Argylle comes on the heels of his cynical, violent, goofy quasi-parody espionage franchise, Kingsman crumbling to critical and box office oblivion.
Category: Review
The King’s Man (2021)
Who, exactly, was clamoring to see Matthew Vaughn’s World War 1 movie?
Episode 4 of Gangs of London ended on a heck of a cliffhanger, with Elliot bleeding out on the Wallaces’ dining table, while an assassin embedded in the wait staff (Laura Sofia Bach) almost succeeds in gunning down Sean in his own home.
X-Men: First Class (2011)
In many ways, I’m the ideal viewer for X-Men: First Class.
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
Kingsman: The Golden Circle is demonstrably worse than Kingsman: The Secret Service, but there’s no single reason why.
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
There are plenty of directors that grow whose work grows in resonance with each release.
Something that tends to get buried in the discussions I’ve heard around Gangs of London is that it’s a videogame adaptation.
Under the Skin (2013)
I have some ambivalence towards Under the Skin, Jonathan Glazer’s third film.
Kick-Ass (2010)
Kick-Ass isn’t really one movie.
American Fiction (2023)
American Fiction, the debut film by Cord Jefferson, fills in one of my favorite niches, one that could always use more films