Young CriticSundays
Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s follow-up to Lullaby explores faith and female agency but loses its balance in the debate The struggle with one’s spirituality is a journey that all of us undergo at some point. Most of our questio
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Young CriticSpringsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere
Scott Cooper's take on the Boss is hopelessly shallow and dull The music biopic has such a staid and worn formula that it’s defining parody came out all the way back in the early 2000s with Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
Young CriticAfter the Hunt
Luca Guadagnino's latest complicates a rather simple topic Sexual assault on American college campuses is a true epidemic. According to RAINN, 1 in 4 women university students are sexually assaulted in the US. It is a st
Young CriticIt Was Just an Accident
Jafar Panahi's latest grapples with the morality of vengeance Iran is producing some of the best modern filmmakers working today, yet sadly, it is not reaping its artistic rewards. Many of these directors are choosing to
Young CriticTron: Ares
The third entry in the franchise is more style than substance Despite amassing a devoted cult following, the Tron films have never been box office hits. The first one, Tron (1982) was admired more for its daring use of c
Young CriticThe Smashing Machine
Benny Safdie's first solo directorial effort delivers Dwayne Johnson's best performance Despite bursting onto the cinematic scene with their film Good Time (2017) and gripping follow-up Uncut Gems (2019) the Safdie broth
Young CriticOne Battle After Another
Paul Thomas Anderson delivers yet another American epic To call something an “American epic” should be reserved to a text that captures the complexity, contradictions, promise, and betrayal that the idea of America entai
Young CriticRomeria
Carla Simon's third feature continues her exploration of memory What is history if not memories compiled, and what is memory, if not multiple individual narratives of singular pasts, and yet what is that individual memor