American Animals
By Kyle Mustain June 7, 2018
Based on a real-life incident, young upper-middle-class men turn to crime as a cure for boredom, and now they are the subject of a film that is anything but boring.
Based on a real-life incident, young upper-middle-class men turn to crime as a cure for boredom, and now they are the subject of a film that is anything but boring.
Everything about Gemini is cool, from its steely blue, neon color palette to the jazzy-noir-synth-pop soundtrack.
Casablanca stands in for Cairo—and makes a compelling star. The story takes place in the days leading up to the Arab Spring in January 2011, and the city throbs with discontent.
A worthy heir to the gritty 1970s New York films of Martin Scorsese. What Mean Streets and Taxi Driver did for 1970s Manhattan, Good Time does for Queens of the 2010s.
A tightly wound gem of a movie that wastes none of its brisk 80 minutes.
A fleabag of a crime movie and pure, unadulterated, hard-R-don’t-give-a-damn Paul Schrader.
A powerful film that alternates between biting humor and shocking violence, all against a backdrop of vast frigid landscapes.
This neonoir will not surprise you. That’s not a criticism. In fact, that very predictability is central to the film’s success.
The murder of Kitty Genovese is one of the most famous cases in the history of sociology and criminology, and this documentary accomplishes something remarkable by making us reconsider a story, and a concept, that we’ve long taken for granted as true.