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
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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
Young CriticJack Reacher: Never Go Back
There’s such an obsession in Hollywood with creating franchises, it’s the ideal lifeblood for any studio, to have a movie out every one or two years that is a guarantee of revenue. Unfortunately, Hollywood, you can’t for
Young CriticSnowden
Oliver Stone always likes to put the American government in an uncomfortable position. It is therefore not a surprise that the subject of his newest film is Edward Snowden, the American whistleblower that leaked thousand
Young CriticThe Accountant
Gavin O’Connor has had a recent slump with his film slate. He was made famous for his great boxing film Warrior in 2011. This year he had two films come out, a western with Natalie Portman called Jane Got A Gun , which
Young CriticThe Girl on the Train
Alcoholic women in film are usually portrayed as playful or clumsy; in general Hollywood has had a set image of how drunk men and drunk women should look and be distinguished from one another. I was therefore very surpri
Young CriticThe Birth of a Nation (2016)
There is a very important debate in the art world, where people question whether to separate the art from the artist. The Birth of the Nation is Nate Parker’s pet project that looks into Nat Turner’s slave rebellion in
Young CriticDeepwater Horizon
Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg have struck an incredibly productive partnership. The director and the movie star have collaborated on two previous projects, one was the war film Lone Survivor in 2013, and they also both p
Young CriticMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Tim Burton has been criticized for hitting a bit of a roadblock in his directing choices recently. I really enjoyed his last film Big Eyes; it was a noble effort of restraining his abstract manner and returning to a simp
Young CriticQueen of Katwe
When portraying the third world in films, it is usually common for there to be a lens of pity, so that us sitting comfortably in front of our screens can feel bad about our wealth. It is rare that we see an honest film t
Young CriticStorks
The animation genre is being increasingly delved into, and it’s proving to be a monetary and creative goldmine. Many studios have created new branches solely focused on animation. Universal was successful with its Illumi
Young CriticThe Magnificent Seven (2016)
Remakes are about half of the movies playing in cinemas today. It seems as though there’s been a sudden drought of original content as screenwriters have migrated to television. Fortunately a remake doesn’t always mean a
Young CriticSully
Clint Eastwood is known for taking on very heroic stories and managing to weave out of many possible cheesy outcomes and delivering a subtle and moving film. His paring with Tom Hanks – one of the greatest actors of all
Young CriticThe Light Between Oceans
Romance films haven’t really been all that successful recently, at least not in the critical mind. The latest romance film with the potential of breaking this trend is The Light Between Oceans , which compiled a great cr