Young CriticActor Edward Norton had only directed one film, Keeping the Faith (2000), nearly two decades ago. The film flew under the radar for the most part, but it is Norton’s second film that brings about a more ambitious vision:
Young CriticRobert Eggers burst onto the filmmaking scene with his horror film The Witch (2015), which showed an incredible restraint and immersion of setting. The Sundance Best Director winner, has brought his follow up: The Lighth
Young CriticIt’s incredible to think that the figure of Harriet Tubman has not had a biographical feature film. She was one of the most important and impressive figures during 19th century America, helping lead efforts in the Underg
Young CriticThe Terminator franchise has been attempting to replicate the success both in fans’ eyes and in the studio’s bank accounts since James Cameron left the franchise in 1991. The Canadian director came up with the concepts f
Young CriticThe Harvey Weinstein scandal in 2017 sent shockwaves around Hollywood as well as the world. The allegations proved so condemning in the public eye that the Weinstein Company production company was liquidated, and its lib
Young CriticDisney has found yet another formula at milking money from the movie box office. Aside from its cash cows in Marvel, Lucasfilm, and Pixar/Disney Animation, recent years have shown that live-action remakes of their previo
Young CriticThe zombie genre has had an explosive pop-culture run in the past decade and a half. Films, comics, and especially TV, with the blockbuster The Walking Dead (2010-), have capitalized on a surprising demand for the dead.
Young CriticIt’s curious, a couple of years ago the jump from TV to film would be the sign of big things to come: bigger budget, higher audience reach, etc. However, as TV and streaming have exploded in the past five years, this jum
Young CriticAng Lee has been pushing the boundaries of cinema with his bold films for decades now. The Taiwanese-born director broke the boundaries with the most successful foreign-language film of all time Crouching Tiger, Hidden D
Young CriticAs long as there continues to be acts of domestic terrorism in Western countries, there will continue to be blame on video games, film, and music that supposedly encourage these acts. Despite statistics and psychological
Young CriticPedro Almodovar is in the rare class of directors to be in genres of their own. The Spanish auteur’ s exploration of the irrationalities of desire and how its indulgences are the most human aspects of us all, struck a ch
Young CriticThe only thing that Hollywood loves more than itself is movies made about the struggles of their industry. And yet, the Hollywood system has always been shamed for chewing up stars and spitting them out when they got tir
Young CriticThere is a subtle through-line in most of Steven Soderbergh’s films that relates to the abuse of power. This was certainly the case in Erin Brockovich (2000), Traffic (2000), The Informant! (2009), and even his Ocean’s t
Young CriticThe Spanish Civil War has been brought to screen by Spanish filmmakers innumerable times; after the return of democracy in 1977 it seemed to be a necessary atonement and exploration of a horror that still echoes 80 years
Young CriticThe audiences at Avengers: Endgame (2019) on opening weekend were nearly a show to behold themselves. Every time a beloved character was introduced onscreen or a fan-favorite moment occurred, raucous cheering, more at ho
Young CriticThe human being is a naturally social animal, needing interaction from others in order to stay sane and alive. It is fascinating, as the age of space exploration has developed, how films and art have sought to explore th
Young CriticThe Rambo film series is a curious case study of how a small and well-intentioned film, was corrupted because of its own success. The first Rambo film, First Blood (1982), took an allegorical look at the difficulties Vie
Young CriticThe stripper sub-genre in film is one that should be tread into carefully; there is a very fine line between exploiting bodies for money, and diving into a character piece. This is the difference between films like Showg
Young CriticTo capture the essence of a book in a film adaptation is always hard. Many qualify a good adaptation by how many of the book’s depictions appear on screen, few value the real strength of an adaptation in capturing the bo
Young CriticIt (2017) became the highest-grossing horror film of all time, with its clever adaptation and split of Stephen King’s 1400 page novel, and nearly $800 million at the world-wide box-office. The 2017 film only took on half
Young CriticFables are the oldest method of teaching lessons to kids and adults alike. As storytelling has developed over humanity’s existence, the art of the narrative has grown more complex with fables alongside. Teaching lessons
Young CriticIt seems to be the year of the music biopic. There has been a surge of music biopics since Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) immortalized Queen. 2019 has brought us the lives of Elton John in Rocketman (2019) and a smart and dist
Young CriticThe coming-of-age R-rated comedy is a niche film category that is slowly gaining more members. This summer alone the great Booksmart (2019) was a welcome addition, and Good Boys (2019), centering on a much younger age gr
Young CriticDeath is a difficult subject to broach, on film, in literature, or even in everyday life. It seems surprising that this aspect of life should be so dense for us, as Benjamin Franklin said, “… in this world nothing can be