Category Archives: Entropy

Condescending, deliriously risk-averse ‘Digger’ dead on arrival

Posted on October 15, 2026 by reelentropy

Writer/director/producer Alejandro G. Iñárritu is back with Digger, the exact kind of smarter-than-you, self-congratulatory arthouse colonoscopy that it claims within the runtime to rail against. This is the emptiest film of the year, and I can’t remember ever wanting to … Continue reading →

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‘Primetime’ is prime big-screen viewing

Posted on October 8, 2026 by reelentropy

Primetime is a dim light cast on a past that is not the past, an engine-bay window into the feedback loop between crime and spectacle that has turned American democracy into a mulch of atrocities that are at once increasingly … Continue reading →

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Cregger’s spectacular ‘Resident Evil’ is the new template for video game movies

Posted on September 19, 2026 by reelentropy

I’m on record for needing more out of writer/director/producer Zach Cregger, and here it is! Resident Evil is the kind of film that silences any doubts about a creator, a straightforward, thoroughly satisfying thriller that demonstrates mastery over not only … Continue reading →

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Nolan brings recent hot streak home in ‘Odyssey’

Posted on July 17, 2026 by reelentropy

As if a vison from the gods themselves, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey has made landfall, a moment in some ways 25 years, in other ways 2,500 years, in the making. Somewhere in the Mediterranean Sea, 12th Century B.C.- 20 years … Continue reading →

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‘Carolina Caroline’ and that magical indie feeling

Posted on June 8, 2026 by reelentropy

Carolina Caroline, a Southern Gothic erotic crime thriller that’s emerged into the summer dumping grounds of TIFF ’25 onto a very small number of screens, feels ripped from the Classical Hollywood era and re-equipped with modern tools and modern sensibilities … Continue reading →

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