1. WHAT MOVIE THIS REVIEW IS ABOUT James Ponsoldt’s The End of the Tour, written by Donald Margulies, based on Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself by David Lipsky, featuring Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel. Financed by […]
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The Strawberry Criterion: Trainwreck
If it takes a kind of genius to strike gold, then consider Judd Apatow a genius. In the fifteen years since the cancellation of Freaks and Geeks, that altar before which all unduly cancelled TV shows […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Chappie
Editor’s Note: The following review of Neill Blomkamp’s Chappie was written by the fictional robotic star of Chappie, Chappie. All opinions expressed are his own. The Strawberry Criterion: Chappie Chappie good movie, no? Chappie like. Chappie seen it. […]
The Strawberry Criterion: 50 Shades of Grey
Boredom isn’t particularly titillating. If a simple imperative exists for both fucking and filmmaking, it can summarily be expressed as, “Don’t be boring.” This principle applies doubly so to making films about fucking. A great force of […]
The Strawberry Criterion: American Sniper
Editor’s Note: This review of American Sniper contains mad spoilers. Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper is a notable war film, if not for the hundreds of deaths it depicts, then for the single death it leaves out. In its dramatization […]
2014 Top Ten Lists With Zero Explanations
Top 10 Movies of 2014 1. The Grand Budapest Hotel 2. Whiplash 3. The Lego Movie 4. Obvious Child 5. Snowpiercer 6. Boyhood 7. Noah 8. Birdman 9. Edge of Tomorrow 10. Under the Skin x Top 10 TV Shows of 2014 1. Transparent, Season One […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Inherent Vice
Is genius adaptable? The answer really seems to depend on the compatibility of the geniuses in question. Even across mediums, sensibilities need to align somewhat; if not in action, then in spirit, theme, effect. A […]
Katniss Everdeen: Good Marxist?
The history of all heretofore existing Hunger Games is the history of class struggles. In the post-apocalyptic book and film series, an unfettered bourgeois ruling class known as The Capitol subjugates the larger proletariat population of […]
The Strawberry Criterion: Interstellar
Christopher Nolan has serious issues with gravity. In both senses of the word, gravity is the unifying force that holds together the dark universe of the caps-intentional Christopher Nolan Blockbuster, damning and defining his films […]
