SXSW 2020: Make Up review – a discovering of the self by way of psychological horror
With her debut feature Make Up, writer/director Claire Oakley seems to posit that the most frightening yet fulfilling undertaking we
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Author: Trace Sauveur
SXSW 2020: The Surrogate review – making the audience embrace a taxing moral dilemma
The Surrogate is a portrait of the immense strain on our personal relationships when faced with a complex moral dilemma.
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SXSW 2020: The Carnivores review – two girls and their dog
The Carnivores is a movie about love on the rocks. There’s Brett (Lindsay Burdge) and her dog Harvie. Brett loves
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SXSW 2020: Crestone review – Soundcloud rappers make a home in the desert
The blurred lines between real life and performance in the internet age have become an increasingly potent topic to investigate.
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SXSW 2020: Lapsis review – an off-kilter drama for the working class
Ray keeps hearing that he should get a quantum computer. Set in what director Noah Hutton describes as a “parallel
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Fantasy Island review – no one was fantasizing about this
I guess it was only a matter of time before someone tried to make Fantasy Island cool again? The original
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Sonic The Hedgehog review – an okay kids movie, a halfhearted Sonic movie Gotta go fast
The Sonic franchise is largely an unfortunate one. Though the classic games left an undeniable stamp on gaming and pop
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Color Out of Space review – Nicolas Cage shines in this trippy nightmare Far out, man
Color Out of Space comes as the return of director Richard Stanley 28 years after his last feature-length directorial venture,
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The Turning review – this so-so ghost movie turns into complete nonsense
The Turning is yet another adaptation of the Henry James novella The Turn of the Screw (none of which I
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Trace Sauveur’s Top 10 Films of 2019
Trace Sauveur’s Top 10 Films of 2019 The current state of the film industry perhaps isn’t the most ideal, but
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A Hidden Life Review: Malick’s Ethereal Stylings Undercut His Return to Narrative
After spending the entirety of the 2010s thus far perfecting what I suppose can now be called his mid-to-late career
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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Second Opinion: Ending the Saga With A Shrug No one's ever really gone... because we gotta keep the fans happy.
I suppose we were always going to end up here. After the vitriolic backlash toward Rian Johnson’s The Last Jedi
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Knives Out Second Opinion: Updating the Classic Hollywood Murder Mystery Family drama
If you’ve seen even just a glimmer of the marketing for Knives Out, Rian Johnson’s follow-up to his mostly successful
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The Nightingale Review: A Gratuitous Slog The exploitation movie tries to grow up
When Jennifer Kent burst onto the scene in 2014 with her debut feature The Babadook, I was absolutely enamored. I
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Doctor Sleep Review: A Messy, Interesting, Weird Extension Hello again, Danny
Doctor Sleep reveals to the audience how it intends to handle its cultural baggage rather quickly. Right from the opening
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The Lighthouse Review: An Atmospheric Trip to Absolute Lunacy This one's here to really shiver ye timbers
If there’s one thing to be learned from both Robert Eggers’ breakout indie-horror darling The Witch and his new, highly
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Prey Review: An Illogical, Banal Genre Exercise The real survival horror is surviving this movie
The plot of director Franck Khalfoun’s latest effort Prey is hilariously baffling. The short version is that high-schooler Toby’s (Logan
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Gemini Man Review: A Deeply Admirable, Flawed Experience Ang Lee's newest technological cinematic experiment is wild
Ang Lee is no stranger when it comes to attempting to integrate his very individual artistic vision with experimental technology.
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The Wretched (Grimmfest 2019) Review Something Wretched This Way Comes
If there’s one movie monster that feels criminally underrepresented in the mainstream lexicon of horror creatures, it has to be
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It Chapter Two Second Opinion: A Major Disappointment It Never Ends
It: Chapter Two is 2 hours and 45 minutes long. While that certainly may seem excessive on the outset, let’s
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