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A feminist Frankenstein that plays like a lost remnant of woke culture
The most impressive thing about The Bride!, Maggie Gyllenhaal's feminist revamp of The Bride of Frankenstein, is how thoroughly ill-conceived it is. This movie fails at everything. There is not a single scene, line…
From Georgia’s film subsidies to Intel’s collapse, industrial policy keeps failing
Industrial policy is failing, and not just in Washington. Across America, officials promise to engineer the right economic outcomes by intervening in the market in just the right ways. Most people know that under Presidents…
‘The Rip’ is a just-ok Miami cop thriller that’s really about Netflix
Looked at one way, The Rip is just a story about corrupt Florida cops. Loosely—very loosely—based on the true story of some Miami police officers who found a giant stash of drug money in a suburban house, The Rip takes that…
The Bone Temple’ delivers anarchy in the U.K., again
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is a movie about the devil, who just happens to be a guy named Jimmy. A direct follow-up to last year's 28 Years Later, this zombie sequel picks up where the last one left off, with a…
Hollywood vs Individualism
Many popular movies make a constructive point: If you work hard enough and push through tough times, you can achieve your dreams. In “The Pursuit of Happyness,” a struggling father tells his son, “Don’t let anyone tell you,…
‘No Other Choice’ is a dark satire of capitalism and masculinity
There's not much in the way of subtlety when it comes to the big themes of Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice. It's a movie about the soulless, zero-sum misery of late capitalism—a sharp, bleak, brutal, and…
Americans love individualism. So why does Hollywood demonize it?
Many popular movies make a constructive point: If you work hard enough and push through tough times, you can achieve your dreams. In The Pursuit of Happyness, a struggling father tells his son, "Don't let anyone…
Trump Should Seize This Opportunity to Correct His Unforced Error
I voted for Donald Trump for president three times, and would again, but his social media post about Rob Reiner after the recent killing of the leftist Hollywood actor-director was unpresidential and, to say the least,…
The haters are wrong. Netflix’s glut of Christmas movies is good, actually.
I'm not afraid to admit it: I love Christmas movies. The cheesy ones, the sentimental ones, the ones where the girl from the big city goes home for the holidays, rediscovers the true meaning of something vaguely defined,…
Fire and Ash’ is part spectacle, part retread
There are moments in Avatar: Fire and Ash when it plays like a propaganda reel for Greenpeace. Like its predecessor, Avatar: The Way of Water, the film is an eco-action flick, an environmental revenge film, in which the…
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