Screen Rats

O f the uncountable images gifted to the world by Jean-Luc Godard, the one that stands out as perhaps the most purely beautiful is the moment from Vivre Sa Vie when An…

T he year is 1995. A 26-year-old Atlanta-based stage director named Tyler Perry figures he should get some more irons in the fire while he repeatedly retools his strug…

P eter Farrelly returns to the scene of Green Book ’s triumphant world premiere with another heartwarming story of how a doofus achieved personal growth by encounterin…

T welve-year-old Tinja (Siiri Solalinna) is a young gymnast tirelessly training for an upcoming competition, but is mostly desperate to appease the impossibly high exp…

I n 1970, J.G. Ballard’s The Atrocity Exhibition was first published by Jonathan Cape in the UK. This anti-novel has had a complicated publication history: all 15 of t…

G len Powell is a cocky sumbitch. Playing with the boys in ensemble films and the girls in rom-coms, and most especially as Top Gun: Maverick ’s Hangman, he seems like…

M idway through the world premiere screening of Susie Searches, I sat as hot, electric colors slashed across the screen, as zany, canned sound effects erupted from the…

E veryone assumed that he would go on living forever: puffing on his giant stogies; wearing his shades; insouciantly shaping and re-shaping the bounds of image culture…

T here’s a modern phenomenon whereby certain a la mode young celebrities have accrued a fanbase of itinerant bobbysoxers who, with their collective power, possess the…

L ynsey (Jennifer Lawrence) is recovering from a life-changing injury – one sustained while working for the US Army Corps of Engineers. Having had to relearn skills as…

“S teven Spielberg’s cinema has made us all into children of divorce,” concluded The Baffler’s Jonathan Sturgeon in a 2017 broadside. With The Fabelmans, an avowedly a…