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A Quiet Place Part II. “mostly about its homegrown characters learning to ‘man up.'”. Wrath of Man. “juvenile stuff that gets unnecessarily dark.”. About Endlessness. “a somber, almost defeated work.”. Godzilla vs. Kong. “It was the headbutt that hooked me.”. LATEST REVIEWS.IN THE HEIGHTS
1 day ago · “We had to assert our dignity in small ways.” That’s Abuela Claudio (Olga Merediz), the neighborhood matriarch of In the Heights, talking about the immigrant experience in America.The movie, an adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s pre-Hamilton stage musical, asserts dignity in BIG ways.Directed by Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians) and featuring choreography by Christopher Scott, In the HOLLER | LARSEN ON FILM Both Dickensian and dystopian, Holler nevertheless takes place in contemporary, Trump-era Ohio. Ruth (Jessica Barden), a sharp high-schooler under the guardianship of her older brother (Gus Halper), talks her way into an illegal scrap operation when the two of them face eviction from their home. NEWS-FROM-HOME-REVIEW “pulses with Petzold’s unique combination of mystery and intelligence.” All Light, Everywhere (2021). Documentary Rated NR MOONLIGHT | LARSEN ON FILM Running from bullies one day, he finds an ironic protector in the neighborhood drug dealer, named Juan (Mahershala Ali). It’s Juan who helps Little come to terms with what he himself is barely beginning to understand: that he’s being targeted by the others because he is gay. Juan is a fascinating figure, brought to riveting life by Ali. 3 WOMEN | LARSEN ON FILM 3 Women. With 3 Women, Robert Altman demythologizes Bergman, in the same way he demythologized the Western (McCabe & Mrs. Miller), the film noir (The Long Goodbye), and other genres. Shelly Duvall and Sissy Spacek play coworkers and eventual roommates—both named Mildred, but known as Millie and Pinky, respectively—who get caughtup in a low
MCCABE & MRS. MILLER Drop a stronger, louder woman into their midst, and they’re done. Directed by Robert Altman, McCabe & Mrs. Miller begins with a man who is seemingly in control. John McCabe (Warren Beatty, offering a sly self critique) arrives on the outskirts of the Pacific Northwest town of Presbyterian Church, circa 1902. Before entering the lone bar/hotel CRUELLA | LARSEN ON FILM Cruella. An aggressive, assaultive attempt to engender empathy for the would-be puppy killer in 1961’s animated One Hundred and One Dalmatians, the live-action Cruella must have known any audience sympathy would be hard-won. How else would you explain the bizarre decision to open the movie with a trio of demonic dalmatians attackingand
CLEO FROM 5 TO 7
An early sequence clearly marks Cleo from 5 to 7 as an artifact of the French New Wave: as Cleo (Corinne Marchand) walks down a staircase, the action is captured in a series of jump cuts that call attention to form in an exciting and then-new way. Yet the movie stands apart from the French New Wave in that it is very much the story of a woman, notabout a woman.
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The Turin Horse. An apocalyptic parable set in an isolated farmhouse, The Turin Horse might befuddle you and it might bore you. But I guarantee you won’t forget some of the images, and more likely than not you’ll be left pondering their potential meaning. The movie chronicles the daily routines of an aging father (Janos Derzsi) andhis
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A Quiet Place Part II. “mostly about its homegrown characters learning to ‘man up.'”. Wrath of Man. “juvenile stuff that gets unnecessarily dark.”. About Endlessness. “a somber, almost defeated work.”. Godzilla vs. Kong. “It was the headbutt that hooked me.”. LATEST REVIEWS.IN THE HEIGHTS
1 day ago · “We had to assert our dignity in small ways.” That’s Abuela Claudio (Olga Merediz), the neighborhood matriarch of In the Heights, talking about the immigrant experience in America.The movie, an adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s pre-Hamilton stage musical, asserts dignity in BIG ways.Directed by Jon M. Chu (Crazy Rich Asians) and featuring choreography by Christopher Scott, In the HOLLER | LARSEN ON FILM Both Dickensian and dystopian, Holler nevertheless takes place in contemporary, Trump-era Ohio. Ruth (Jessica Barden), a sharp high-schooler under the guardianship of her older brother (Gus Halper), talks her way into an illegal scrap operation when the two of them face eviction from their home. NEWS-FROM-HOME-REVIEW “pulses with Petzold’s unique combination of mystery and intelligence.” All Light, Everywhere (2021). Documentary Rated NR MOONLIGHT | LARSEN ON FILM Running from bullies one day, he finds an ironic protector in the neighborhood drug dealer, named Juan (Mahershala Ali). It’s Juan who helps Little come to terms with what he himself is barely beginning to understand: that he’s being targeted by the others because he is gay. Juan is a fascinating figure, brought to riveting life by Ali. 3 WOMEN | LARSEN ON FILM 3 Women. With 3 Women, Robert Altman demythologizes Bergman, in the same way he demythologized the Western (McCabe & Mrs. Miller), the film noir (The Long Goodbye), and other genres. Shelly Duvall and Sissy Spacek play coworkers and eventual roommates—both named Mildred, but known as Millie and Pinky, respectively—who get caughtup in a low
MCCABE & MRS. MILLER Drop a stronger, louder woman into their midst, and they’re done. Directed by Robert Altman, McCabe & Mrs. Miller begins with a man who is seemingly in control. John McCabe (Warren Beatty, offering a sly self critique) arrives on the outskirts of the Pacific Northwest town of Presbyterian Church, circa 1902. Before entering the lone bar/hotel CRUELLA | LARSEN ON FILM Cruella. An aggressive, assaultive attempt to engender empathy for the would-be puppy killer in 1961’s animated One Hundred and One Dalmatians, the live-action Cruella must have known any audience sympathy would be hard-won. How else would you explain the bizarre decision to open the movie with a trio of demonic dalmatians attackingand
CLEO FROM 5 TO 7
An early sequence clearly marks Cleo from 5 to 7 as an artifact of the French New Wave: as Cleo (Corinne Marchand) walks down a staircase, the action is captured in a series of jump cuts that call attention to form in an exciting and then-new way. Yet the movie stands apart from the French New Wave in that it is very much the story of a woman, notabout a woman.
