by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
With its continued themes of the first two movies and character deepening, Vol. 3 feels like a true trilogy capper in the way the MCU has never actually allowed to happen before.
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Knock at the Cabin is a great entry into Shyamalan’s uneven filmography. It’s tense, scary, and provocative as long as you are willing to engage within its premise as earnestly as it is laid out.
by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, The Red Herring
The most surprising thing about Army of the Dead is how little of Snyder’s signature style comes through.
Written and directed by Drew Pearce (2018)
Starring Jodie Foster, Sofia Boutella, Sterling K. Brown, and Dave Bautista
Running time 1 hour 34 minutes
MPAA rating: R
by Deborah Krieger
Hotel Artemis would be a perfect double bill with a film like Snowpiercer. They’re both small-budget independent dystopian action films with impressively star-filled casts, wholly devoted to playing into their genres and undergirded with a sense of class consciousness. Snowpiercer is much more literal in its condemnation of economic oppression, where the surviving world’s poor are left to languish in filthy conditions at the back of the perpetually-moving train, their children stolen by the obscenely wealthy to make their lifestyles aboard the train possible. Hotel Artemis’ address of class inequality is a little more buried beneath the surface; or, rather, its decision to place the corporation controlling Los Angeles’s water supply in the role of the villain, rather than the individuals on the train in Snowpiercer, comes across as more subtle.
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