Tag Archives: Sinister

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

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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‘It’ is boring, racist, sexualizes minors and has a 90 percent on Rotten Tomatoes

2/10 The titular monster in It comes out of the sewer every 30 years to feed, so remaking the movie — yeah, I know the 1990 version was a “made for TV miniseries,” eat me — makes a ton of … Continue reading

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Sinister lives up to name, down to expectations

Sinister 2 is mostly exactly what you’d expect, and as a case study it may represent people finally getting tired of all these cheap, grainy horror movies. The film sets up several storylines which parallel and converge quite gracefully. In one, the … Continue reading

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The most important movies of 2014

Annual top 10 lists are stupid and easy and boring and no one likes them. On this blog, we try to track the path of movies over time, so instead of blindly stating what we liked and disliked about 2014 movies, we’re going … Continue reading

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