THE TURIN HORSE
The Turin Horse. An apocalyptic parable set in an isolated farmhouse, The Turin Horse might befuddle you and it might bore you. But I guarantee you won’t forget some of the images, and more likely than not you’ll be left pondering their potential meaning. The movie chronicles the daily routines of an aging father (Janos Derzsi) andhis
HOLLER | LARSEN ON FILM Both Dickensian and dystopian, Holler nevertheless takes place in contemporary, Trump-era Ohio. Ruth (Jessica Barden), a sharp high-schooler under the guardianship of her older brother (Gus Halper), talks her way into an illegal scrap operation when the two of them face eviction from their home. CAR WASH | LARSEN ON FILM In its erratic narrative, random assortment of characters, and omnipresent soundtrack, Car Wash captures something perfectly: the rhythms of a working-class work day. Beginning as the ragtag crew of Los Angeles car-wash attendants arrive before opening to change into their orange jumpsuits, rolling along with them through rushes of customers, lunch, and lulls, then concluding with the last SOUL | LARSEN ON FILM Fleeing that fate, Joe meets a young soul named 22 (Tina Fey) who’s resisting her own predetermined destination: as a newborn human. Together, Joe and 22 try to cheat the system, but a mishap sends them both to Earth, where 22’s soul gets stuck in Joe’s body and Joe’s soul gets stuck in a cat. The screenplay deftly navigates allof
FARGO | LARSEN ON FILM Good and evil, crime and punishment, law and grace. With Fargo, the Coen brothers realized that these existential concerns didn’t need to be conveyed via gangster-movie theatrics or haunted-hotel atmospherics.A wintry, mundane stretch of Minnesota highway will do. I don’t mean it as a slight to their previous movies to say that Fargo is where their craft fully matured (after all, I like CRUELLA | LARSEN ON FILM Cruella. An aggressive, assaultive attempt to engender empathy for the would-be puppy killer in 1961’s animated One Hundred and One Dalmatians, the live-action Cruella must have known any audience sympathy would be hard-won. How else would you explain the bizarre decision to open the movie with a trio of demonic dalmatians attackingand
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3 WOMEN | LARSEN ON FILM 3 Women. With 3 Women, Robert Altman demythologizes Bergman, in the same way he demythologized the Western (McCabe & Mrs. Miller), the film noir (The Long Goodbye), and other genres. Shelly Duvall and Sissy Spacek play coworkers and eventual roommates—both named Mildred, but known as Millie and Pinky, respectively—who get caughtup in a low
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Cabin in the Sky is a heavy-handed morality tale (with suspect theology), yet once the performers grab ahold of the music, all that falls by the wayside. Waters and Anderson have a touching duet, the title number, that captures the friction at the heart of their marriage. Anderson also gets a number with Horne, “Life is Full ofConsequence
THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS The film is set during the Algerian War of the 1950s, as France’s occupying forces try to root out a network of militant cells seeking Algerian independence. Very early on, we witness French paratroopers raiding a home in the Muslim quarter of the title city. Hiding behind a false wall are two men, aSOME CAME RUNNING
In a movie full of women trying to keep unwelcome men at bay—Ginnie is pursued by a stalker; Frank’s secretary falls under his extramarital gaze; Dave’s niece spends time with both a booze-pushing boyfriend and a sleazy traveling salesman—Gwen’s situation is the most maddening because she’s portrayed as a willingvictim, expected to
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A Quiet Place Part II. “mostly about its homegrown characters learning to ‘man up.'”. Wrath of Man. “juvenile stuff that gets unnecessarily dark.”. About Endlessness. “a somber, almost defeated work.”. Godzilla vs. Kong. “It was the headbutt that hooked me.”. LATEST REVIEWS. MOONLIGHT | LARSEN ON FILM Running from bullies one day, he finds an ironic protector in the neighborhood drug dealer, named Juan (Mahershala Ali). It’s Juan who helps Little come to terms with what he himself is barely beginning to understand: that he’s being targeted by the others because he is gay. Juan is a fascinating figure, brought to riveting life by Ali. THE NEST | LARSEN ON FILM The Nest is set in the 1980s, and during these moments Coon thrillingly delivers a mash-up of Linda Hamilton’s Terminator toughness and Melanie Griffith’s Working Girl hair. From there things spiral downward, in an extended parallel sequence, for all of the O’Haras. Durkin lends this a touch of horror, as he did inMartha Marcy May
NEWS-FROM-HOME-REVIEW “A deep dive into the life of the mind—or at least the minds of Joel and Ethan Coen.”CABIN IN THE SKY
Cabin in the Sky is a heavy-handed morality tale (with suspect theology), yet once the performers grab ahold of the music, all that falls by the wayside. Waters and Anderson have a touching duet, the title number, that captures the friction at the heart of their marriage. Anderson also gets a number with Horne, “Life is Full ofConsequence
THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS The film is set during the Algerian War of the 1950s, as France’s occupying forces try to root out a network of militant cells seeking Algerian independence. Very early on, we witness French paratroopers raiding a home in the Muslim quarter of the title city. Hiding behind a false wall are two men, a HUNGER | LARSEN ON FILM It’s clear, very early on, we’re not in the hands of a “narrative” filmmaker. Indeed, first-time feature director Steve McQueen comes from an experimental film background, and he brings that formalistic aesthetic to bear on a story that in other, more melodramatic hands could have led to Oscar grandstanding. Hunger details the 1981 prison strikesSOME CAME RUNNING
In a movie full of women trying to keep unwelcome men at bay—Ginnie is pursued by a stalker; Frank’s secretary falls under his extramarital gaze; Dave’s niece spends time with both a booze-pushing boyfriend and a sleazy traveling salesman—Gwen’s situation is the most maddening because she’s portrayed as a willingvictim, expected to
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE Portrait of a Lady on Fire is punctuated by numerous instances of stunning imagery. The title, while a play on Henry James’ The Portrait of a Lady, also comes from a moment in which Marianne and Heloise visit the nearby village and join a gathering of women around a bonfire.Their eyes lock over the flames—the heat of the fire casting a shimmering curtain between them—and they hold eachTHE TURIN HORSE
The Turin Horse. An apocalyptic parable set in an isolated farmhouse, The Turin Horse might befuddle you and it might bore you. But I guarantee you won’t forget some of the images, and more likely than not you’ll be left pondering their potential meaning. The movie chronicles the daily routines of an aging father (Janos Derzsi) andhis
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A Quiet Place Part II. “mostly about its homegrown characters learning to ‘man up.'”. Wrath of Man. “juvenile stuff that gets unnecessarily dark.”. About Endlessness. “a somber, almost defeated work.”. Godzilla vs. Kong. “It was the headbutt that hooked me.”. LATEST REVIEWS. MOONLIGHT | LARSEN ON FILM Running from bullies one day, he finds an ironic protector in the neighborhood drug dealer, named Juan (Mahershala Ali). It’s Juan who helps Little come to terms with what he himself is barely beginning to understand: that he’s being targeted by the others because he is gay. Juan is a fascinating figure, brought to riveting life by Ali. THE NEST | LARSEN ON FILM The Nest is set in the 1980s, and during these moments Coon thrillingly delivers a mash-up of Linda Hamilton’s Terminator toughness and Melanie Griffith’s Working Girl hair. From there things spiral downward, in an extended parallel sequence, for all of the O’Haras. Durkin lends this a touch of horror, as he did inMartha Marcy May
NEWS-FROM-HOME-REVIEW “A deep dive into the life of the mind—or at least the minds of Joel and Ethan Coen.”CABIN IN THE SKY
Cabin in the Sky is a heavy-handed morality tale (with suspect theology), yet once the performers grab ahold of the music, all that falls by the wayside. Waters and Anderson have a touching duet, the title number, that captures the friction at the heart of their marriage. Anderson also gets a number with Horne, “Life is Full ofConsequence
THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS The film is set during the Algerian War of the 1950s, as France’s occupying forces try to root out a network of militant cells seeking Algerian independence. Very early on, we witness French paratroopers raiding a home in the Muslim quarter of the title city. Hiding behind a false wall are two men, a HUNGER | LARSEN ON FILM It’s clear, very early on, we’re not in the hands of a “narrative” filmmaker. Indeed, first-time feature director Steve McQueen comes from an experimental film background, and he brings that formalistic aesthetic to bear on a story that in other, more melodramatic hands could have led to Oscar grandstanding. Hunger details the 1981 prison strikesSOME CAME RUNNING
In a movie full of women trying to keep unwelcome men at bay—Ginnie is pursued by a stalker; Frank’s secretary falls under his extramarital gaze; Dave’s niece spends time with both a booze-pushing boyfriend and a sleazy traveling salesman—Gwen’s situation is the most maddening because she’s portrayed as a willingvictim, expected to
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE Portrait of a Lady on Fire is punctuated by numerous instances of stunning imagery. The title, while a play on Henry James’ The Portrait of a Lady, also comes from a moment in which Marianne and Heloise visit the nearby village and join a gathering of women around a bonfire.Their eyes lock over the flames—the heat of the fire casting a shimmering curtain between them—and they hold eachTHE TURIN HORSE
The Turin Horse. An apocalyptic parable set in an isolated farmhouse, The Turin Horse might befuddle you and it might bore you. But I guarantee you won’t forget some of the images, and more likely than not you’ll be left pondering their potential meaning. The movie chronicles the daily routines of an aging father (Janos Derzsi) andhis
CRUELLA | LARSEN ON FILM Cruella. An aggressive, assaultive attempt to engender empathy for the would-be puppy killer in 1961’s animated One Hundred and One Dalmatians, the live-action Cruella must have known any audience sympathy would be hard-won. How else would you explain the bizarre decision to open the movie with a trio of demonic dalmatians attackingand
SOUL | LARSEN ON FILM Fleeing that fate, Joe meets a young soul named 22 (Tina Fey) who’s resisting her own predetermined destination: as a newborn human. Together, Joe and 22 try to cheat the system, but a mishap sends them both to Earth, where 22’s soul gets stuck in Joe’s body and Joe’s soul gets stuck in a cat. The screenplay deftly navigates allof
FARGO | LARSEN ON FILM Good and evil, crime and punishment, law and grace. With Fargo, the Coen brothers realized that these existential concerns didn’t need to be conveyed via gangster-movie theatrics or haunted-hotel atmospherics.A wintry, mundane stretch of Minnesota highway will do. I don’t mean it as a slight to their previous movies to say that Fargo is where their craft fully matured (after all, I like MCCABE & MRS. MILLER McCabe & Mrs. Miller is less a deromanticized Western than an emasculated one. It’s a de-pantsing, really, of the strong, silent men who have long dominated the genre. Drop a stronger, louder woman into their midst, and they’re done.INTO THE ABYSS
With Into the Abyss, director Werner Herzog is clear about his personal opinion regarding the death penalty.In the film’s opening moments, he asks a pastor, “Why does God allow capital punishment?” Yet his primary interest seems to be in the personal stories of the people who are caught up in the American (specifically, Texan) system of crime and punishment.THE TURIN HORSE
The Turin Horse. An apocalyptic parable set in an isolated farmhouse, The Turin Horse might befuddle you and it might bore you. But I guarantee you won’t forget some of the images, and more likely than not you’ll be left pondering their potential meaning. The movie chronicles the daily routines of an aging father (Janos Derzsi) andhis
KILLER OF SHEEP
Killer of Sheep focuses on Stan (Henry Gayle Sanders), a slaughterhouse worker whose long hours on the job and care to stay on the right side of the law have failed to deliver the American dream. In slice-of-life vignettes that stand in for plot, we see that poverty and desperation pervade his downtrodden community, where kids passtheir days
THE ELEPHANT MAN
There’s a tension to The Elephant Man that only resolves itself occasionally, but when it does the movie is a thing of strange beauty.. You could say that the film’s subject, Joseph Merrick, had a strange beauty of his own. Here called John Merrick and played by John Hurt, the “elephant man” is a tormented soul we first meet at a carnival freak show in Victorian-era London.QUEEN & SLIM
The names of the title characters in Queen & Slim are actually Ernest Hines (Daniel Kaluuya) and Angela Johnson (Jodie Turner-Smith), but it’s fitting that this detail gets lost fairly early on in the film. The movie—in which a couple on a first date is pulled over and harassed by a police officer, leading to an altercation in which Ernest shoots the officer in self-defense—reveals how LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN Letter From an Unknown Woman. For all its modern touches – a frank acknowledgment of sex among them – Letter From an Unknown Woman is a 1948 melodrama whose idea of womanhood seems pulled from an even earlier era. It’s a women’s picture that nonetheless turns on malechauvinism.
