The Happytime Murders
By Paul Weissman August 23, 2018
A clever pastiche of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Lethal Weapon,, and Basic Instinct, with a dash of neo-noir thrown in.
A clever pastiche of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Lethal Weapon,, and Basic Instinct, with a dash of neo-noir thrown in.
A playful—maybe to the point of self-indulgence—morality tale about the evils of selling out.
Armando Iannucci has moved from farce to the blackest of comedies and succeeds brilliantly.
Hell is other people, and a hell of a lot of wicked fun.
Beware of comrade teacher, though she looks harmless enough with her kewpie-doll perm and brown button eyes. But there’s no confidence she won’t betray, no boundary she’ll respect.
Lian (Chinese megastar Fan Bingbing) is a woman on a mission, but she’s neither Norma Rae nor Mother Courage.
With every shot a saturated, gorgeous explosion of kitsch perfection, this elaborate send-up of 1960s and ’70s occult sexploitation films boils and toils over a bubblin’ cauldron of sheer spectacle.
Director Yorgos Lanthimos’s blackly comic satire—a discombobulating rush of inventiveness and imagination that doesn’t let up.
Director Ben Wheatley adapts J.G. Ballard’s dystopian and predictive novel into a strikingly stylish film, heightening the tone of the book and its excesses.