Killers Of The Flower Moon: A Sobering, Slow-Burning American Epic

October 27, 2023 / Aaron Haughton

For his 26th feature film, Killers Of The Flower Moon, legendary director Martin Scorsese reteams with Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro and forges a tight bond with the Osage nation to respectfully and authentically tell this true story of Indigenous injustice. Based off the book of the same name by David Grann which focuses more on the investigation of the sinister murders of the Osage, Scorsese interestingly pivots the film’s focus to the love and betrayal that rests at the center of the tragic story, yielding profound and sobering results.

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Amsterdam: A Star-Studded Mess That Pales In Comparison To Other O. Russell Films

October 26, 2022 / Aaron Haughton

Writer/director David O. Russell’s latest effort, Amsterdam, is a sprawling, star-studded mess that’s too overstuffed and unwieldy to fully connect. It contains one of the year’s most impressive ensemble casts, but for all its combined star power, it sadly can’t muster up much of a charge. It’s undeniably a David O. Russell film, but it’s drained of most of the lifeblood that makes his best work compelling, charismatic, and kinetic.

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The Silent Twins: A Beautifully Shot Broad-Stroke Biopic

September 09, 2022 / Aaron Haughton

The Lure director Agnieszka Smoczyńska returns with her third feature The Silent Twins. Based on the strange and tragic lives of June and Jennifer Gibbons, the film paints a visually vivid but narratively broad portrait of its real-life figures, their voluntary silence, vibrant creativity, and eventual institutionalization.

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The Eyes Of Tammy Faye: A Kooky, Yet Conventional Biopic That's Held Up By Its Lead Performance

September 12, 2021 / Aaron Haughton

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Michael Showalter’s latest, The Eyes Of Tammy Faye, is a lightly kooky, holy rollercoaster of a biopic that’s bolstered by the commitment of its leads. Based of the 2000 documentary of the same name, the film dramatizes the well-documented life of beloved televangelists Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker, chronicling their extraordinary rise and their scandalous fall. While it proves to be fairly entertaining (mostly due to its performances), Showalter and screenwriter Abe Sylvia don’t go as far or deep as we’d hoped, culminating in a fairly conventional biopic whose story is better examined in documentary format.

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Killers Of The Flower Moon: A Sobering, Slow-Burning American Epic

Amsterdam: A Star-Studded Mess That Pales In Comparison To Other O. Russell Films

The Silent Twins: A Beautifully Shot Broad-Stroke Biopic

The Eyes Of Tammy Faye: A Kooky, Yet Conventional Biopic That's Held Up By Its Lead Performance