Tag Archives: A24

‘The Whale’ knows exactly what it’s doing

Posted on March 2, 2023 by reelentropy

The Whale is a difficult film to watch, not because of its heavy subject matter, but because the movie’s bad. It’s got an unconventional story structure that’s difficult to enter, it’s designed to be unpleasant, and it’s really manipulative and … Continue reading →

Posted in White Noise | Tagged A24, bisexual erasure, Brendan Fraser, Darren Aronofsky, Foxcatcher, James Gandolfini, The Menu, The Sopranos, The Whale | Leave a comment

The more things stay the same from ‘X’ to ‘Pearl’

Posted on January 3, 2023 by reelentropy

8/10 In March, A24 released writer/director/editor/producer Ti West’s X, a time capsule of a slasher film set in 1979 in which amateur pornographers run headfirst into exactly the kind of sadistic murderers who would fill the void pornography was about … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged A24, COVID-19 crisis, Mia Goth, Pearl, The Wizard of Oz, Ti West, X | Leave a comment

All the awful ‘Bodies’

Posted on October 1, 2022 by reelentropy

2/10 Bodies Bodies Bodies attempts to be insightful and fails, a movie that isn’t completely without merit, but is less interested in bringing its merits to the foreground than it is in having a good time despising itself and its … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged A shitload of Bodies is what I'm saying, A24, Bodies, Bodies Bodies, Bodies Bodies Bodies, Bodies Bodies Bodies Bodies, Bodies Bodies Bodies Bodies Bodies, Bodies Cubed, Bodies III, Bodies x3, More Bodies than you could possibly imagine, So many Bodies | 1 Comment

‘You Won’t Be Alone’ slides silently through theaters, one of year’s best

Posted on June 7, 2022 by reelentropy

9/10 You Won’t Be Alone made a little more than a quarter million in theaters, but what’s the point of writing about movies all the time if I’m not going to make time for one of the year’s best pictures. … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged A24, Focus Features, Folk horror, Goran Stolevski, Macedonian, The Witch, You Won't Be Alone | Leave a comment

‘Everything Everywhere’ closer to one thing in one place

Posted on June 6, 2022 by reelentropy

5/10 They say the two things you can’t avoid are death and taxes. Even in a movie about jumping through the multiverse, one that built an advertising campaign around introducing the concept to audiences, the characters can’t find their way … Continue reading →

Posted in Entropy | Tagged A24, COVID-19 crisis, Daniels, Doctor Strange and the Multiverse of Madness, Everything Everywhere all at Once, Ke Huy Quan, Martial Arts in a drabbier-than-you'd-expect IRS Office for about 20 minutes too long, Michelle Yeoh, Stephanie Hsu | Leave a comment