RATING: ★★ 1/2 Since its founding in 2013, the Warner Animation Group has found its niche in the ever-expanding world of animated children's movies as the zany, slapstick studio. While other newcomers seem eager to…
NYFF 2018, Part Five: ‘Cold War’, ‘Happy as…
From now through October, Film Misery will be covering the 56th New York Film Festival with regular dispatches on the films screened there. After starting his career with intimate, often claustrophobic relationship dramas, Polish filmmaker…
Quick Takes – 10.02.2018: ‘Crazy Rich Asians,’ ‘The…
As part of the revival of Film Misery, we are pleased to re-introduce our Quick Takes column, where each week a contributor offers an inventory of the most noteworthy movies they've watched, usually in the…
NYFF 2018, Part Four: ‘Asako I & II’,…
From now through October, Film Misery will be covering the 56th New York Film Festival with regular dispatches on the films screened there. Fireworks spark, eyes meet and two strangers kiss. That's all it takes…
NYFF 2018, Part Three: ‘Non-Fiction’, ‘Burning’, ‘Long Day’s…
From now through October, Film Misery will be covering the 56th New York Film Festival with regular dispatches on the films screened there. If it not already self-evident from the rest of his career, a…
NYFF 2018, Part Two: ‘Sorry Angel’, ‘The Other…
From now through October, Film Misery will be covering the 56th New York Film Festival with regular dispatches on the films screened there. Likely by accident, Day Two of this year's festival ended up featuring…
NYFF 2018, Part One: ‘Her Smell’, ‘Wildlife’, ‘Monrovia,…
From now through October, Film Misery will be covering the 56th New York Film Festival with regular dispatches on the films screened there. It can be hard to tell what tonal register Alex Ross Perry…
REVIEW: ‘Death Wish’ (2018)
The problem with viewing an Eli Roth film through an ideological lens is that I’ve never been fully convinced of the worth of such a reading. My scepticism began after the French publication Le Monde…
The Worst Critically-Acclaimed Films of 2017—Part II
Now that the Oscars are over, I know we're supposed to let sleeping dogs lie and put 2017 behind us, but I just had, you know, a couple more thoughts about a couple more films.…
YEAR IN REVIEW: G CLARK’S Top Films 2017
G Clark's Top Films of 2017 A good year for movies? A bad year for movies? Let me put it this way: I saw ZERO (0) ★★★★★-movies, TWO (2) ★★★★½-movies, and the only ★★★★ ones…
REVIEW: ‘Mary and the Witch’s Flower’ (2018)
The announcement that a group of animators at Studio Ghibli had broken off from the company to form their own, Studio Ponoc, came at a time when we needed hope for a brighter future, not…
REVIEW: ‘The Son of Joseph’ (2016)
‘Pretentious’ is a very dangerous word to use in criticism, if only because its true meaning has been systematically diluted. A general audience tends to use the word to describe any work of art they…
REVIEW: ‘Mudbound’ (2017)
Mudbound tells the story of two families—one black, one white—living on the same parcel of land in 1930s Mississippi. One son from each family goes off to fight in WWII; when they return, both experience…
The Worst Critically-Acclaimed Films of 2017—Part I
Let’s be honest here: Sometimes critics, as a group, lose their damn minds and rally around a work of art that isn’t really that good. When Oasis’s Be Here Now came out, music critics were…
REVIEW: ‘The Shape of Water’ (2017)
Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water is a Very Strange Film. It tells a story in the dark fantasy/science fiction realm, one that would fit quite at home in a dime store comic book,…
REVIEW: ‘BPM (Beats Per Minute)’ (2017)
Robin Campillo’s BPM (Beats Per Minute) starts with a bang. A group of protesters storm a stage and commandeer the microphone. This mystifies the speaker, stunned at having so suddenly lost control of his event. …
REVIEW: ‘Princess Cyd’ (2017)
At some point during Princess Cyd, I had to admit to myself that I simply wasn’t a fan of its director, Stephen Cone. Frankly, I hated this realisation about myself. Cone seems like a nice…
REVIEW: ‘The Disaster Artist’ (2017)
If you’ve never heard of Tommy Wiseau’s The Room, I’d love to know how this is possible. Chances are, it’s playing near you sometime soon; midnight showings happen in my city on a bi-monthly basis. …
REVIEW: ‘The Square’ (2017)
‘The Square is the most divisive film of the year!’ There: I’ve provided a nice blurb for anyone who wants it about Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or-winning film. But the blurb may not mean exactly what…