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Chris Lambert is the co-founder and lead writer of Film Colossus. He specializes in film interpretation, narrative structure, and explaining how movies use story, imagery, and technique to create meaning. His work on Film Colossus has reached millions of readers, with more than 500 articles covering films ranging from Fight Club and Black Swan to Perfect Blue and The Odyssey.
SMILE | Why did I feel personally insulted?
Is it possible for a movie like Smile to be insulting? That’s the question I’ve spent a few days thinking about. I saw the movie. Realized the movie was about trauma. Waited to see what it said about trauma. Then…
Barbarian | The Essential Explanation
What is the point of Barbarian? Barbarian is a three chapter story that explores a particular aspect of the female experience—specifically, what it means to interact with men and the way in which men interact with women. The potential danger…
Three Thousand Years of Longing | The Essential Explanation
The Quick Explanation Three Thousand Years of Longing is about isolation and connection and the way stories serve to bridge the gap between those two things. The stories we tell ourselves, those we share with others, and those we listen…
Us movie explained | This is the best article
The Quick Explanation Narratively, the dynamic between Addy and Red is a tragic one. Addy is an underdog story, rising from the world of the tethered into the upper echelons. It’s heroic in the same way of entrepreneurs who come…
The Giant Explanation of Enemy
The Quick Explanation Enemy is Denis Villeneuve’s Fight Club. Except it’s less explicit than Fight Club. It opts to show more than tell. So you never get the big, definitive reveal that Adam and Anthony are the same person the…
The Predator franchise | Ranked
I’m a pretty big Predator fan. Ever since I was a kid. I may have been the only 7 year old in Ohio with a foot-tall dynamic replica of a Predator. There’s a picture of 4 year old me posing…
Denis Villeneuve movies ranked | Chris Lambert
Ever since I first saw Sicario at the San Sebastián Film Festival, Denis Villeneuve has been one of my favorite filmmakers. So I’m very excited to rank his movies. My favorite thing about Denis is how well he blends high-art…
Nope | The Definitive Explanation
What is Nope about? Nope is essentially Jaws in the sky. The UFO is like a shark. It gets hungry and feeds on what it comes across, whether that’s people or horses or statues of horses. In that sense, Nope…
The Northman | The Essential Explanation
The quick explanation The Northman falls into the “noble revenge” genre and is based on a Scandinavian legend attributed mostly to Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus and his comprehensive history of Denmark called the Gesta Danorum. The original story is historically…
The worst moment of MORBIUS | What happens on the rooftop?
I didn’t see Morbius in theaters because the trailers gave me, and many other people, zero confidence in the film. But I finally watched it. And it was surprisingly mediocre. I had expected Chernobyl. Not the brilliant HBO show Chernobyl.…
Thor: Love and Thunder | Bad Writing
Here’s the heart of the issue with Thor: Love and Thunder—the movie never takes anything seriously. Thor’s existential crisis. Jane Foster’s cancer and death. Asgard’s kidnapped children. Gorr’s god butchering. These are richly charged situations filled with emotional and thematic…
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