiennes Cook
The Holy Throne of Saint Peter is vacant. Edward Berger churns a satisfying political potboiler in the Vatican as the titular conclave of Cardinals sequester themselves to select its next occupant. No one wants to admit they want the job, everyone has an agenda, and secrets hide in the dark corners of each man’s heart.
Smile 2 serves up a Popstar Horror Picture Show
Smile 2 (2024 | USA | 127 minutes | Parker Finn) On a superficial level, Smile 2, writer/director Parker Finn’s sequel to …
Live from your favorite local cinema, it’s Saturday Night
Jason Reitman’s hyperkinetic dive into the unbelievable 90 minutes of chaos before the first ever episode of Saturday Night Live is hardly a study in extreme competence, but it’s a hell of a ride.
Joker: Folie à Deux sends in the (sad, sociopathic, murderous) clowns
The old adage that the original is always better than the sequel certainly applies here. It wouldn’t be hyperbole to say that Joker: Folie à Deux is the most unpleasant experience I’ve had in a movie theater since SIFF decided to screen the (almost literally) nauseating The Greasy Strangler for press and passholders.
In The Outrun a stellar Saoirse Ronan searches for recovery, grace, and little birds
There’s nothing quite like a sobriety memoir to put an actor through their paces and Saoirse Ronan goes on a full marathon as an alcoholic searching for recovery, grace, and little birds in the harsh windswept beauty of the outer Orkney Islands
Megalopolis still has me scratching my head
Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver) is a genius inventor who discovered/created a new element he dubbed Megalon. This material is incredibly durable, easily manipulated and can do any number of things in any number of ways to create stuff we need across many aspects of our lives (ie the load-bearing structure of a building or material for a dress, it can apparently run the gamut). Cesar considers this new compound the answer to many of mankind’s problems including homelessness and war. Ever the optimist, he wants to create a utopia, Megalopolis, with Megalon as its backbone both literally and metaphorically.