Clint Eastwood, star and director of The Mule
Review by Logan Kenny
Regardless of whether it is or not – I certainly hope it isn’t – this feels like the last film of Eastwood’s career. It feels like a goodbye. The film doesn’t attempt to justify him for his selfishness, nor redeem him for his failures and criminal decisions over the runtime, but rather it shows the beauty of someone trying to be better before it’s too late.
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Steve Carrell stars in director Robert Zemeckis’s Welcome to Marwen
Review by Logan Kenny
Zemeckis is more interested in coating his actors’ faces in hideous doll CGI and referencing his past works in a disorientating cluster of explosions and overpriced imagery than he is interested in reckoning with the tragedy of his protagonist.
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Rami Malek stars as Freddie Mercury in director Bryan Singer’s Bohemian Rhapsody
Review by Logan Kenny
This movie should have been something more, something uplifting and beautiful, but it is not, and all we can do is speak out about its problems together, to not stay silent.
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Matt Dillon stars in director Lars Von Trier’s The House That Jack Built
Review by Logan Kenny
Is The House That Jack Built the cinematic form of the manipulation that follows abuse? A work with the pretense of self-examination that is actually just another reminder of the pain that many women have went through? Or is it a genuine apology, a work of intense self loathing, an abuser longing with existential suffering and a desire for death because he can’t achieve the catharsis in this life anymore?
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