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‘Marty Supreme’ Review: Josh Safdie serves up a masterpiece

Nick Johnston — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 15:13:18 +0000

If folks were disappointed that The Smashing Machine wasn’t just Uncut Gems 2: Howie Ratner Learns How to Lift, they’ll be absolutely delighted by Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme. It’s a continuation of the storytelling throughline that Safdie established with his brother Bennie in their last few films — white-knuckle insanity on the streets of New York taken to absurdist extremes, grounded in a thoroughly-brilliant performance by a uniquely-talented lead — but placed in a more-distant time period, with more textures […]

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Anne Hathaway has a hellish comeback in the ‘Mother Mary’ trailer

Nick Johnston — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 18:53:55 +0000

You have to love it when an ad campaign goes out of its way to directly disavow a director’s former work — see “This is Not a Ghost Story,” the tagline that A24 came up with for David Lowery’s Mother Mary. It’s certainly a better fit than “This is Not a Green Knight” or “This is Not a Dragon Owned by Pete” or “This Ain’t Ain’t Them Bodies Saints.” Throw a triple-X at the end of that last one, and […]

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‘Eternity’ Review: A good take on the great beyond

Nick Johnston — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 09:01:12 +0000

David Freyne’s Eternity breaks one of the cardinal rules of first-date cinema — for the love of God, unless you’re absolutely certain the person is sufficiently cool with talking about death, do not bring that subject up in your multiplex selection and, in fact, you should at all times pretend that it doesn’t exist and that you both are immortals unless you’re hot enough to get away with it — but still winds up being what I’d think of (aside […]

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Watch Charli xcx hit the road in ‘The Moment’ teaser

Nick Johnston — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 18:14:52 +0000

One aspect of her repertoire that Charli XCX really developed in 2024, her annus mirabilis, was her film career, so if you’re wondering next year why she’s suddenly in a shitload of movies, well, it’s because she was busy making them while you were trying to figure out exactly which shade of green was the most cover-accurate. She’s going to be in Gregg Araki’s I Want Your Sex, Romain Gavrais’ Sacrifice, Pete Ohs’ Eruptcja, and we’re sure that we’ve forgotten […]

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A24 serves up a new ‘Marty Supreme’ trailer

Nick Johnston — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 20:26:18 +0000

The Safdie War of 2025 has seen some interesting developments since we last wrote about the dueling A24 features dropping from the now-split pair of directors behind Uncut Gems and Good Time this year. The first of those movies, Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, got some good notices from critics (including us, and, if Nathan Fielder’s name had been attached to it as an executive producer or something, people might have been able to get what Safdie and the Rock […]

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Timothee Chalamet serves up spin in the ‘Marty Supreme’ teaser

Nick Johnston — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:48:54 +0000

So, the Safdie Brothers’ split has been about as epic as the Coen Brothers’ was, though with fewer Shakespeare adaptations and midlife crisis horndog pictures involved, and, importantly, few head-to-head matchups between the two directors in the same season. So, consider this the Godzilla v. Kong of your hypebeast A24-merch wearing cousin’s psychosphere: on one side, you have Benny Safdie with The Smashing Machine and (literal) Hollywood muscle. On the other? You have Josh Safdie’s Marty Supreme, in which Timothee […]

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Rose Byrne breaks down in the ‘If I Had Legs I’d Kick You’ trailer

Nick Johnston — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 16:37:35 +0000

One of the best films we saw at Sundance this year was Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, an incredible (and incredibly stressful) portrait of a woman on the verge of collapse. Anchored by a brilliant — and we mean brilliant — performance by Rose Byrne, this is a movie that’s both absurdly funny and deliriously upsetting, and get ready to hear the same old complaints that we heard about Uncut Gems again. Instead of sweating parlays, […]

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Elizabeth Olsen goes to the after-world in the ‘Eternity’ trailer

Nick Johnston — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 18:09:26 +0000

You know, somebody needs to do a “man on the street” bit where they go into Somerville — home of the legalized polyamorous union — and ask some of the freaky folks what they make of this trailer for David Freyne’s Eternity. We’d wager they would find it pretty silly that someone might have to choose to spend eternity — the no-shit literal fucking afterlife — with one person, but hey, if you find out that you’re trapped in a […]

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‘Eddington’ Review: Ari Aster’s grand 2020 statement says little

Nick Johnston — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 18:19:16 +0000

Ari Aster has a Multiplicity problem. It’s not that he makes movies about the same subject – a protagonist’s powerlessness to escape the fate that a conspiracy of their family or peers has planned for them — as plenty of filmmakers spend entire careers exploring a particular theme. No, it’s that, if you ignore his short format work, Hereditary was his Michael Keaton, the template from which all his other works derive their structure, and he his funding for further […]

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‘Bring Her Back’ Review: More great RackaRacka horror

Nick Johnston — Fri, 30 May 2025 17:31:00 +0000

Kudos to Danny and Michael Phillipou, the YouTubers-turned-horror-hitmakers (hereby referred to by their channel name, RackaRacka, for brevity’s sake): Despite what must have been immense pressure, they resisted the calls from producers and studio heads and didn’t jump ship to a mainstream franchise. They didn’t even shift their focus towards a specifically American story (even though they could have with those Aussie tax credits baked in). Why should they? After all, they’ve proved that audiences everywhere will flock to see […]

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