Olivia Cooke
Naked Singularity tries to connect the legal and sci-fi elements of its story but ends up not quite capturing either aspect of the film.
Profound, gorgeously shot, and performed, Little Fish is a film that is unforgettable.
A couple fights to hold their relationship together as a memory loss virus spreads and threatens to erase the history of their love and courtship.
Film Inquiry recently had the opportunity to speak with editor Mikkel Nielsen about his work on the upcoming Riz Ahmed drama, Sound of Metal.
A heavy-metal drummer’s life is thrown into freefall when he begins to lose his hearing.
Katie Says Goodbye proves playing an uplifting song at the end of a film doesn’t resolve the absence of thematic meaning that was lacking throughout the entire movie.
Lily, Amanda, Spencer, and Warren are all a bit bored. School sucks. Growing up isn’t easy. So they join the canon of bored white folks who look that boredom in the eye and turn to violence.
Dan Fogelman’s Life Itself has heart, but it’s ultimately too shallow in execution to support his grander ambitions.
Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One is a truly exhilarating visual experience and a thrilling ode to pop culture. Spielberg’s control of the camera and expertise in crafting an action sequence is nonpareil, ultimately making the film the greatest movie to see in 3D since Avatar.
Watching Thoroughbreds, one is fully aware of the debt it owes to the similar films that came before it. But that doesn’t make it any less enjoyable to watch. Female friendship has never looked so deliciously dangerous.
The Limehouse Golem finds ways to toy with you at every turn, making it entertaining viewing despite its seemingly conventional premise.
Although not without empathy, it is hard to argue against the statement that teenagers are some of the most self-centred people alive. I know this from being a particularly self-centred teenager, who at thirteen regularly made statements of self-loathing in order to gouge sympathy and attention from my peers. It was an attention seeking phase that I mercifully grew out of very quickly, but I can at least be forgiven for it for being young and stupid.
The Quiet Ones director John Pogue took a risk – inviting the viewer to follow along with Professor Joseph Coupland’s (Jared Harris) “experiment” to prove that the supernatural is simply a manifestation created in the minds of the mentally disturbed. What Professor Coupland and his team didn’t expect was a genuine haunting. The Quiet Ones was unexpected, different.