Young CriticLa La Land
I don’t like musicals. I find them frustrating in the sense that they break into interchangeable songs that slow down the story’s progress. There are a few exceptions, musical movies with great soundtracks: The Sound of
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Young CriticWhy Him?
Comedies are becoming more and more generic these days; it’s hard to find some original content anymore. One Christmas comedy we got this year was Why Him? an incredibly generic film with an impressive cast. Why Him? i
Young CriticSing
Music is an action that separates human beings from any other animal on our planet. The act that a different set of sounds manages to bring delight to one of our senses is something apparently other species can’t experie
Young CriticPassengers
Sony’s going through a rough patch recently, they’ve had consecutive years of blockbuster and award failures, even before the infamous Sony hack. Their latest push to break this trend is Passengers a romance in space wi
Young CriticAssassin's Creed
Video games have been trying to make the jump into the film world for the past two decades. Most attempts have been dismal, and 2016 was a particularly ambitious year as three very notable wide releases based on video ga
Young CriticCollateral Beauty
Every year there’s a Christmas ensemble film, the best of which has probably been Love Actually . This year we got Collateral Beauty , another ensemble piece about the values of life in Christmas time. Collateral Beauty
Young CriticManchester by the Sea
Casey Affleck is probably one of the most underrated actors of his generation. He is frequently overshadowed by his more commercially successful brother Ben, but when comparing the two as actors I have to side with Casey
Young CriticRogue One: A Star Wars Story
When will they make an end? How much more can you squeeze out of the original Star Wars stories? We already got three prequels, which mostly disappointed, and LucasFilm had thus intelligently decided to move forwards in
Young CriticMiss Sloane
I have a soft spot for political dramas. Not only because I have keen interest into the subject of politics itself, but also because political films tend to treat the audience as intelligent and they save themselves any
Young CriticOffice Christmas Party
While this film was marketed more or less as a Christmas movie (given the title) it is definitely much more of a party movie than anything else. And while party movies aren’t narrative geniuses, they are undeniably fun.
Young CriticNocturnal Animals
Tom Ford has dazzled us all with his career. From exiting a reformed Gucci to making his own successful clothing brand: Tom Ford, the fashion mogul has recently been shifting into film. His first directorial effort was t
Young CriticJackie
Biopics or historical dramas tend to focus on a highlight in the lives of their protagonists. Rarely do we see a film that decides to look at all the space between the famous events. Jackie is one of those brave films; i
Young CriticMoana
Disney has had a quite a run with its animated division. Both Pixar and Disney Animation Studios have been delivering successful hits for more than half a decade, ushering maybe a third Golden Age of animation. With each
Young CriticAllied
What a dud. This film had a lot going for it: two great A-list actors in the lead roles, an incredible visionary director, and a premise that, although overused in Hollywood, is nevertheless always intriguing. So how the
Young CriticRules Don't Apply
Warren Beatty is one of the few Hollywood artists that are able to multitask so many jobs in a single film. He’s know to write, direct, produce, and act in many of his own passion projects, but he’s been absent from the
Young CriticFantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
First of all I have to confess I could not be a bigger Harry Potter fan, but I will do my best and appear unbiased when reviewing the newest installment in the Wizarding World: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. F
Young CriticMoonlight
Boyhood was one of the best films of the past few years; it took such a simple look at the life of a kid through his maturing years. However, something that was overlooked in all the praise for the film, was that it onl
Young CriticThe Edge of Seventeen
Great high school movies have been hard to come by, and people have longed for the John Hughes films that so properly embodied the feeling of puberty. But the problem hasn’t been so much with the quality of today’s high
Young CriticBleed for This
Boxing movies have been basically burnt out. There was a golden period in time when Rocky and Raging Bull came out, but after their great success everyone instantly began to copy them. There’s been more than fair share o
Young CriticArrival
Aliens are really hard to render onscreen because they carry such high expectations from the audience. Canadian director Dennis Villeneuve decided to tackle this hard subject with his latest film: Arrival . Arrival cent
Young CriticHacksaw Ridge
Mel Gibson is undoubtedly a better director than he is an actor. His two most respected films, in my opinion, while on the director’s chair are Braveheart and The Passion of the Christ ; two films heavily infused with g
Young CriticDoctor Strange
Marvel is becoming a world power within Hollywood itself. It’s snagging up A-list talent left and right for the best and for the worst. Its Marvel Cinematic Universe idea has been snagged up by other studios (notably DC
Young CriticLoving
Jeff Nichols is quickly becoming one of the best directors to make movies about America. I’m not talking about New York or LA, but of the deep America that rarely gets shown onscreen. His films range from Take Shelter
Young CriticInferno
Tom Hanks has showed countless times that he can helm a film entirely by himself. He’s also still a box office success, especially after the sleeper hit Sully which crossed $100 million domestically and is still countin