Review: Replicas

Replicas’s slippery grasp of just how much of its main character’s research is scientifically possible defines much of the narrative.

Review: Peppermint

Peppermint, Pierre Morel’s first feature film set in the United States, is brainless propaganda for the MAGA market.

Review: Blackhat

Michael Mann’s camera elegantly collapses the spaces between bodies and objects without sacrificing spatial coherence.

Review: The Drop

With its optimistic ending, the film muddies its previous statements regarding the danger of unthinkingly hanging on to totems of the past.

Review: Silver Linings Playbook

The pieces brought into play here, of course, are enormously seductive, and it’s not hard to see why so many have been taken in by the film’s wide-eyed charm.