“It isn't fair. I never had anybody but you. Not a real husband. Not even a man. Just a bad joke without a punch line.”

If I was tasked to list my ten favorite crime thrillers, this would surely land in there. Out of all the bleak entries from noir’s heyday, The Killing is one of the classics that enthralls me the most.

Thanks to crackling dialogue from pulp writer Jim Thompson, a then-experimental narrative bouncing from multiple vantages—all equally riveting—and…

Shot almost exclusively on the Cinecittà Studios soundstage in Italy, Luca Guadagnino’s Queer begins narratively straightforward á la a Call Me By Your Name type of love story. But by the end, it is much more analogous to Black Narcissus; which was similarly shot by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger on a soundstage.

I don’t think it’s coincidental that Guadagnino’s stated this is his tribute to cinema’s greatest writer-director duo, and although this was released in the same year as Challengers, this feels…

Incredibly fun and delightful to be sure, but I think we all forget how wild and ballsy some of the murder sequences in this movie happen to be.

A lot’s been written about the age gap between Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant. Yet unlike a lot of movies of hers where that was the case: a.) Grant and Hepburn actually have legitimate chemistry; the former was so worried about their age gap he advised her to appear more aggressive on…

If I had to describe Robert Pattinson’s portrayal of the Caped Crusader, imagine he riffs on Kurt Cobain as Jack Nicholson’s J.J. Gittes by way of Frank Miller’s Bruce Wayne. The moodiness of his take, as he and director Matt Reeves have almost irascibly described at length during numerous recent interviews, is more than justified upon watching this film; yet the movie has such a heart, genuine sexual chemistry and the detective aspects that have been missing from several previous…