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A Quiet Place Part II. “mostly about its homegrown characters learning to ‘man up.'”. Wrath of Man. “juvenile stuff that gets unnecessarily dark.”. About Endlessness. “a somber, almost defeated work.”. Godzilla vs. Kong. “It was the headbutt that hooked me.”. LATEST REVIEWS. MOONLIGHT | LARSEN ON FILM Running from bullies one day, he finds an ironic protector in the neighborhood drug dealer, named Juan (Mahershala Ali). It’s Juan who helps Little come to terms with what he himself is barely beginning to understand: that he’s being targeted by the others because he is gay. Juan is a fascinating figure, brought to riveting life by Ali. THE NEST | LARSEN ON FILM The Nest is set in the 1980s, and during these moments Coon thrillingly delivers a mash-up of Linda Hamilton’s Terminator toughness and Melanie Griffith’s Working Girl hair. From there things spiral downward, in an extended parallel sequence, for all of the O’Haras. Durkin lends this a touch of horror, as he did inMartha Marcy May
NEWS-FROM-HOME-REVIEW “A deep dive into the life of the mind—or at least the minds of Joel and Ethan Coen.”CABIN IN THE SKY
Cabin in the Sky is a heavy-handed morality tale (with suspect theology), yet once the performers grab ahold of the music, all that falls by the wayside. Waters and Anderson have a touching duet, the title number, that captures the friction at the heart of their marriage. Anderson also gets a number with Horne, “Life is Full ofConsequence
THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS The film is set during the Algerian War of the 1950s, as France’s occupying forces try to root out a network of militant cells seeking Algerian independence. Very early on, we witness French paratroopers raiding a home in the Muslim quarter of the title city. Hiding behind a false wall are two men, a HUNGER | LARSEN ON FILM It’s clear, very early on, we’re not in the hands of a “narrative” filmmaker. Indeed, first-time feature director Steve McQueen comes from an experimental film background, and he brings that formalistic aesthetic to bear on a story that in other, more melodramatic hands could have led to Oscar grandstanding. Hunger details the 1981 prison strikesSOME CAME RUNNING
In a movie full of women trying to keep unwelcome men at bay—Ginnie is pursued by a stalker; Frank’s secretary falls under his extramarital gaze; Dave’s niece spends time with both a booze-pushing boyfriend and a sleazy traveling salesman—Gwen’s situation is the most maddening because she’s portrayed as a willingvictim, expected to
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE Portrait of a Lady on Fire is punctuated by numerous instances of stunning imagery. The title, while a play on Henry James’ The Portrait of a Lady, also comes from a moment in which Marianne and Heloise visit the nearby village and join a gathering of women around a bonfire.Their eyes lock over the flames—the heat of the fire casting a shimmering curtain between them—and they hold eachTHE TURIN HORSE
The Turin Horse. An apocalyptic parable set in an isolated farmhouse, The Turin Horse might befuddle you and it might bore you. But I guarantee you won’t forget some of the images, and more likely than not you’ll be left pondering their potential meaning. The movie chronicles the daily routines of an aging father (Janos Derzsi) andhis
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A Quiet Place Part II. “mostly about its homegrown characters learning to ‘man up.'”. Wrath of Man. “juvenile stuff that gets unnecessarily dark.”. About Endlessness. “a somber, almost defeated work.”. Godzilla vs. Kong. “It was the headbutt that hooked me.”. LATEST REVIEWS. MOONLIGHT | LARSEN ON FILM Running from bullies one day, he finds an ironic protector in the neighborhood drug dealer, named Juan (Mahershala Ali). It’s Juan who helps Little come to terms with what he himself is barely beginning to understand: that he’s being targeted by the others because he is gay. Juan is a fascinating figure, brought to riveting life by Ali. THE NEST | LARSEN ON FILM The Nest is set in the 1980s, and during these moments Coon thrillingly delivers a mash-up of Linda Hamilton’s Terminator toughness and Melanie Griffith’s Working Girl hair. From there things spiral downward, in an extended parallel sequence, for all of the O’Haras. Durkin lends this a touch of horror, as he did inMartha Marcy May
NEWS-FROM-HOME-REVIEW “A deep dive into the life of the mind—or at least the minds of Joel and Ethan Coen.”CABIN IN THE SKY
Cabin in the Sky is a heavy-handed morality tale (with suspect theology), yet once the performers grab ahold of the music, all that falls by the wayside. Waters and Anderson have a touching duet, the title number, that captures the friction at the heart of their marriage. Anderson also gets a number with Horne, “Life is Full ofConsequence
THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS The film is set during the Algerian War of the 1950s, as France’s occupying forces try to root out a network of militant cells seeking Algerian independence. Very early on, we witness French paratroopers raiding a home in the Muslim quarter of the title city. Hiding behind a false wall are two men, a HUNGER | LARSEN ON FILM It’s clear, very early on, we’re not in the hands of a “narrative” filmmaker. Indeed, first-time feature director Steve McQueen comes from an experimental film background, and he brings that formalistic aesthetic to bear on a story that in other, more melodramatic hands could have led to Oscar grandstanding. Hunger details the 1981 prison strikesSOME CAME RUNNING
In a movie full of women trying to keep unwelcome men at bay—Ginnie is pursued by a stalker; Frank’s secretary falls under his extramarital gaze; Dave’s niece spends time with both a booze-pushing boyfriend and a sleazy traveling salesman—Gwen’s situation is the most maddening because she’s portrayed as a willingvictim, expected to
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE Portrait of a Lady on Fire is punctuated by numerous instances of stunning imagery. The title, while a play on Henry James’ The Portrait of a Lady, also comes from a moment in which Marianne and Heloise visit the nearby village and join a gathering of women around a bonfire.Their eyes lock over the flames—the heat of the fire casting a shimmering curtain between them—and they hold eachTHE TURIN HORSE
The Turin Horse. An apocalyptic parable set in an isolated farmhouse, The Turin Horse might befuddle you and it might bore you. But I guarantee you won’t forget some of the images, and more likely than not you’ll be left pondering their potential meaning. The movie chronicles the daily routines of an aging father (Janos Derzsi) andhis
CRUELLA | LARSEN ON FILM Cruella. An aggressive, assaultive attempt to engender empathy for the would-be puppy killer in 1961’s animated One Hundred and One Dalmatians, the live-action Cruella must have known any audience sympathy would be hard-won. How else would you explain the bizarre decision to open the movie with a trio of demonic dalmatians attackingand
SOUL | LARSEN ON FILM Fleeing that fate, Joe meets a young soul named 22 (Tina Fey) who’s resisting her own predetermined destination: as a newborn human. Together, Joe and 22 try to cheat the system, but a mishap sends them both to Earth, where 22’s soul gets stuck in Joe’s body and Joe’s soul gets stuck in a cat. The screenplay deftly navigates allof
FARGO | LARSEN ON FILM Good and evil, crime and punishment, law and grace. With Fargo, the Coen brothers realized that these existential concerns didn’t need to be conveyed via gangster-movie theatrics or haunted-hotel atmospherics.A wintry, mundane stretch of Minnesota highway will do. I don’t mean it as a slight to their previous movies to say that Fargo is where their craft fully matured (after all, I like MCCABE & MRS. MILLER McCabe & Mrs. Miller is less a deromanticized Western than an emasculated one. It’s a de-pantsing, really, of the strong, silent men who have long dominated the genre. Drop a stronger, louder woman into their midst, and they’re done.INTO THE ABYSS
With Into the Abyss, director Werner Herzog is clear about his personal opinion regarding the death penalty.In the film’s opening moments, he asks a pastor, “Why does God allow capital punishment?” Yet his primary interest seems to be in the personal stories of the people who are caught up in the American (specifically, Texan) system of crime and punishment.THE TURIN HORSE
The Turin Horse. An apocalyptic parable set in an isolated farmhouse, The Turin Horse might befuddle you and it might bore you. But I guarantee you won’t forget some of the images, and more likely than not you’ll be left pondering their potential meaning. The movie chronicles the daily routines of an aging father (Janos Derzsi) andhis
KILLER OF SHEEP
Killer of Sheep focuses on Stan (Henry Gayle Sanders), a slaughterhouse worker whose long hours on the job and care to stay on the right side of the law have failed to deliver the American dream. In slice-of-life vignettes that stand in for plot, we see that poverty and desperation pervade his downtrodden community, where kids passtheir days
THE ELEPHANT MAN
There’s a tension to The Elephant Man that only resolves itself occasionally, but when it does the movie is a thing of strange beauty.. You could say that the film’s subject, Joseph Merrick, had a strange beauty of his own. Here called John Merrick and played by John Hurt, the “elephant man” is a tormented soul we first meet at a carnival freak show in Victorian-era London.QUEEN & SLIM
The names of the title characters in Queen & Slim are actually Ernest Hines (Daniel Kaluuya) and Angela Johnson (Jodie Turner-Smith), but it’s fitting that this detail gets lost fairly early on in the film. The movie—in which a couple on a first date is pulled over and harassed by a police officer, leading to an altercation in which Ernest shoots the officer in self-defense—reveals how LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN Letter From an Unknown Woman. For all its modern touches – a frank acknowledgment of sex among them – Letter From an Unknown Woman is a 1948 melodrama whose idea of womanhood seems pulled from an even earlier era. It’s a women’s picture that nonetheless turns on malechauvinism.
