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THE ORDER Review: Extremely Standard, Extremely Well Done
Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan, and Jurnee Smollet star; Justin Kurzel directs.
JUROR #2 Review: Legal Drama, By the Numbers
Directed by Clint Eastwood, the film stars Nicholas Hoult, Toni Collette, J.K. Simmons, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris Messina, Gabriel Basso, Zoey Deutch, Cedric Yarbrough, Leslie Bibb, Amy Aquino, and Adrienne C. Moore.
Friday One Sheet: THE ORDER
I am generally indifferent to collage style posters, particularly when designers transitioned from hand-painted to photoshop. However, I do admire the commitment to verticality taken by design house, Fable, for Justin Kurzel's neo-nazi procedural, The Order. The pull quotes, the above...
RENFIELD Review: A Very Fun Concept Stretched a Little Too Thin
Nicholas Hoult, Nicolas Cage and Awkwafina star in a comedic interpretation of the famed characters.
Review: THE MENU Expertly Balances Humor and Horror
Hungry for social satire? The Menu is pretty palatable. It follows other recent films pitting the rich against the poor: Ready or Not (2019), The Platform (2019), and Triangle of Sadness (2022) are three examples that do it well. If...
Review: THOSE WHO WISH ME DEAD, Angelina Jolie, Eternal Movie Star
Angelina Jolie stars in an action-thriller, directed by Taylor Sheridan, now in theaters and streaming on HBO Max in the U.S.
Fest News: THE BANKER Pulled From World Premiere Slot at AFI Fest
Set to enjoy its world premiere at AFI Fest in Los Angeles tonight, The Banker has been pushed to the back of the line. Apple's first major feature film release, The Banker tells the real-life story of two African-American entrepreneurs...
Review: DARK PHOENIX, Lightly Entertaining
Sophie Turner is the focus of Simon Kinberg's directorial debut as the X-Men saga comes to a conclusion (again).
Review: TOLKIEN, Portrait of a Slowly Boring Talent
Nicholas Hoult stars with Lily Collins in a biographical drama about the writer's younger years, directed by Dome Karukoski.
Review: THE FAVOURITE, Alternative, Off-Beat British Satire
Yorgos Lanthimos, the lauded king of Greek New Wave, seems to be having an indisputable renaissance since he has fallen in with British production company Film4. It may be sad that the director has since struggled to secure financing in...
Venice 2018 Review: THE FAVOURITE, Lanthimos' Sassy, Fresh Period Comedy
Emma Stone, Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz star in the latest film by Yorgos Lanthimos.
Review: In EQUALS, Emotions Are Discovered (Again)
In the future envisioned in Equals, it is as if Jony Ive ended debates on industrial design and all we are left with is Apple monoculture. Everything is white and smooth surfaced. The architecture is soothingly clean concrete. The film opens...
Review: In X-MEN: APOCALYPSE, Greed Is God
The 1980s are back whether we like it or not. Like Zack Snyder's Watchmen before it, X-Men: Apocalypse adapts mainstream super hero comic book material from the eighties as taking place then. Like that film, it tries hard, but remains...
THE REVENANT And MAD MAX Win Big At BAFTAs
The Revenant continued its run of award-winning form last night, bagging five awards at the BAFTAs in London. In addition to being named Best Film, director Alejandro Inarritu and star Leonardo DiCaprio were also honoured. The film, which also collected...
Trailer: Sex Finds A Way In The Future Dystopia of EQUALS
A future-set love story in a world where emotions have been eradicated, Nicolas Hoult and Kristen Stewart participate in the long tradition of this idea in the history of pop literature, and cinema, from the big dumb action of The...
X-MEN: APOCALYPSE Trailer Teases Massive Scale Mutant Action
It's back to the past for the latest of Bryan Singer's X-Men adventures with James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender et al donning the suits for X-Men: Apocalypse. And while the titular Apocalypse himself continues to look far more silly than threatening...
MAD MAX: FURY ROAD Tops Online Critics Awards
George Miller's action epic continues to pick up steam in awards season as it was named Best Film of 2015 today by the Online Film Critics Society, of which a number of ScreenAnarchy's contributors are members. Miller also nabbed the...
Toronto 2015 Review: EQUALS, A Romantic LOGAN'S RUN For Millennials
In the future envisioned in Equals, it is as if Jony Ive ended debates on industrial design and all we are left with is Apple monoculture. Everything is white and smooth surfaced. The architecture is soothingly clean concrete. The film opens with...
Fantasia 2015 Review: DARK PLACES, An Affecting Autopsy Of The 1980s Satanic Panic
1985. In a rural community of Kansas there was a young teenager named Ben Day (Tye Sheridan channelling Ezra Miller) who was very into the punk rock outfit The Misfits. He filled his sketchbooks with black-inked antichrist art, and was accused...
Screen Anarchy's Top 10 Movies Of The First Half Of 2015
As mentioned before, the year 2015 is moving on with breakneck speed, it seems. Currently we're already at the halfway point, and can look back at what's been a pretty surprising cinematic six months. So we asked ourselves what we...
