But this is still a movie that’s willing to divert to two side characters—Andrea and her son—for an extended conversation that features profundities about the nature of lying, and also fart jokes.
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SCARE SEASON: A WHITE-KNUCLE PEEK AT THE CORE AND HORROR TO COME TO HUB SCREENS THIS FALL
If you’re measuring by body count, though, the Coolidge Corner Theatre is the biggest menace of the scare season this year.
THROWING A TIFF: DISPATCH FROM THE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Here's your take on Day 1 and 2 of #TIFF
GREATEST HITS: ON ‘BLACK MASS’ AND ‘THE BLACK PANTHERS’
Black Mass is the one thing it shouldn’t be.
PEAK APU: GETTING TO KNOW THE EXEMPLARY POETRY OF THE APU TRILOGY
What it is, is cinema.
ORGANIZED INSANITY: ON THE PLEASURABLE CHAOS OF THE TWILLERAMA ANIMATION FESTIVAL
Twillerama bares its soul in the very first shot of its very first volume.
FARCE TO THE FUTURE: THREE GENERATIONS OF COMEDY FILMMAKERS RELEASE LATEST
A judge and a detective get involved as the seventh and eighth wheels, because this is that type of movie—the type of comedy they might’ve made in the ’30s, when detectives and judges were always walking into farcical scenes at the wrong time.
STRAIGHT OUTTA CORPORATE
That’s why it’s all a mixed message, one old and radical, one new and corporate-friendly—fuck tha police, yes, but buy some Beats headphones, too.
CAR WATT-AGE: THERE’S A WESTERN CHARGE TO “COP CAR”
It doesn’t matter if the shot misses its mark by a bit. You still didn’t see it coming.
RICK OF TIME: SEX, LIES, AND ROCK ‘N ROLL IN “RICKI AND THE FLASH”
Cody's script is mining laughs from the faux-pas traded between 20-somethings who care about going green and a child of the '60s who'd rather be smoking it.