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A Quiet Place Part II. “mostly about its homegrown characters learning to ‘man up.'”. Wrath of Man. “juvenile stuff that gets unnecessarily dark.”. About Endlessness. “a somber, almost defeated work.”. Godzilla vs. Kong. “It was the headbutt that hooked me.”. LATEST REVIEWS. MOONLIGHT | LARSEN ON FILM Running from bullies one day, he finds an ironic protector in the neighborhood drug dealer, named Juan (Mahershala Ali). It’s Juan who helps Little come to terms with what he himself is barely beginning to understand: that he’s being targeted by the others because he is gay. Juan is a fascinating figure, brought to riveting life by Ali. SOUL | LARSEN ON FILM Fleeing that fate, Joe meets a young soul named 22 (Tina Fey) who’s resisting her own predetermined destination: as a newborn human. Together, Joe and 22 try to cheat the system, but a mishap sends them both to Earth, where 22’s soul gets stuck in Joe’s body and Joe’s soul gets stuck in a cat. The screenplay deftly navigates allof
THE NEST | LARSEN ON FILM The Nest is set in the 1980s, and during these moments Coon thrillingly delivers a mash-up of Linda Hamilton’s Terminator toughness and Melanie Griffith’s Working Girl hair. From there things spiral downward, in an extended parallel sequence, for all of the O’Haras. Durkin lends this a touch of horror, as he did inMartha Marcy May
CABIN IN THE SKY
Cabin in the Sky is a heavy-handed morality tale (with suspect theology), yet once the performers grab ahold of the music, all that falls by the wayside. Waters and Anderson have a touching duet, the title number, that captures the friction at the heart of their marriage. Anderson also gets a number with Horne, “Life is Full ofConsequence
SUPER FLY | LARSEN ON FILM A wolf in pimp’s clothing. Super Fly is a movie of surprising political bite and emotional nuance, considering it is usually discussed in terms of its outrageously flashy cars and clothes.. The outfits are something – in his patterned, full-length jackets, star Ron O’Neal often looks like he’s wrapped up in a carpet – but this blaxploitation classic is interested in so much more thanINTO THE ABYSS
With Into the Abyss, director Werner Herzog is clear about his personal opinion regarding the death penalty.In the film’s opening moments, he asks a pastor, “Why does God allow capital punishment?” Yet his primary interest seems to be in the personal stories of the people who are caught up in the American (specifically, Texan) system of crime and punishment. THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS The film is set during the Algerian War of the 1950s, as France’s occupying forces try to root out a network of militant cells seeking Algerian independence. Very early on, we witness French paratroopers raiding a home in the Muslim quarter of the title city. Hiding behind a false wall are two men, a MCCABE & MRS. MILLER Drop a stronger, louder woman into their midst, and they’re done. Directed by Robert Altman, McCabe & Mrs. Miller begins with a man who is seemingly in control. John McCabe (Warren Beatty, offering a sly self critique) arrives on the outskirts of the Pacific Northwest town of Presbyterian Church, circa 1902. Before entering the lone bar/hotelSOME CAME RUNNING
In a movie full of women trying to keep unwelcome men at bay—Ginnie is pursued by a stalker; Frank’s secretary falls under his extramarital gaze; Dave’s niece spends time with both a booze-pushing boyfriend and a sleazy traveling salesman—Gwen’s situation is the most maddening because she’s portrayed as a willingvictim, expected to
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A Quiet Place Part II. “mostly about its homegrown characters learning to ‘man up.'”. Wrath of Man. “juvenile stuff that gets unnecessarily dark.”. About Endlessness. “a somber, almost defeated work.”. Godzilla vs. Kong. “It was the headbutt that hooked me.”. LATEST REVIEWS. MOONLIGHT | LARSEN ON FILM Running from bullies one day, he finds an ironic protector in the neighborhood drug dealer, named Juan (Mahershala Ali). It’s Juan who helps Little come to terms with what he himself is barely beginning to understand: that he’s being targeted by the others because he is gay. Juan is a fascinating figure, brought to riveting life by Ali. SOUL | LARSEN ON FILM Fleeing that fate, Joe meets a young soul named 22 (Tina Fey) who’s resisting her own predetermined destination: as a newborn human. Together, Joe and 22 try to cheat the system, but a mishap sends them both to Earth, where 22’s soul gets stuck in Joe’s body and Joe’s soul gets stuck in a cat. The screenplay deftly navigates allof
THE NEST | LARSEN ON FILM The Nest is set in the 1980s, and during these moments Coon thrillingly delivers a mash-up of Linda Hamilton’s Terminator toughness and Melanie Griffith’s Working Girl hair. From there things spiral downward, in an extended parallel sequence, for all of the O’Haras. Durkin lends this a touch of horror, as he did inMartha Marcy May
CABIN IN THE SKY
Cabin in the Sky is a heavy-handed morality tale (with suspect theology), yet once the performers grab ahold of the music, all that falls by the wayside. Waters and Anderson have a touching duet, the title number, that captures the friction at the heart of their marriage. Anderson also gets a number with Horne, “Life is Full ofConsequence
SUPER FLY | LARSEN ON FILM A wolf in pimp’s clothing. Super Fly is a movie of surprising political bite and emotional nuance, considering it is usually discussed in terms of its outrageously flashy cars and clothes.. The outfits are something – in his patterned, full-length jackets, star Ron O’Neal often looks like he’s wrapped up in a carpet – but this blaxploitation classic is interested in so much more thanINTO THE ABYSS
With Into the Abyss, director Werner Herzog is clear about his personal opinion regarding the death penalty.In the film’s opening moments, he asks a pastor, “Why does God allow capital punishment?” Yet his primary interest seems to be in the personal stories of the people who are caught up in the American (specifically, Texan) system of crime and punishment. THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS The film is set during the Algerian War of the 1950s, as France’s occupying forces try to root out a network of militant cells seeking Algerian independence. Very early on, we witness French paratroopers raiding a home in the Muslim quarter of the title city. Hiding behind a false wall are two men, a MCCABE & MRS. MILLER Drop a stronger, louder woman into their midst, and they’re done. Directed by Robert Altman, McCabe & Mrs. Miller begins with a man who is seemingly in control. John McCabe (Warren Beatty, offering a sly self critique) arrives on the outskirts of the Pacific Northwest town of Presbyterian Church, circa 1902. Before entering the lone bar/hotelSOME CAME RUNNING
In a movie full of women trying to keep unwelcome men at bay—Ginnie is pursued by a stalker; Frank’s secretary falls under his extramarital gaze; Dave’s niece spends time with both a booze-pushing boyfriend and a sleazy traveling salesman—Gwen’s situation is the most maddening because she’s portrayed as a willingvictim, expected to
FARGO | LARSEN ON FILM Good and evil, crime and punishment, law and grace. With Fargo, the Coen brothers realized that these existential concerns didn’t need to be conveyed via gangster-movie theatrics or haunted-hotel atmospherics.A wintry, mundane stretch of Minnesota highway will do. I don’t mean it as a slight to their previous movies to say that Fargo is where their craft fully matured (after all, I like SUPER FLY | LARSEN ON FILM A wolf in pimp’s clothing. Super Fly is a movie of surprising political bite and emotional nuance, considering it is usually discussed in terms of its outrageously flashy cars and clothes.. The outfits are something – in his patterned, full-length jackets, star Ron O’Neal often looks like he’s wrapped up in a carpet – but this blaxploitation classic is interested in so much more than SHAMPOO | LARSEN ON FILM Oh, and Carrie Fisher, clear-eyed and calculating in her feature debut as their daughter. Each portrays a uniquely envisioned woman who launches herself into George’s orbit for her own distinct reason. Together, they create a solar system equally comprised of comedy andpathos.
