It was the inaugural Sunday of a weekly dorm floor movie night, and for some reason, unbeknownst to me still, my friend and I had settled on watching David Lynch’s 2001 film Mulholland Drive. Perhaps it was a sentiment of reminiscence catalyzed by David Lynch’s passing earlier this year, perhaps the fact that Mulholland Drive earned impressive second place on the New York Times Best Movies of the 21st Century List. One thing was for sure, however: it was an unforgettable firs

A full-length review of Eddington by staff writer Cyd Okum can be found here . Say you’re feeling really sick one day, so you visit the office of Dr. Alex Garland. Without much of an examination, he quickly diagnoses you with Civil War disease, and then proceeds to describe the long list of horrors you’re about to experience because of the disease. So, now that you’re totally freaked out, you ask, “Well, what can I do to stop those bad things from happening?” And he says, “I

If you’ve seen 1931’s Dracula , the basic formula of all subsequent adaptations will feel pretty familiar: Jonathan Harker, or some other pasty wimp with a similar name, helps his friendly Eastern European host buy an English home—after a bit of torture, his host sails off to England to steal his fiancée, and it’s finally up to Jonathan and scientist Van Helsing to defeat the vampire. This structure and the unnecessary foregrounding of its white-bread protagonist can start to

Across thirty years, Paul Thomas Anderson has built a technically masterful, emotionally rich filmography of ten strikingly distinct works. From morally ambiguous romances to portraits of lost men adrift in post-war America, his films probe the human condition through flawed, magnetic characters. With One Battle After Another newly released, it’s the right moment to revisit and rank PTA’s remarkable body of work.

My first month on Columbia’s campus certainly didn’t see me lost for words. Where conversations about arts and media flow like the runny vanilla milkshakes from JJ’s Place, whimsical debates could be found left and right. Without fail, those to do with film tended to share a common denominator: the gradual progression of “what’s new in theatres” to “what’s your take on Wes Anderson’s films” to “what movie did you grow up on” to Jerry Seinfeld’s Bee Movie . The Bee Movie had

This review contains spoilers. Leonardo DiCaprio in One Battle After Another (Anderson) Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another is his first movie set in the modern era, and incredibly relevant for the time. Anderson proclaims the importance of the undying spirit of revolution, even against the strongest fascist regimes, and how those who have love stand stronger and more resolute than people built around hate. It balances these ideas with thrilling action sequence

This review contains spoilers. Park Chan-wook’s newest feature film No Other Choice is a South Korean capitalist critique through a provocative lens. It follows You Man-soo (Lee Byung-hun), a “paperman” of 25 years who has been fired as a manager from his company after restructuring by the new American owners. This prompts him to plan the murders of the three other men eligible for a job opening at the successful company Moon Paper, taking them out so that he can pass the in

A scene in Luca Guadagnino’s newest feature After the Hunt rehearses a familiar confrontation. Yale professor Hank (Andrew Garfield) has been accused of sexually assaulting a student, Maggie (Ayo Edebiri). To his colleague Alma (Julia Roberts), with whom he shares a romantic past, he deploys every well-worn defense: Maggie tried to seduce him; she plagiarized, so she is now lying to discredit him. He even admits it sounds like a cliché. At this point, a quarter of the way in

Now that awards season is over, let’s discuss the imposter among a multitude of Oscar-worthy films. I’m talking about none other than Emilia Pérez , Netflix’s biggest flop. Viewers’ collective agreement that the film is garbage says enough; constantly hearing about how bad this movie is causes most people to decide against watching it. With that being said, I decided to take one for the team and watch Emilia Pérez for you. I saved you 2 hours and 12 minutes of your life. You

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