There’s a scene at the center of A Complete Unknown good enough to justify the film’s entire existence.
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A Complete Unknown (2024)
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The Ten Commandments (1956)
“They don’t make ‘em like they used to.”
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Summer of 69 (2025)
The kids who grew up watching Disney Channel sitcoms are now old enough to be directing R-rated comedies.
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Final Destination (2000)
Final Destination doesn’t wear the iconography of a slasher.
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The Great White Silence (1924)
The doomed Terra Nova expedition for the South Pole in 1912 ranks behind only one other event, the sinking of the RMS Titanic, in the public imagination of early 20th century English tragedies.
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An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000)
There are few movies in this universe I cherish more than A Goofy Movie, so it would be easy to see how I could come into An Extremely Goofy Movie on one of two poles
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The Gorge (2025)
Today, I come to discuss a film that features two heartsick loners stuck on opposite ends of a chasm.
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Sherlock Jr. (1924)
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man who watches too many movies will be a dweeb.
After 62.5% of a season spent teasing out a labyrinthine network of connections and shady dealings between its cast, hinting at a larger agenda lurking beneath the surface of its events, S3 E6 is the episode that Gangs of London lays its cards on the table.
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Enchanted (2007)
I am not well-read on the dramatic theory of romantic comedy, but one of my beliefs as a movie lover is that the genre works best when it culminates in not just the union of two partners, but the marriage of two ideologically opposed worldviews that, against all odds, find compromise or even synthesis.