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…

It's easy to mistake Megalopolis for a Shakespearean drama about American politics. While the political fable is there, the film's true tension is between older generations standing in the way of the next generation's attempt at progress.

Synecdoche, New York is a daunting movie that's actually quite simple. Actually, it's so simple that if I summarized it here, you wouldn't need to check out the article. But I'll tell you anyways: It's about not wasting time, in life and art.

What is Transformers One about? Transformers One introduces the idea of “staying on protocol” as a challenge to viewers. It’s that message that you’re more than meets the eye. You have potential. But it’s easy to get swept up by…

What is Vanilla Sky about? For those who want a quick answer—Vanilla Sky is pretty straightforward. Everything that Tech Support says in the final scene is true. Tom Cruise is having a lucid dream. He did die (sort of) and…