Young CriticVelvet Buzzsaw
In a recent Twitter post documentarian Michael Moore thanked Netflix for funding and releasing films that would otherwise have remained in a vault somewhere. This leads to beautiful gems like Roma and Mudbound , but it
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Young CriticThey Shall Not Grow Old
Peter Jackson has been pioneering new technologies in film since his Lord of the Rings movies introduced an incredibly credible motion-capture character with Gollum. The New Zealand native has built an empire around his
Young CriticSerenity (2019)
Whenever a movie has its release date pushed back, you can already begin to smell problems. Be it because the studio wants to cover its losses after seeing the finished product, moving it to less competitive date, or to
Young CriticThe Kid Who Would be King
Joe Cornish came out in 2011 as one of the creative minds to watch out for, with his fun directorial debut: Attack the Block . Since then the British director has only had an appearance as a writer for Marvel’s Ant-Man ,
Young CriticGlass
M. Night Shyamalan is a rollercoaster of a director. He seems to be making a comeback every two or three films only to deliver a dud or disappointment. The mastermind behind The Sixth Sense had gained some traction rece
Young CriticStan & Ollie
The world loves movie stars, and in the Golden Age of Hollywood movie stars were the name of the game. However, audiences can easily and cruelly let such stars fade away making Hollywood seem like a truly cut-throat plac
Young CriticOn the Basis of Sex
There is undoubtedly a wave of feminism that began with the revelations of producer Harvey Weinstein and the backlash of the elections of such sexist politicians like Donald Trump in the US, Jair Bolsonaro in Brasil, and
Young CriticThe Upside
I came into this movie on a holiday high of joy, coming after seeing quality award-contenders, and I came out in a storm of ire and frustration. Hollywood cannot help itself from remaking foreign-language films because o
Young CriticWildlife
It has been quite a year for actors making their directorial debuts. We’ve had the successful crop of Bradley Cooper and Jonah Hill with their respective A Star is Born and mid90s , and now we have prolific performer Pa
Young CriticDestroyer
A rumor has gone around Hollywood actresses, that in order to get awards attention you have to make yourself ugly. This seemed to be a pattern with the Oscars awarded to Charlize Theron for Monster and Halle Berry for M
Young CriticVice
Adam McKay wowed us all with his shift from Will Ferrell comedies like Anchorman and The Other Guys to an analysis of the stock market crash of 2007, seen in his 2015 film The Big Short (for which he won an Academy Awa
Young CriticIf Beale Street Could Talk
Barry Jenkins might just be the best director for romances today. That might not be the conventional thing one might hear from the Moonlight Oscar-winner, but it’s been the most powerful thing in his last two films. His
Young CriticAquaman
In a world full of superhero movies, going to see the monthly flick has become a kind of routine. We’ve been drilled with the “superhero formula” so many times that we’ve become numb to it, and yet our sense of tradition
Young CriticCold War
In order to tell an epic tale you don’t necessarily need to have a long runtime. A two hours plus movie doesn’t necessarily grant an approval of being a good film, and yet many filmmakers and Hollywood seem to think the
Young CriticThe Favourite
Yorgos Lanthimos has emerged to the English-speaking world as a savior-like director, bringing an incredibly unique style of directing and telling stories, the likes of which were unseen of since the times of Kubrick. In
Young CriticMary Queen of Scots
There is no clear-cut history; all we in the present can do is try to compile the most convincing of people’s perspectives of the period we want to study. However, it is easy to simply stand by one side’s version of even
Young CriticBumblebee
The Transformers franchise has come to symbolize a behemoth of capitalistic consumerism, with blatant branding being shown in every frame and a shameless exploitation of women as objects and explosions filling the scree
Young CriticBird Box
The horror genre has frequently brought about the boldest ideas and concepts in cinema today; largely thanks to small budgets filmmakers able to risk more with their projects. We had a groundbreaking horror film earlier
Young CriticMary Poppins Returns
It takes courage to attempt a sequel to a decades-old classic, but if you’re Disney you have the credit with viewers to try and squeeze out more money out of a franchise. Fortunately, the newest sequel from the studio we
Young CriticMortal Engines
Every year there is a huge financial flop for movie studios. Given that a new blockbuster debuts every other weekend, there’s bound to be some misses. The biggest flop of 2018 came late in the year with Mortal Engines f
Young CriticSpider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
There have been so many adaptations of the Marvel superhero Spider-Man that it’s hard to know how many different iterations we’ve seen in simply this decade. The latest adaptation is a refreshing one from producers Phil
Young CriticThe Mule
Clint Eastwood is a machine. The man as a director has made 40 films in the last 47 years, with two alone coming out this year. In the first half of the year we got the bland 15:17 to Paris which recreated the foiling o
Young CriticRoma
Alfonso Cuaron has one of the most diverse filmographies of any director working today. The Mexican auteur has produced such hits as Y Tu Mama Tambien, Children of Men, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and Gravi
Young CriticBen is Back
Julia Robert’s is the best. The American actress can rarely be seen in an unlikeable role; perhaps it’s her contagious smile, the one that lights up the entire cinema or living room where her film is being played. The ac