The Mastermind, celebrating its New York premiere at the 63rd New York Film Festival, had all the makings of excellence purely upon its announcement. A 70s-set heist film starring Josh O’Connor? The autumnal Northeast American landscape serves as its backdrop? That’s what the movies are all about. Should the film solely have delivered the promise […]
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THE SUBSTANCE: Another Masterful Genre Exercise From Coralie Fargeat
Many of the most acclaimed bedtime fables are anything but subtle; and there’s a good reason for that. After all, the story in question exists as a means to deliver a moral or a value to its audience. The same can be said about cautionary sci-fi tales. Even many of the greatest genre movies around […]