NEWS-FROM-HOME-REVIEW “A deep dive into the life of the mind—or at least the minds of Joel and Ethan Coen.”THE RIGHT STUFF
The Right Stuff. Masculinely romantic, The Right Stuff holds up the men who pioneered the United States space program as ultimate American archetypes. Portrayed as cowboys from the past who led the country into the future, one of them is literally depicted on EX MACHINA | LARSEN ON FILM There is a creepy inevitability to Ex Machina that distinguishes the movie both as a work of modern horror and of prescient science fiction. You watch it not only knowing that something bad is going to happen, but that when it happens, it will likely go down both in the theater and in the real world.THE TURIN HORSE
The Turin Horse. An apocalyptic parable set in an isolated farmhouse, The Turin Horse might befuddle you and it might bore you. But I guarantee you won’t forget some of the images, and more likely than not you’ll be left pondering their potential meaning. The movie chronicles the daily routines of an aging father (Janos Derzsi) andhis
KILLER OF SHEEP
Killer of Sheep focuses on Stan (Henry Gayle Sanders), a slaughterhouse worker whose long hours on the job and care to stay on the right side of the law have failed to deliver the American dream. In slice-of-life vignettes that stand in for plot, we see that poverty and desperation pervade his downtrodden community, where kids passtheir days
MY OCTOPUS TEACHER
My Octopus Teacher is, in a sense, the inverse of Grizzly Man, the Werner Herzog documentary about a grizzly-bear enthusiast who gets a bit too close to his subjects, to disastrous results.Here, a diving enthusiast suffering from a midlife crisis, Craig Foster, has repeated encounters with a particular octopus and ends up being saved, rather than mauled, by the creature.QUEEN & SLIM
The names of the title characters in Queen & Slim are actually Ernest Hines (Daniel Kaluuya) and Angela Johnson (Jodie Turner-Smith), but it’s fitting that this detail gets lost fairly early on in the film. The movie—in which a couple on a first date is pulled over and harassed by a police officer, leading to an altercation in which Ernest shoots the officer in self-defense—reveals howLARSENONFILM.COM
A Quiet Place Part II. “mostly about its homegrown characters learning to ‘man up.'”. Wrath of Man. “juvenile stuff that gets unnecessarily dark.”. About Endlessness. “a somber, almost defeated work.”. Godzilla vs. Kong. “It was the headbutt that hooked me.”. LATEST REVIEWS. MOONLIGHT | LARSEN ON FILM Running from bullies one day, he finds an ironic protector in the neighborhood drug dealer, named Juan (Mahershala Ali). It’s Juan who helps Little come to terms with what he himself is barely beginning to understand: that he’s being targeted by the others because he is gay. Juan is a fascinating figure, brought to riveting life by Ali. SOUL | LARSEN ON FILM Fleeing that fate, Joe meets a young soul named 22 (Tina Fey) who’s resisting her own predetermined destination: as a newborn human. Together, Joe and 22 try to cheat the system, but a mishap sends them both to Earth, where 22’s soul gets stuck in Joe’s body and Joe’s soul gets stuck in a cat. The screenplay deftly navigates allof
THE NEST | LARSEN ON FILMTHE NEST JUDE LAWTHE NEST JUDE LAW STREAMINGTHE NEST MOVIE JUDE LAWTHE NEST MOVIE STREAMINGTHE NEST MOVIE TRAILERTHE NEST MOVIE TRAILER 2020 The Nest is set in the 1980s, and during these moments Coon thrillingly delivers a mash-up of Linda Hamilton’s Terminator toughness and Melanie Griffith’s Working Girl hair. From there things spiral downward, in an extended parallel sequence, for all of the O’Haras. Durkin lends this a touch of horror, as he did inMartha Marcy May
CABIN IN THE SKY
Cabin in the Sky is a heavy-handed morality tale (with suspect theology), yet once the performers grab ahold of the music, all that falls by the wayside. Waters and Anderson have a touching duet, the title number, that captures the friction at the heart of their marriage. Anderson also gets a number with Horne, “Life is Full ofConsequence
SUPER FLY | LARSEN ON FILM A wolf in pimp’s clothing. Super Fly is a movie of surprising political bite and emotional nuance, considering it is usually discussed in terms of its outrageously flashy cars and clothes.. The outfits are something – in his patterned, full-length jackets, star Ron O’Neal often looks like he’s wrapped up in a carpet – but this blaxploitation classic is interested in so much more thanINTO THE ABYSS
With Into the Abyss, director Werner Herzog is clear about his personal opinion regarding the death penalty.In the film’s opening moments, he asks a pastor, “Why does God allow capital punishment?” Yet his primary interest seems to be in the personal stories of the people who are caught up in the American (specifically, Texan) system of crime and punishment. THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS The film is set during the Algerian War of the 1950s, as France’s occupying forces try to root out a network of militant cells seeking Algerian independence. Very early on, we witness French paratroopers raiding a home in the Muslim quarter of the title city. Hiding behind a false wall are two men, a MCCABE & MRS. MILLER Drop a stronger, louder woman into their midst, and they’re done. Directed by Robert Altman, McCabe & Mrs. Miller begins with a man who is seemingly in control. John McCabe (Warren Beatty, offering a sly self critique) arrives on the outskirts of the Pacific Northwest town of Presbyterian Church, circa 1902. Before entering the lone bar/hotelSOME CAME RUNNING
In a movie full of women trying to keep unwelcome men at bay—Ginnie is pursued by a stalker; Frank’s secretary falls under his extramarital gaze; Dave’s niece spends time with both a booze-pushing boyfriend and a sleazy traveling salesman—Gwen’s situation is the most maddening because she’s portrayed as a willingvictim, expected to
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A Quiet Place Part II. “mostly about its homegrown characters learning to ‘man up.'”. Wrath of Man. “juvenile stuff that gets unnecessarily dark.”. About Endlessness. “a somber, almost defeated work.”. Godzilla vs. Kong. “It was the headbutt that hooked me.”. LATEST REVIEWS. MOONLIGHT | LARSEN ON FILM Running from bullies one day, he finds an ironic protector in the neighborhood drug dealer, named Juan (Mahershala Ali). It’s Juan who helps Little come to terms with what he himself is barely beginning to understand: that he’s being targeted by the others because he is gay. Juan is a fascinating figure, brought to riveting life by Ali. SOUL | LARSEN ON FILM Fleeing that fate, Joe meets a young soul named 22 (Tina Fey) who’s resisting her own predetermined destination: as a newborn human. Together, Joe and 22 try to cheat the system, but a mishap sends them both to Earth, where 22’s soul gets stuck in Joe’s body and Joe’s soul gets stuck in a cat. The screenplay deftly navigates allof
THE NEST | LARSEN ON FILMTHE NEST JUDE LAWTHE NEST JUDE LAW STREAMINGTHE NEST MOVIE JUDE LAWTHE NEST MOVIE STREAMINGTHE NEST MOVIE TRAILERTHE NEST MOVIE TRAILER 2020 The Nest is set in the 1980s, and during these moments Coon thrillingly delivers a mash-up of Linda Hamilton’s Terminator toughness and Melanie Griffith’s Working Girl hair. From there things spiral downward, in an extended parallel sequence, for all of the O’Haras. Durkin lends this a touch of horror, as he did inMartha Marcy May
CABIN IN THE SKY
Cabin in the Sky is a heavy-handed morality tale (with suspect theology), yet once the performers grab ahold of the music, all that falls by the wayside. Waters and Anderson have a touching duet, the title number, that captures the friction at the heart of their marriage. Anderson also gets a number with Horne, “Life is Full ofConsequence
SUPER FLY | LARSEN ON FILM A wolf in pimp’s clothing. Super Fly is a movie of surprising political bite and emotional nuance, considering it is usually discussed in terms of its outrageously flashy cars and clothes.. The outfits are something – in his patterned, full-length jackets, star Ron O’Neal often looks like he’s wrapped up in a carpet – but this blaxploitation classic is interested in so much more thanINTO THE ABYSS
