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Filtering by Tag: Washington City Paper
Timothée Chalamet and Denis Villeneuve on location on Arrakis. (Niko Tavernise)
I feel better about my headline than I do about “the sandworm has turned.” Reviewed for WCP.
I reviewed Argylle, the latest, longest, most tiresome, and most meta of Matthew Vaughn’s meta action comedies. For my sins.
Wherein a reflection on the 1989 film Batman and composer Danny Elfman’s substantial contribution thereunto belatedly attempts to reckon with two sexual assault claims filed against him. I don’t think Elfman is an ideal subject through which to continue the eternal can-one-separate-the-art-from-the-artist debate for many reasons, but I was asked to reframe the piece that way. I hope that some of what was initially fun about it survives.
Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal venture out into the world. (Parisa Taghizadeh/Searchlight Pictures)
I didn’t get to see Andrew Haigh’s All of Us Strangers at a festival or an advance screening last year, so I’m calling it the first great movie of 2024. My Washington City Paper review is here.
Sandra Hüller has a dream house next to hell in The Zone of Interest. (A24)
Jonathan Glazer’s Under the Skin was my favorite film of 2014 (though it was released outside of the U.S. a year earlier). My review of his even-more-challenging follow-up, The Zone of Interest, is here. I wrote, erroneously, that the movie was in black-and-white. It’s not, but monochrome was how I remembered it. That’s definitely the strangest mistake I’ve ever made in (digital) print.
Emma Stone and Mark Ruffalo in Poor Things.
My Washington City Paper review of Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, one of 2023’s most rewarding films, is here.
Once more into the breach. (Apple)
Sir Ridley Scott, the tireless 85-year-old director of two sci-fi landmarks, a classic feminist road movie, one Best Picture-winning epic and a lot of other stuff, has notched another middling megaproduction with Napoleon. My Washington City Paper review is here.
Greg Alverez Reid and Marquis D. Gibson as a kingslayer and his nephew in Fat Ham. (Margot Schulman)
My City Paper review of Studio’s production of Fat Ham, James Ijames’ Pulitzer-winning Hamlet rewrite, is here. You can also read my profile of the playwright from last May.
