Review: I, Daniel Blake
Bureaucracies make great villains. Faceless and absurd, they operate in such nefarious ways and are perfect machines for dehumanization. Bureaucracies are reliably inefficient, ...
Tag: Drama
Reviews
Review: Elle
Elle has been billed as a rape-comedy, but that’s a misnomer. It’s a comedy in the classical sense given the events of the ...
Reviews
Review: Toni Erdmann
There’s no way Toni Erdmann could ever live up to its hype. Reviews from Cannes and the Toronto International Film Festival touted the ...
Reviews
NYFF Review: Neruda
[This review is part of Flixist’s coverage of the 54th New York Film Festival, which runs from September 30th to ...
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Review: Manchester by the Sea
Watching Manchester by the Sea, I was reminded of two lines from the musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch: “I cry, because I ...
Review: Sully
It’s a tricky thing about the story of Captain Chesley Sullenberger. The true story of the man who landed an airplane in the ...
Lexi Alexander will direct Crossface, a biopic on infamous WWE wrestler Chris Benoit
Back in late 2011 we mentioned that a Chris Benoit biopic was in the works called Crossface. Benoit, as you may recall, was ...
See Sully early and free
Tom Hanks in a based-on-actual-events movie? Yea, I’m there. Putting him into the role of hero pilot Captain “Sully” Sullenberger who landed a damn ...
Trailers
Paul Verhoeven is back with Elle starring Isabelle Huppert, watch the trailer
Though Showgirls eventually achieved camp/cult status, it was a major strike against Paul Verhoeven’s career. He couldn’t find steady footing in Hollywood afterwards, ...
Trailers
First Hidden Figures trailer brings the women of NASA forward
If you were watching the Olympics last night you got a chance to see the first trailer for Hidden Figures, a movie about ...
Review: Hard Sell
I want to say nice things about this film. That’s the feeling I’m left with as I’m watching it. I believe I understand ...
Golden Globes to prevent dramas from competing as comedies
The Golden Globes were an unfunny joke this year, anchored by its comparatively unfunny Best Comedy, The Martian. The film’s win, paired with ...