Young CriticThe Mule
Clint Eastwood is a machine. The man as a director has made 40 films in the last 47 years, with two alone coming out this year. In the first half of the year we got the bland 15:17 to Paris which recreated the foiling o
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Young CriticWidows
The marketing of a film is a crucial aspect of filmmaking that is usually glossed over. The expectations for any upcoming release are all thanks to the way posters and trailers are created. Widows is director/writer Ste
Young CriticThe Girl in the Spider's Web
Lisbeth Salander is one of the few modern-day realist superheroes. The literary character, created by the late Stieg Larsson, has become a beacon for both female empowerment, as well as a voice and rage for introverts. A
Young CriticBad Times at the El Royale
Drew Goddard has found a career as a screenwriter, delivering some delightful hits of the last decade, such as The Martian , Cloverfield , and World War Z . He’s also had success co-creating such hit TV shows as Alias, L
Young CriticMission: Impossible - Fallout
Tom Cruise is one of the few actors who has managed to retain his star power across decades. From Top Gun to the ongoing Mission: Impossible franchise, there's nearly a 30-year span—and yet the number-one movie at the
Young CriticUpgrade
Revenge-story films tend to keep things simple, one traumatic experience at the beginning of the movie and then a gore fest follows. When executed right, we get entertaining and beautiful films like John Wick or Kill Bil
Young CriticA Quiet Place
The film market has grown continuously throughout the years; with new markets growing outside of the west (China, the Middle East, South America) this trend doesn’t seem like it’s going to change very soon, but in the we
Young CriticUnsane
To set a film at a psychiatric ward is every screenwriter’s dream, it allows for much deception to come from anything being shown on screen; can the audience trust their narrator and what they’re seeing? It’s also a sett
Young CriticRed Sparrow
Spy movies have devolved today to either acknowledging the campy movies of the past ( Kingsman ) or simply bringing us some over-the-top action sequences no one could possibly believe (James Bond). It’s rare that we have
Young CriticPhantom Thread
Director Paul Thomas Anderson films usually walk a fine line between unusual storytelling and a more calculated slow burn. He’s always been in danger of losing this dangerous balance, but his filmography has usually prod
Young CriticMurder on the Orient Express (2017)
Kenneth Branagh has always been a fan of classics. His career has been littered early on by Shakespeare productions both on the stage and on the screen, and his directing career has taken him to adaptations of classic st
Young CriticGood Time
Robert Pattinson had a rocket start to his acting career. He first starred in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire and was cast as the co-lead in the Twilight franchise. However, like his other Twilight co-star Kristen S
Young CriticWind River
Taylor Sheridan has been on a roll. His last two screenplays where greatly acclaimed: Sicario and Hell or Highwater (the latter for which he was nominated for an Oscar). The screenwriter (and occasional actor) has final
Young CriticThe Beguiled (2017)
Sofia Coppola is one of the most tonally distinct directors of today. Her first crop of films were incredibly original ( The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation ), and while her latest films ( The Bling Ring ) were equa
Young CriticThe Book of Henry
Child-actors are becoming rare in modern times, mostly due to stricter union rules, but also because of the awareness of how fame ruins childhoods. However, we’ve had a recent batch of great young actors, the two most pr
Young CriticMy Cousin Rachel
Let’s face it: Victorian era stories and films aren’t for everybody. It takes a lot of stamina to get through a Jane Austen novel or one of its film adaptations. Nevertheless, for those that do find the strength, the gen
Young CriticLife
Space thrillers are always a good time, essentially because the feeling of isolation always works in building suspense. Life is pitched as a thriller but it ends up being more of a horror gore-fest… unfortunately. Life
Young CriticSplit
The only thing that people love more than building up heroes is tearing them down. Director M. Night Shyamalan was destined by many in the late 90s to early 2000s to become the next Spielberg after successes with The Six
Young CriticNocturnal Animals
Tom Ford has dazzled us all with his career. From exiting a reformed Gucci to making his own successful clothing brand: Tom Ford, the fashion mogul has recently been shifting into film. His first directorial effort was t
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