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A Time to Kill 1996
Back in 1996, this played like gangbusters, a rabble-rousing hit that brought the masses to their feet. Now, it just looks broad, crass, and immensely pronlematic. In a way, that's kind of reassuring - whilst I'm sure that everybody involved in 'A Time To Kill' was operating with the best of intentions, in 2023 we've evolved to the point where good intentions alone aren't enough, and where we can recognise in hindsight that this material and this story needed a…
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The Village 2004
Back in 2004, 'The Village' seemed to mark the point where the tide started to turn on the whole M. Night Shyamlan phenomenon. Up until then, the press-anointed 'new Spielberg' still had the goodwill of critics and moviegoers largely on his side. 'The Village', through some of its distinctly wackadoo structural decisions and storytelling choices, led many to question whether or not this newly-minted Golden Boy was all he was cracked up to be (seriously, go and read Roger Ebert's…
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Big Daddy 1999
There's an interview that's well worth seeking out between Paul Thomas Anderson and the much-missed Roger Ebert. In it, Anderson mounts a spirited defence of Adam Sandler and his comedy filmography to a sceptical and disbelieving Ebert. 'If I'm feeling down and need cheering up on a Saturday night, I'm gonna put on an Adam Sandler movie' starts Anderson. "That wouldn't cheer me up', sniffs Ebert. Anderson goes on to draw a parallel between the sheer sense of joy and…
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Oppenheimer 2023
Christopher Nolan is, as we all know, fond of non-linear modes of storytelling, but, apart from 'Oppenheimer's many other accomplishments, with this movie he's also achieved his most audacious chronology-bending result to date - 'Oppenheimer' has now retrospectively made 'Tenet' into a much better film. Previously 'Tenet' felt rote and secondhand, like a wannabe trying to make their folk-image of a 'Christopher Nolan Movie' rather than it simply being a Christopher Nolan movie. But now, 'Tenet' looks like a fascinating…
