Caught Stealing is, at times, pure Aronofsky distilled to 100%. A protagonist hitting rock bottom, gradually losing everyone and everything he cares about.
Industry is not about social status or the adventures, but rather about the despair gnawing at young people despite an approaching professional breakthrough.
Slender Man is a film without character, with characters without character, and with an antagonist without character. It doesn’t work even as entertainment.
There’s no need to overanalyze—The Naked Gun 2½ is widely regarded as just as good as the original, and personally, I think it’s even better.
30 Coins is an interesting, unique, and memorable work, engaging and incredibly twisted. It is without a doubt a total rollercoaster ride.
Even in its most exaggerated moments, the film never approaches the cynicism of the original War of the Roses, which sometimes makes it feel harsher.
The Living and the Dead is able to delight with its atmosphere, unpredictability, and at the same time skillfully directed storytelling.
Perhaps if The First Purge had been released in the 1980s on VHS tapes, today it would enjoy cult status and be compared to Walter Hill’s...
The Thursday Murder Club definitely ranks among the more successful Netflix productions. It contains everything that makes the whodunit genre so enjoyable.
The Undoing is above all a collection of worn-out motifs present in any run-of-the-mill thriller or crime story, of which there are plenty on bookstore shelves.