Tag Archives: Ethan Hawke

TV tropes continue to invade movies in ‘Leave the World Behind’

Posted on February 3, 2024 by reelentropy

Leave the World Behind opens with several shots from space, tracking the sun as it crawls across the sky over the Upper Bay, and many of its chapters start by zooming back out to space as well. At first, the … Continue reading →

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Shock-jock horror makes unwelcome return in ‘The Black Phone’

Posted on July 28, 2022 by reelentropy

2/10 The Black Phone is this year’s Malignant, and that is not a compliment. It is a bizarre, incoherent mashup of several other movies and archetypes it admires but can’t come close to imitating. As a macabre circus-freak of a … Continue reading →

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‘First Purge’ is the first great purge movie

Posted on July 30, 2018 by reelentropy

9/10 The Purge movies continue to baffle me with cultural staying power that outsizes their box office numbers. What started as a cut-rate home invasion movie with an elaborate premise has captured the American imagination, fitting like a glove onto … Continue reading →

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‘First Reformed’ a technical masterpiece

Posted on June 5, 2018 by reelentropy

9/10 First Reformed is turning heads and starting conversations, and that’s what’ll get you in the door. What’ll keep you on the edge of your seat is a textbook work of art, a film in which every frame is completely … Continue reading →

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