Were it not for the real-life event upon which American Animals is based, it could have easily been a typical college comedy. Its deceptively simple setup – four in-over-their-heads students plan to rob their school – sounds more like a 2000s frat movie than the unique blend of genres it turns out to be. I stress the word “blend,” because the movie is simultaneously a breezy college comedy, a heist movie, and a stranger-than-fiction docudrama. Continue reading
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The Killing of a Sacred Deer
It’s never a bad thing when a movie is hard to describe. That quality doesn’t guarantee greatness (or even goodness), but it almost always means the movie is unique in some way. The Killing of a Sacred Deer falls into this category, and I’ll do my best to review it here. Continue reading