Anora is a different kind of coming of age story. It's about waking up from the American dream in order to s

Saturday Night is less a story and more a moment captured in time. And even though it’s about the first episode of Saturday Night Live, it feels representative of the show as a whole. As if Jason Reitman wanted to…

Smile 2 reminds people that celebrities often have people who support them as products but not as people

The end of Possession can leave you at a complete loss, asking yourself, “What did I just watch?” But don’t give up hope! Possession provides inroads that give us the context necessary to piece together what’s going on. I’m excited…

The ending of Terrifier 3 is brutal. Like…really brutal. Seemingly, Sienna is left with nothing. So it’s easy to think of the ending as a complete downer, as a pessimistic look at how life is unwinnable. But, and I know…

We Live in Time is a sad one, huh? For nearly two hours, it uses every trick in the book to make us care about Almut and Tobias. Not just as a couple but as individuals. We root for them,…

The Silence of the Lambs is, for the most part, a pretty straightforward movie. But it does have two bits of subtext I think are pretty cool. The first has to do with time. And the second with the male…

The Others is from this post-Sixth Sense and Fight Club era where psychological thrillers with twists were at a premium. From 2000-2008, before the new Superhero Era really kicked off, you had an avalanche of twist-based films. Donnie Darko, Memento,…

Like most movie adaptations of books, Sam Esmail made a few major changes to Rumaan Alam’s novel. These can be relatively minor, for example, in the novel, Ruth is George’s wife. In the movie, Ruth’s George’s daughter. You can make…

The end of Joker: Folie á Deux really begins following the assault by the guards and the death of Arthur’s fellow inmate and friend, Ricky. The assault itself is a full circle moment, as we find out in the original…

Barry Lyndon’s themes, ending, meaning, real-life application, and more Inferiority  When trying to figure out a movie’s theme, the first thing I usually do is look at the very beginning. Many writers like to crystallize the story’s point in an…