With Into the Abyss, director Werner Herzog is clear about his personal opinion regarding the death penalty.In the film’s opening moments, he asks a pastor, “Why does God allow capital punishment?” Yet his primary interest seems to be in the personal stories of the people who are caught up in the American (specifically, Texan) system of crime and punishment. THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS The film is set during the Algerian War of the 1950s, as France’s occupying forces try to root out a network of militant cells seeking Algerian independence. Very early on, we witness French paratroopers raiding a home in the Muslim quarter of the title city. Hiding behind a false wall are two men, a MCCABE & MRS. MILLER Drop a stronger, louder woman into their midst, and they’re done. Directed by Robert Altman, McCabe & Mrs. Miller begins with a man who is seemingly in control. John McCabe (Warren Beatty, offering a sly self critique) arrives on the outskirts of the Pacific Northwest town of Presbyterian Church, circa 1902. Before entering the lone bar/hotelSOME CAME RUNNING
In a movie full of women trying to keep unwelcome men at bay—Ginnie is pursued by a stalker; Frank’s secretary falls under his extramarital gaze; Dave’s niece spends time with both a booze-pushing boyfriend and a sleazy traveling salesman—Gwen’s situation is the most maddening because she’s portrayed as a willingvictim, expected to
FARGO | LARSEN ON FILM Good and evil, crime and punishment, law and grace. With Fargo, the Coen brothers realized that these existential concerns didn’t need to be conveyed via gangster-movie theatrics or haunted-hotel atmospherics.A wintry, mundane stretch of Minnesota highway will do. I don’t mean it as a slight to their previous movies to say that Fargo is where their craft fully matured (after all, I like SUPER FLY | LARSEN ON FILM A wolf in pimp’s clothing. Super Fly is a movie of surprising political bite and emotional nuance, considering it is usually discussed in terms of its outrageously flashy cars and clothes.. The outfits are something – in his patterned, full-length jackets, star Ron O’Neal often looks like he’s wrapped up in a carpet – but this blaxploitation classic is interested in so much more than SHAMPOO | LARSEN ON FILM Oh, and Carrie Fisher, clear-eyed and calculating in her feature debut as their daughter. Each portrays a uniquely envisioned woman who launches herself into George’s orbit for her own distinct reason. Together, they create a solar system equally comprised of comedy andpathos.
NEWS-FROM-HOME-REVIEW “A deep dive into the life of the mind—or at least the minds of Joel and Ethan Coen.”THE RIGHT STUFF
The Right Stuff. Masculinely romantic, The Right Stuff holds up the men who pioneered the United States space program as ultimate American archetypes. Portrayed as cowboys from the past who led the country into the future, one of them is literally depicted on EX MACHINA | LARSEN ON FILM There is a creepy inevitability to Ex Machina that distinguishes the movie both as a work of modern horror and of prescient science fiction. You watch it not only knowing that something bad is going to happen, but that when it happens, it will likely go down both in the theater and in the real world.THE TURIN HORSE
The Turin Horse. An apocalyptic parable set in an isolated farmhouse, The Turin Horse might befuddle you and it might bore you. But I guarantee you won’t forget some of the images, and more likely than not you’ll be left pondering their potential meaning. The movie chronicles the daily routines of an aging father (Janos Derzsi) andhis
KILLER OF SHEEP
Killer of Sheep focuses on Stan (Henry Gayle Sanders), a slaughterhouse worker whose long hours on the job and care to stay on the right side of the law have failed to deliver the American dream. In slice-of-life vignettes that stand in for plot, we see that poverty and desperation pervade his downtrodden community, where kids passtheir days
MY OCTOPUS TEACHER
My Octopus Teacher is, in a sense, the inverse of Grizzly Man, the Werner Herzog documentary about a grizzly-bear enthusiast who gets a bit too close to his subjects, to disastrous results.Here, a diving enthusiast suffering from a midlife crisis, Craig Foster, has repeated encounters with a particular octopus and ends up being saved, rather than mauled, by the creature.QUEEN & SLIM
The names of the title characters in Queen & Slim are actually Ernest Hines (Daniel Kaluuya) and Angela Johnson (Jodie Turner-Smith), but it’s fitting that this detail gets lost fairly early on in the film. The movie—in which a couple on a first date is pulled over and harassed by a police officer, leading to an altercation in which Ernest shoots the officer in self-defense—reveals howLARSENONFILM.COM
A Quiet Place Part II. “mostly about its homegrown characters learning to ‘man up.'”. Wrath of Man. “juvenile stuff that gets unnecessarily dark.”. About Endlessness. “a somber, almost defeated work.”. Godzilla vs. Kong. “It was the headbutt that hooked me.”. LATEST REVIEWS. MOONLIGHT | LARSEN ON FILM Running from bullies one day, he finds an ironic protector in the neighborhood drug dealer, named Juan (Mahershala Ali). It’s Juan who helps Little come to terms with what he himself is barely beginning to understand: that he’s being targeted by the others because he is gay. Juan is a fascinating figure, brought to riveting life by Ali. SOUL | LARSEN ON FILM Fleeing that fate, Joe meets a young soul named 22 (Tina Fey) who’s resisting her own predetermined destination: as a newborn human. Together, Joe and 22 try to cheat the system, but a mishap sends them both to Earth, where 22’s soul gets stuck in Joe’s body and Joe’s soul gets stuck in a cat. The screenplay deftly navigates allof
THE NEST | LARSEN ON FILMTHE NEST JUDE LAWTHE NEST JUDE LAW STREAMINGTHE NEST MOVIE JUDE LAWTHE NEST MOVIE STREAMINGTHE NEST MOVIE TRAILERTHE NEST MOVIE TRAILER 2020 The Nest is set in the 1980s, and during these moments Coon thrillingly delivers a mash-up of Linda Hamilton’s Terminator toughness and Melanie Griffith’s Working Girl hair. From there things spiral downward, in an extended parallel sequence, for all of the O’Haras. Durkin lends this a touch of horror, as he did inMartha Marcy May
CABIN IN THE SKY
Cabin in the Sky is a heavy-handed morality tale (with suspect theology), yet once the performers grab ahold of the music, all that falls by the wayside. Waters and Anderson have a touching duet, the title number, that captures the friction at the heart of their marriage. Anderson also gets a number with Horne, “Life is Full ofConsequence
SUPER FLY | LARSEN ON FILM A wolf in pimp’s clothing. Super Fly is a movie of surprising political bite and emotional nuance, considering it is usually discussed in terms of its outrageously flashy cars and clothes.. The outfits are something – in his patterned, full-length jackets, star Ron O’Neal often looks like he’s wrapped up in a carpet – but this blaxploitation classic is interested in so much more thanINTO THE ABYSS
With Into the Abyss, director Werner Herzog is clear about his personal opinion regarding the death penalty.In the film’s opening moments, he asks a pastor, “Why does God allow capital punishment?” Yet his primary interest seems to be in the personal stories of the people who are caught up in the American (specifically, Texan) system of crime and punishment. THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS The film is set during the Algerian War of the 1950s, as France’s occupying forces try to root out a network of militant cells seeking Algerian independence. Very early on, we witness French paratroopers raiding a home in the Muslim quarter of the title city. Hiding behind a false wall are two men, a MCCABE & MRS. MILLER Drop a stronger, louder woman into their midst, and they’re done. Directed by Robert Altman, McCabe & Mrs. Miller begins with a man who is seemingly in control. John McCabe (Warren Beatty, offering a sly self critique) arrives on the outskirts of the Pacific Northwest town of Presbyterian Church, circa 1902. Before entering the lone bar/hotelSOME CAME RUNNING
In a movie full of women trying to keep unwelcome men at bay—Ginnie is pursued by a stalker; Frank’s secretary falls under his extramarital gaze; Dave’s niece spends time with both a booze-pushing boyfriend and a sleazy traveling salesman—Gwen’s situation is the most maddening because she’s portrayed as a willingvictim, expected to
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A Quiet Place Part II. “mostly about its homegrown characters learning to ‘man up.'”. Wrath of Man. “juvenile stuff that gets unnecessarily dark.”. About Endlessness. “a somber, almost defeated work.”. Godzilla vs. Kong. “It was the headbutt that hooked me.”. LATEST REVIEWS. MOONLIGHT | LARSEN ON FILM Running from bullies one day, he finds an ironic protector in the neighborhood drug dealer, named Juan (Mahershala Ali). It’s Juan who helps Little come to terms with what he himself is barely beginning to understand: that he’s being targeted by the others because he is gay. Juan is a fascinating figure, brought to riveting life by Ali. SOUL | LARSEN ON FILM Fleeing that fate, Joe meets a young soul named 22 (Tina Fey) who’s resisting her own predetermined destination: as a newborn human. Together, Joe and 22 try to cheat the system, but a mishap sends them both to Earth, where 22’s soul gets stuck in Joe’s body and Joe’s soul gets stuck in a cat. The screenplay deftly navigates allof
