Young CriticRomances come in many colors and can be successful with any genre fusion, be it drama, comedy, or even horror. But one important thing that any romance must get is the emotional weight of its’ pair; if this core aspect f
Young CriticI’m a huge fan of Matthew McConaughey. He had a brilliant year in 2013 where three films put him on the map as a quality actor: Mud, Dallas Buyers Club, and The Wolf on Wall Street . He then had a subsequent great 2014 w
Young CriticEveryone knows McDonald’s, everyone’s probably eaten at a McDonald’s. Doesn’t matter where you are in the world, you are most likely to find the burger joint with the yellow M. The story of the gigantic corporation’s exp
Young CriticPassion projects are dangerous; because filmmakers can often lose the objective lens that they might have carried out successfully in other films. This seems to be the problem with Martin Scorcese and his decades in the
Young CriticHistorical films are incredibly important to build awareness to the general public; especially when it’s about subjects that are vague even for historians. That is the case for the subject matter of Hidden Figures . Hidd
Young CriticFamily is a value that humans all over the world seem to share. As a theme it has featured in many stories, proving to be incredibly effective at welling up emotions from any consumer. This value is again utilized in the
Young CriticBiopics 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 CriticWarren 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 CriticMel 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 CriticJeff 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 CriticOliver 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 CriticThere 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 CriticWhen 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 CriticClint 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 CriticGood “date movies” are really hard to come by nowadays. They all just end up being predictable rom-coms with overused story structures. The ‘walk and talk’ film that Richard Linklater brought about with his Before trilog
Young CriticWar is a subject that films have taken a liking to portray as either patriotic or horrible. I haven’t seen a film that has taken a different lens and portrayed war as a business. This is precisely what War Dogs does, al