There’s one pretty major issue with the end of A24’s Zola: it just isn’t an ending. It’s simply a spot where the movie chose to stop. It’s one of the biggest missteps I see in narrative. Let me explain. Zola…

There is controversy around the Netflix documentary about the death of 21-year-old Elisa Lam at the Cecil Hotel in Los Angeles back in 2013. It mainly centers on the inclusion of "web sleuths" and YouTubers

I went into Wonder Woman 1984 with higher hopes than a DC movie probably deserves. The one consistent thing about the DC universe has been the Inconsistent quality. They haven’t really had a start-to-finish home run. “Chris, what about [insert…

I recently wrote about the end of Primal Fear and how the point of its story isn’t the murder-mystery-thriller plot but the deconstruction of its main character. Martin Vail (Richard Gere) goes from someone who desires attention to someone who…

Since Captain Marvel came out, Goose the Cat has been a huge topic of conversation. It makes sense. For one, it’s a cat. For two, the feline has major screen time in a highly anticipated Marvel movie. For three, Goose is…

In the case of Miles Morales in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, he didn’t choose to have a radioactive spider bite him and grant him superpowers just in time for a potentially multiverse ending event. Just a normal, confused teenager, Miles was swept into…

Every cinephile has those collection of moments that change everything, that convince them of a filmmaker’s prowess. I’ve had a few: the frogs falling in Magnolia; a mystical tiger perched in a tree, staring at Keng in Tropical Malady; that…

After two hours of meandering, disconnected people—both citizens of the present-day Thailand and souls of the distant past—wandering the streets and schools and hospitals of Khon Kaen, Cemetery of Splendour dedicates one of its final shots to a humdrum aerobics…

This is a guest post by our friend Taylor Hawkins. In professional wrestling, there is something called the “Dusty Finish,” which is named after the late, great Dusty Rhodes. The Dusty Finish is when a match ends due to wonky…

If Lights Out and The Babadook were siblings, then Babadook is the artistic one that’s caught up in Kubrick and Virginia Woolf and Schrodinger and going to museums, while Lights Out is smart but would rather be popular and social…

So most of us are doing this thing where we fall in love with Creed and then freak out about it and gush about it. It’s pretty cool and fun. Definitely one of my favorite things about 2015 movies. One…