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5 hours ago · Mooney, who made his feature directorial debut with Y2K, seemingly needed more time in the editing room to polish his filmmaking style.As a comedic performer, he excels through subtle and self-deprecating humor that Saturday Night Live fans like myself anticipate when he appears in sketches. In a mainstream feature film, though, some of the ha-ha stoner stuff needs more meat on the bone ...

Jan 6, 2025 · Vague Visages’ Going Viral review contains minor spoilers. Vincent Vittorio’s 2024 movie features Corey Feldman, Shea Pritchard and Aline O’Neill. Check out the VV home page for more film criticism, movie reviews and film essays. While Going Viral visually nails the 1980s era, the narrative ...

Jan 10, 2025 · Dream Team’s visual style and wink-of-the-eye humor will please stoners and the midnight movie crowd. As a whole, however, the messaging is incredibly sloppy. Furthermore, Horn and Kalman underutilize one of France’s best young actresses, Garrel (Google her family history), who should ideally be front and center from beginning to end.Instead, the filmmakers assemble a series of bizarre ...

6 days ago · Dead Before They Wake differentiates itself from most hard-nosed thrillers through its supporting characters. Alex, who openly acknowledges his poor interpersonal skills, communicates with his deaf father via sign language. During the film’s middle section, the protagonist opens up to his female love interest, Gemma (the wonderful Grace Cordell) — a teacher/exotic dancer who desperately ...

Apr 10, 2024 · Film critic Siddhant Adlakha notes in his Civil War review that the film’s genius is largely thanks to a British filmmaker shooting America in the same way Hollywood routinely depicts non-white countries in action movies. No, Garland doesn’t deploy a piss-yellow filter, but by refusing to offer the audience any concessions to better understand the political situation on the ground which ...

Feb 22, 2024 · In this world, Yura is accidentally a reporter. He may have the scientific nous to sift fact from fable, but he lacks the edge to survive. Every time Yura uncovers a new strand of conspiracy between the paper, government and mafia, he loses even more agency and power until he’s eventually drowning. That The Editorial Office takes a sudden turn into ritualistic folk-horror in its final half ...

Jun 4, 2024 · Vague Visages’ Pandemonium review contains minor spoilers.Quarxx’s 2023 movie on Amazon, Apple and Arrow Player features Arben Bajraktaraj, Hugo Dillon and Ophélia Kolb. Check out the VV home page for more film reviews, along with cast/character summaries, streaming guides and complete soundtrack song listings.. Horror fans shouldn’t expect a clean and traditional narrative structure ...

Feb 16, 2024 · Vague Visages’ Air Force One Down review contains minor spoilers.James Bamford’s 2024 movie on Apple features Katherine McNamara, Ian Bohen and Rade Šerbedžija.Check out the VV home page for more film reviews, along with cast/character summaries, streaming guides and complete soundtrack song listings.. There’s plenty to enjoy within Air Force One Down, a standard B-movie that toys with ...

Oct 9, 2023 · Vague Visages’ Monster review contains minor spoilers.Hirokazu Koreeda’s 2023 movie features Sakura Ando, Eita Nagayama and Soya Kurokawa. Check out the VV home page for more film reviews, along with cast/character summaries, streaming guides and complete soundtrack song listings.. Monster, the latest film by prolific Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda, begins with an aftermath.