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 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 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 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 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 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
Young CriticThe culture of violence is one that is ubiquitous everywhere in the world, Kubrick himself showed the longevity of such intraspecies violence with his famous “bone” sequence in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). However, viol
Young CriticAri Aster burst onto the horror scene with Hereditary (2018), a meticulously crafted film that has been compared to The Exorcist (1973) in its craft and scares. No doubt, the American director’s second film is highly ant
Young CriticIn any artform those who play it safe and by the rules are seldom rewarded with the fame and glory that they seek. Conformists have never been the ones remembered and admired, it is the bold who make a splash in our memo
Young CriticWhen there is enough saturation in any given genre, there are attempts to experiment and spin new perspectives. Such is the case with Scream (1996) in the horror genre, or The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) with the mu
Young CriticThe John Wick films might be one of the most surprising franchises to spawn in modern history. The original 2014 film was meant as a one-off small homage to action films of yore, but the love received has spawned two seq
Young CriticIt is difficult to estimate the impact that J.R.R. Tolkien’s works have had on pop-culture. His Hobbit and Lord of the Rings books have generated a fan base and following that has allowed a film franchise to spawn as wel
Young CriticOftentimes the American remakes of foreign-language films will lose much of the magic of their source material, as American directors mime the motions of the important narrative aspects (for evidence just see this year’s
Young CriticWhenever a movie has its release date pushed back, you can already begin to smell problems. Be it because the studio wants to cover its losses after seeing the finished product, moving it to less competitive date, or to
Young CriticThe world loves movie stars, and in the Golden Age of Hollywood movie stars were the name of the game. However, audiences can easily and cruelly let such stars fade away making Hollywood seem like a truly cut-throat plac
Young CriticThere is undoubtedly a wave of feminism that began with the revelations of producer Harvey Weinstein and the backlash of the elections of such sexist politicians like Donald Trump in the US, Jair Bolsonaro in Brasil, and
Young CriticI came into this movie on a holiday high of joy, coming after seeing quality award-contenders, and I came out in a storm of ire and frustration. Hollywood cannot help itself from remaking foreign-language films because o
Young CriticIt has been quite a year for actors making their directorial debuts. We’ve had the successful crop of Bradley Cooper and Jonah Hill with their respective A Star is Born and mid90s , and now we have prolific performer Pa
Young CriticBarry Jenkins might just be the best director for romances today. That might not be the conventional thing one might hear from the Moonlight Oscar-winner, but it’s been the most powerful thing in his last two films. His
Young CriticIn order to tell an epic tale you don’t necessarily need to have a long runtime. A two hours plus movie doesn’t necessarily grant an approval of being a good film, and yet many filmmakers and Hollywood seem to think the
Young CriticYorgos Lanthimos has emerged to the English-speaking world as a savior-like director, bringing an incredibly unique style of directing and telling stories, the likes of which were unseen of since the times of Kubrick. In