THE NEST | LARSEN ON FILMTHE NEST JUDE LAWTHE NEST JUDE LAW STREAMINGTHE NEST MOVIE JUDE LAWTHE NEST MOVIE STREAMINGTHE NEST MOVIE TRAILERTHE NEST MOVIE TRAILER 2020 The Nest is set in the 1980s, and during these moments Coon thrillingly delivers a mash-up of Linda Hamilton’s Terminator toughness and Melanie Griffith’s Working Girl hair. From there things spiral downward, in an extended parallel sequence, for all of the O’Haras. Durkin lends this a touch of horror, as he did inMartha Marcy May
CABIN IN THE SKY
Cabin in the Sky is a heavy-handed morality tale (with suspect theology), yet once the performers grab ahold of the music, all that falls by the wayside. Waters and Anderson have a touching duet, the title number, that captures the friction at the heart of their marriage. Anderson also gets a number with Horne, “Life is Full ofConsequence
SUPER FLY | LARSEN ON FILM A wolf in pimp’s clothing. Super Fly is a movie of surprising political bite and emotional nuance, considering it is usually discussed in terms of its outrageously flashy cars and clothes.. The outfits are something – in his patterned, full-length jackets, star Ron O’Neal often looks like he’s wrapped up in a carpet – but this blaxploitation classic is interested in so much more thanINTO THE ABYSS
With Into the Abyss, director Werner Herzog is clear about his personal opinion regarding the death penalty.In the film’s opening moments, he asks a pastor, “Why does God allow capital punishment?” Yet his primary interest seems to be in the personal stories of the people who are caught up in the American (specifically, Texan) system of crime and punishment. THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS The film is set during the Algerian War of the 1950s, as France’s occupying forces try to root out a network of militant cells seeking Algerian independence. Very early on, we witness French paratroopers raiding a home in the Muslim quarter of the title city. Hiding behind a false wall are two men, a MCCABE & MRS. MILLER Drop a stronger, louder woman into their midst, and they’re done. Directed by Robert Altman, McCabe & Mrs. Miller begins with a man who is seemingly in control. John McCabe (Warren Beatty, offering a sly self critique) arrives on the outskirts of the Pacific Northwest town of Presbyterian Church, circa 1902. Before entering the lone bar/hotelSOME CAME RUNNING
In a movie full of women trying to keep unwelcome men at bay—Ginnie is pursued by a stalker; Frank’s secretary falls under his extramarital gaze; Dave’s niece spends time with both a booze-pushing boyfriend and a sleazy traveling salesman—Gwen’s situation is the most maddening because she’s portrayed as a willingvictim, expected to
FARGO | LARSEN ON FILM Good and evil, crime and punishment, law and grace. With Fargo, the Coen brothers realized that these existential concerns didn’t need to be conveyed via gangster-movie theatrics or haunted-hotel atmospherics.A wintry, mundane stretch of Minnesota highway will do. I don’t mean it as a slight to their previous movies to say that Fargo is where their craft fully matured (after all, I like SUPER FLY | LARSEN ON FILM A wolf in pimp’s clothing. Super Fly is a movie of surprising political bite and emotional nuance, considering it is usually discussed in terms of its outrageously flashy cars and clothes.. The outfits are something – in his patterned, full-length jackets, star Ron O’Neal often looks like he’s wrapped up in a carpet – but this blaxploitation classic is interested in so much more than SHAMPOO | LARSEN ON FILM Oh, and Carrie Fisher, clear-eyed and calculating in her feature debut as their daughter. Each portrays a uniquely envisioned woman who launches herself into George’s orbit for her own distinct reason. Together, they create a solar system equally comprised of comedy andpathos.
NEWS-FROM-HOME-REVIEW “A deep dive into the life of the mind—or at least the minds of Joel and Ethan Coen.”THE RIGHT STUFF
The Right Stuff. Masculinely romantic, The Right Stuff holds up the men who pioneered the United States space program as ultimate American archetypes. Portrayed as cowboys from the past who led the country into the future, one of them is literally depicted on EX MACHINA | LARSEN ON FILM There is a creepy inevitability to Ex Machina that distinguishes the movie both as a work of modern horror and of prescient science fiction. You watch it not only knowing that something bad is going to happen, but that when it happens, it will likely go down both in the theater and in the real world.THE TURIN HORSE
The Turin Horse. An apocalyptic parable set in an isolated farmhouse, The Turin Horse might befuddle you and it might bore you. But I guarantee you won’t forget some of the images, and more likely than not you’ll be left pondering their potential meaning. The movie chronicles the daily routines of an aging father (Janos Derzsi) andhis
KILLER OF SHEEP
Killer of Sheep focuses on Stan (Henry Gayle Sanders), a slaughterhouse worker whose long hours on the job and care to stay on the right side of the law have failed to deliver the American dream. In slice-of-life vignettes that stand in for plot, we see that poverty and desperation pervade his downtrodden community, where kids passtheir days
MY OCTOPUS TEACHER
My Octopus Teacher is, in a sense, the inverse of Grizzly Man, the Werner Herzog documentary about a grizzly-bear enthusiast who gets a bit too close to his subjects, to disastrous results.Here, a diving enthusiast suffering from a midlife crisis, Craig Foster, has repeated encounters with a particular octopus and ends up being saved, rather than mauled, by the creature.QUEEN & SLIM
The names of the title characters in Queen & Slim are actually Ernest Hines (Daniel Kaluuya) and Angela Johnson (Jodie Turner-Smith), but it’s fitting that this detail gets lost fairly early on in the film. The movie—in which a couple on a first date is pulled over and harassed by a police officer, leading to an altercation in which Ernest shoots the officer in self-defense—reveals howLARSENONFILM.COM
A Quiet Place Part II. “mostly about its homegrown characters learning to ‘man up.'”. Wrath of Man. “juvenile stuff that gets unnecessarily dark.”. About Endlessness. “a somber, almost defeated work.”. Godzilla vs. Kong. “It was the headbutt that hooked me.”. LATEST REVIEWS. MOONLIGHT | LARSEN ON FILM Running from bullies one day, he finds an ironic protector in the neighborhood drug dealer, named Juan (Mahershala Ali). It’s Juan who helps Little come to terms with what he himself is barely beginning to understand: that he’s being targeted by the others because he is gay. Juan is a fascinating figure, brought to riveting life by Ali. SOUL | LARSEN ON FILM Fleeing that fate, Joe meets a young soul named 22 (Tina Fey) who’s resisting her own predetermined destination: as a newborn human. Together, Joe and 22 try to cheat the system, but a mishap sends them both to Earth, where 22’s soul gets stuck in Joe’s body and Joe’s soul gets stuck in a cat. The screenplay deftly navigates allof
THE NEST | LARSEN ON FILMTHE NEST JUDE LAWTHE NEST JUDE LAW STREAMINGTHE NEST MOVIE JUDE LAWTHE NEST MOVIE STREAMINGTHE NEST MOVIE TRAILERTHE NEST MOVIE TRAILER 2020 The Nest is set in the 1980s, and during these moments Coon thrillingly delivers a mash-up of Linda Hamilton’s Terminator toughness and Melanie Griffith’s Working Girl hair. From there things spiral downward, in an extended parallel sequence, for all of the O’Haras. Durkin lends this a touch of horror, as he did inMartha Marcy May
CABIN IN THE SKY
Cabin in the Sky is a heavy-handed morality tale (with suspect theology), yet once the performers grab ahold of the music, all that falls by the wayside. Waters and Anderson have a touching duet, the title number, that captures the friction at the heart of their marriage. Anderson also gets a number with Horne, “Life is Full ofConsequence
SUPER FLY | LARSEN ON FILM A wolf in pimp’s clothing. Super Fly is a movie of surprising political bite and emotional nuance, considering it is usually discussed in terms of its outrageously flashy cars and clothes.. The outfits are something – in his patterned, full-length jackets, star Ron O’Neal often looks like he’s wrapped up in a carpet – but this blaxploitation classic is interested in so much more thanINTO THE ABYSS
