I know I wasn’t the only one who thought Anne Helen Petersen’s Buzzfeed article “Ten Long Years of Trying to Make Armie Hammer Happen” seemed a little extra nasty, if not entirely inaccurate. The piece argued that the only reason Armie Hammer still has a high-profile career is that he’s exactly the sort of rich, bland, white, patrician man ...

Here is my first (but not main) problem with Darkest Hour, a film about Winston Churchill pulling Great Britain from the brink of disaster in the early days of World War II: It’s too long. Everything the film has to say could have been easily and neatly packed into 80 brisk minutes. We would see the unstoppable Nazis and Great ...

It sounded crazy: Mere weeks away from the release of All the Money in the World, director Ridley Scott decided to erase every trace of Kevin Spacey from his movie following disturbing allegations of that actor’s sexual assault and harassment. Scott quickly refilmed large sections with Christopher Plummer, who replaced Spacey in the role of J. Paul Getty, founder of ...

After writing several wordy screen plays and a few endearingly verbose TV shows, Aaron Sorkin sits down in the director’s chair with Molly’s Game, a fact-based story that is every inch An Aaron Sorkin Film. Walking and talking? Earnest speeches? Social justice? Daddy issues? You bet! This uneven but entertaining lark comes from a 2014 memoir by Molly Bloom (played ...

The Pitch Perfect universe feels like a 1989-era Taylor Swift Instagram experience, before she deleted all her ‘grams to get all self-serious and boring. It’s a shiny, flawless, and highly-edited world of pretty girls having curated fun, and if I could live in it, you bet your ass I would, because it is a delightful land to inhabit for a ...

In Downsizing, Alexander Payne’s big idea is to try to treat his film’s title as literally as possible, positing a world where a Norwegian scientist has invented a shrink ray that can reduce organic matter to a thousandth of its original size. Why? Well, since we can’t enlarge the earth and its finite resources, maybe we can shrink ourselves to ...