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The most important movies of 2015

Posted on January 4, 2016 by reelentropy

Annual top 10 lists are stupid, lame and wrong. They’re easy to write, boring to read and represent everything wrong with modern film criticism. At this site, we aspire to track the progress of movies over time, so instead of … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged #50 shades of grey, #A24 films, #Age of Ultron, #Alicia Vikander, #avatar, #beasts of no nation, #china all the time, #chris pratt, #dakota johnson, #DC comics, #Disney, #domhnall gleeson, #el james, #ex machina, #Fantastic Four, #furious 7, #fury road, #glorious 70 mm, #green lantern, #i love china, #inside out, #it follows, #jamie dorman, #josh trank, #judgment day, #jurassic world, #lionsgate, #mad max, #marvel comics, #marvel studios, #metropolis, #michael b jordan, #minions, #mission: impossible, #mockingjay, #Netflix, #Oscar Isaac, #parks and recreation, #pirates of the caribbean, #pixar, #prattprattpratt, #quentin tarantino, #sam taylor-johnson, #spectre, #star wars, #straight outta compton, #terminator 2, #the force awakens, #the hateful eight, #the hobbit, #the hunger games, #the martian, #the matrix, #the visit, #universal pictures, #venice film festival, #war room, #warner bros., Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel, The Avengers, Transformers | 1 Comment

Hateful Eight the most distinctly Tarantino movie yet

Posted on January 1, 2016 by reelentropy

The Hateful Eight is a double-edged sword. Everything to like about it is also something to dislike. The film is a bottle movie, with eight — nine, including the carriage driver — strangers snowed into a lonely coffee shop a few … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #bruce dern, #demian bichir, #django unchained, #jennifer jason leigh, #kurt russell, #michael madsen, #open bar review, #pulp fiction, #quinten tarantino, #reservoir dogs, #samuel l jackson, #the hateful eight, #tim roth, #walton goggins | 1 Comment

Point Break rewards patience with potent second half, stunts

Posted on December 31, 2015 by reelentropy

The worst reviewed movie of 2015, bizarrely, is the most impressive of the year’s Christmas Day releases. Point Break follows Johnny “Utah” Brigham, a provisional FBI agent and former motorcross star who retired after a close friend, Jeff (Max Theriot), died … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #edgar ramirez, #keanu reeves, #luke bracey, #point break, #ray winstone, #utah | Leave a comment

Concu– CTE movie encourages brain health by putting viewers to sleep

Posted on December 30, 2015 by reelentropy

The new movie Concussion isn’t about concussions at all, but about the discovery of chronic traumatic encephalopathy, an entirely different brain disease. It is the opinion of this publication that misnaming the movie is a deceitful, underhanded attempt by the producers to … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #albert brooks, #alec baldwin, #concussion, #CTE, #gugu mbatha-raw, #NFL, #peter landesman, #stalking, #will smith | Leave a comment

Joy sunk by baffling editing

Posted on December 27, 2015 by reelentropy

Editing in movies is a defensive job — if it’s done well, you don’t notice, but if you do notice, it’s because something went wrong, and something went very badly wrong with Joy. The movie is a biopic — it’s not … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged #20th Century Fox, #american hustle, #citizen kane, #david o russell, #jennifer lawrence, #joy mangano, #miracle mop, #robert de niro, #steve jobs, #the hunger games, bradley cooper | Leave a comment