With Into the Abyss, director Werner Herzog is clear about his personal opinion regarding the death penalty.In the film’s opening moments, he asks a pastor, “Why does God allow capital punishment?” Yet his primary interest seems to be in the personal stories of the people who are caught up in the American (specifically, Texan) system of crime and punishment. THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS The film is set during the Algerian War of the 1950s, as France’s occupying forces try to root out a network of militant cells seeking Algerian independence. Very early on, we witness French paratroopers raiding a home in the Muslim quarter of the title city. Hiding behind a false wall are two men, a MCCABE & MRS. MILLER Drop a stronger, louder woman into their midst, and they’re done. Directed by Robert Altman, McCabe & Mrs. Miller begins with a man who is seemingly in control. John McCabe (Warren Beatty, offering a sly self critique) arrives on the outskirts of the Pacific Northwest town of Presbyterian Church, circa 1902. Before entering the lone bar/hotelSOME CAME RUNNING
In a movie full of women trying to keep unwelcome men at bay—Ginnie is pursued by a stalker; Frank’s secretary falls under his extramarital gaze; Dave’s niece spends time with both a booze-pushing boyfriend and a sleazy traveling salesman—Gwen’s situation is the most maddening because she’s portrayed as a willingvictim, expected to
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A Quiet Place Part II. “mostly about its homegrown characters learning to ‘man up.'”. Wrath of Man. “juvenile stuff that gets unnecessarily dark.”. About Endlessness. “a somber, almost defeated work.”. Godzilla vs. Kong. “It was the headbutt that hooked me.”. LATEST REVIEWS. MOONLIGHT | LARSEN ON FILM Running from bullies one day, he finds an ironic protector in the neighborhood drug dealer, named Juan (Mahershala Ali). It’s Juan who helps Little come to terms with what he himself is barely beginning to understand: that he’s being targeted by the others because he is gay. Juan is a fascinating figure, brought to riveting life by Ali. SOUL | LARSEN ON FILM Fleeing that fate, Joe meets a young soul named 22 (Tina Fey) who’s resisting her own predetermined destination: as a newborn human. Together, Joe and 22 try to cheat the system, but a mishap sends them both to Earth, where 22’s soul gets stuck in Joe’s body and Joe’s soul gets stuck in a cat. The screenplay deftly navigates allof
THE NEST | LARSEN ON FILMTHE NEST JUDE LAWTHE NEST JUDE LAW STREAMINGTHE NEST MOVIE JUDE LAWTHE NEST MOVIE STREAMINGTHE NEST MOVIE TRAILERTHE NEST MOVIE TRAILER 2020 The Nest is set in the 1980s, and during these moments Coon thrillingly delivers a mash-up of Linda Hamilton’s Terminator toughness and Melanie Griffith’s Working Girl hair. From there things spiral downward, in an extended parallel sequence, for all of the O’Haras. Durkin lends this a touch of horror, as he did inMartha Marcy May
CABIN IN THE SKY
Cabin in the Sky is a heavy-handed morality tale (with suspect theology), yet once the performers grab ahold of the music, all that falls by the wayside. Waters and Anderson have a touching duet, the title number, that captures the friction at the heart of their marriage. Anderson also gets a number with Horne, “Life is Full ofConsequence
SUPER FLY | LARSEN ON FILM A wolf in pimp’s clothing. Super Fly is a movie of surprising political bite and emotional nuance, considering it is usually discussed in terms of its outrageously flashy cars and clothes.. The outfits are something – in his patterned, full-length jackets, star Ron O’Neal often looks like he’s wrapped up in a carpet – but this blaxploitation classic is interested in so much more thanINTO THE ABYSS
With Into the Abyss, director Werner Herzog is clear about his personal opinion regarding the death penalty.In the film’s opening moments, he asks a pastor, “Why does God allow capital punishment?” Yet his primary interest seems to be in the personal stories of the people who are caught up in the American (specifically, Texan) system of crime and punishment. THE BATTLE OF ALGIERS The film is set during the Algerian War of the 1950s, as France’s occupying forces try to root out a network of militant cells seeking Algerian independence. Very early on, we witness French paratroopers raiding a home in the Muslim quarter of the title city. Hiding behind a false wall are two men, a MCCABE & MRS. MILLER Drop a stronger, louder woman into their midst, and they’re done. Directed by Robert Altman, McCabe & Mrs. Miller begins with a man who is seemingly in control. John McCabe (Warren Beatty, offering a sly self critique) arrives on the outskirts of the Pacific Northwest town of Presbyterian Church, circa 1902. Before entering the lone bar/hotelSOME CAME RUNNING
In a movie full of women trying to keep unwelcome men at bay—Ginnie is pursued by a stalker; Frank’s secretary falls under his extramarital gaze; Dave’s niece spends time with both a booze-pushing boyfriend and a sleazy traveling salesman—Gwen’s situation is the most maddening because she’s portrayed as a willingvictim, expected to
FARGO | LARSEN ON FILM Good and evil, crime and punishment, law and grace. With Fargo, the Coen brothers realized that these existential concerns didn’t need to be conveyed via gangster-movie theatrics or haunted-hotel atmospherics.A wintry, mundane stretch of Minnesota highway will do. I don’t mean it as a slight to their previous movies to say that Fargo is where their craft fully matured (after all, I like SUPER FLY | LARSEN ON FILM A wolf in pimp’s clothing. Super Fly is a movie of surprising political bite and emotional nuance, considering it is usually discussed in terms of its outrageously flashy cars and clothes.. The outfits are something – in his patterned, full-length jackets, star Ron O’Neal often looks like he’s wrapped up in a carpet – but this blaxploitation classic is interested in so much more than SHAMPOO | LARSEN ON FILM Oh, and Carrie Fisher, clear-eyed and calculating in her feature debut as their daughter. Each portrays a uniquely envisioned woman who launches herself into George’s orbit for her own distinct reason. Together, they create a solar system equally comprised of comedy andpathos.
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The Right Stuff. Masculinely romantic, The Right Stuff holds up the men who pioneered the United States space program as ultimate American archetypes. Portrayed as cowboys from the past who led the country into the future, one of them is literally depicted on EX MACHINA | LARSEN ON FILM There is a creepy inevitability to Ex Machina that distinguishes the movie both as a work of modern horror and of prescient science fiction. You watch it not only knowing that something bad is going to happen, but that when it happens, it will likely go down both in the theater and in the real world.THE TURIN HORSE
The Turin Horse. An apocalyptic parable set in an isolated farmhouse, The Turin Horse might befuddle you and it might bore you. But I guarantee you won’t forget some of the images, and more likely than not you’ll be left pondering their potential meaning. The movie chronicles the daily routines of an aging father (Janos Derzsi) andhis
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Killer of Sheep focuses on Stan (Henry Gayle Sanders), a slaughterhouse worker whose long hours on the job and care to stay on the right side of the law have failed to deliver the American dream. In slice-of-life vignettes that stand in for plot, we see that poverty and desperation pervade his downtrodden community, where kids passtheir days
MY OCTOPUS TEACHER
My Octopus Teacher is, in a sense, the inverse of Grizzly Man, the Werner Herzog documentary about a grizzly-bear enthusiast who gets a bit too close to his subjects, to disastrous results.Here, a diving enthusiast suffering from a midlife crisis, Craig Foster, has repeated encounters with a particular octopus and ends up being saved, rather than mauled, by the creature.QUEEN & SLIM
The names of the title characters in Queen & Slim are actually Ernest Hines (Daniel Kaluuya) and Angela Johnson (Jodie Turner-Smith), but it’s fitting that this detail gets lost fairly early on in the film. The movie—in which a couple on a first date is pulled over and harassed by a police officer, leading to an altercation in which Ernest shoots the officer in self-defense—reveals how Movies Are Prayers, Josh's book | Get it here* Review Library
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