Tag: A24
On the Outside Looking In or On the Inside Looking Out?: I Saw the TV Glow
Because we live in a time where it has never been less possible to avoid the propensity for “pastiche,” it’s no wonder that Jane Schoenbrun’s [Read More…]
Love Means Never Having To Say You’re Sorry…For Your ‘Roid Rage: Love Lies Bleeding
It would seem lesbianism is “in the air” of late. At least in mainstream pop culture—something that hasn’t happened much since the days of t.A.T.u. [Read More…]
Showing Up: Far From Glamorous, Art Life Is Utterly Middling
There is an idea of art. Or rather, the “art life.” That it is somehow both debauched and glamorous—and also infinitely more exciting than the [Read More…]
Don’t Be Afraid of Beau Is Afraid—Unless the Overbearing Jewish Mother Trope Is Your Worst Nightmare
As one of those movies that has so much psychological buildup surrounding it before one even goes into the theater (or rather, if one goes [Read More…]
“There’s No Remedy For Memory”…Other Than to Drown In It: Joanna Hogg’s The Eternal Daughter
Joanna Hogg’s entire film career has been about going against the grain. Defying the expectation that a movie needs to be “big” in order to [Read More…]
Pearl Proves What Eminem Said Long Ago: “You Only Get One Shot”
Of all the movies released in the past year to end up offering a prequel and a sequel, X seemed among the least likely. After [Read More…]
X Marks the Gerontophobic Spot
It’s perhaps one of those ideas that no one immediately realizes is brilliant because it’s so simple: to make aging—and the fear of it—the key [Read More…]
Don’t Tamper With Mamma Natura: Lamb
Maybe it is because Lamb immediately establishes itself in something like a far-off universe—Iceland—where Ingvar (Hilmir Snær Guðnason) discusses time travel now being a possibility [Read More…]
Marcel the Shell With Shoes On Touches on the Craving for a Tangible Community That Has Been Lost Among Humans
“It’s nice to do together, because it’s well-intentioned,” Jenny Slate says in a 2011 interview with Brian Williams (who also seems only too eager to [Read More…]
Everything Everywhere All At Once: No, It’s Not About Trying to Absorb Mass Media in the Twenty-First Century
Who among us has not wondered what more we might be? How our lives could be altered (read: better) if we had just made one [Read More…]
