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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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‘Eileen’ Review: The year’s darkest comedy

Nick Johnston — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 19:11:36 +0000

When Ottessa Moshfegh burst onto the literary scene in 2015 with her debut novel, Eileen, readers and critics alike were enraptured by it: A pulpy coming-of-age riff full of salacious detail, ironic detachment, and bleakness. Writing in the New York Times, Lily King praised the way Moshfegh strung her sentences together (one thing I always envy about my literary brethren is that they can just straight-up pull language, at length, from the texts they’re trying to critique to the point […]

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Get ‘Locked Down’ with Anne Hathaway in this trailer

Nick Johnston — Tue, 05 Jan 2021 20:11:12 +0000

Remember a decade or two ago when everybody thought that it was too soon to make movies about national tragedies? Well, perhaps we should have listened to them at that time (well, Oliver Stone should have regardless) for two reasons: First, hindsight is a benefit to an artist — much like a YouTube commenter, being first to state a thing is often overrated and fleeting pleasure. Secondly, because we might not have been stuck with the current crop of pandemic-themed […]

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‘The Witches’ Review: A mixed cauldron

Nick Johnston — Fri, 23 Oct 2020 20:56:44 +0000

Unlike a lot of critics, I kind of admire how, post-Cast Away, Robert Zemeckis decided to devote his career to the elaborate tech-heavy construction of niche fetish objects — films that held very little satisfaction to anyone other than the person making them — even if we regularly have to suffer through them. He’s doing what George Lucas always threatened to do: Make the kind of big-budget movies that he’d always wanted to make, without regard, really, for what the […]

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Watch Anne Hathaway ham it up in ‘The Witches’ trailer

Nick Johnston — Fri, 02 Oct 2020 20:07:12 +0000

Robert Zemeckis is having an interesting year. He was the subject of the best cinematic burn in recent memory (at least since Alex Gibney fired shots at Errol Morris during The Inventor) in Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things, and now his new film, an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s story The Witches, is going to actually be hitting screens this fall. Yes, that’s right: The film, which originally was supposed to come out in theaters this month […]

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Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson are dirty rotten scoundrels in ‘The Hustle’ trailer

Nick Johnston — Tue, 12 Feb 2019 18:03:37 +0000

We’re just gonna say it: It’s probably a bad idea to remake a movie that’s as much of a stone-cold classic as Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, a personality-driven and incredibly funny film that feels almost inseparable from the work of Michael Caine and Steve Martin, its two leads. However, that film, in and of itself, was a remake — or at least an adaptation of a draft of a previously-made film — and so whatever feelings we might have about Chris […]

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‘Ocean’s 8’ Review: A good idea, tepidly executed

Nick Johnston — Wed, 06 Jun 2018 03:59:40 +0000

Has there been a director with a weirder descent into journeyman hell than Gary Ross? A former screenwriter (Big, Dave), it seemed for a brief moment — right after the release of his utterly brilliant first feature Pleasantville, which summed up so much about a particular moment in cultural history that it’s nearly a thesis on how we processed pop culture in the ’90s — that Ross might have had some true chops. Then followed the awards-baity Seabiscuit, which attracted […]

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‘Ocean’s 8’ teaser: Sandra Bullock and company rob the Met Gala

Nick Johnston — Tue, 19 Dec 2017 18:12:40 +0000

Truth be told, we don’t actually remember the last time we sat down and watched the Ocean’s Eleven movies, regardless of how much we like Steven Soderbergh’s series. However, we’re pretty interested in this new side-quel, Ocean’s 8, because of its cast. Yeah, all the leads are ladies. Yeah, people are pretty mad about that, and we’re excited to see them cry over the very definition of spilled milk. The movie looks like a lot of fun, too! That’s gotta […]

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