Bertrand Bonello’s The Beast is, at its core, a tragedy. It’s fate weaponized; watch as these two people, whose love spans entire lifetimes, end in ruin again and again. Bonello warns the audience from the get-go, but that doesn’t make it any less soul aching.   Composed of three vignettes in…

Why does every movie released today have active contempt for their audience? Saltburn by Emerald Fennell treats its viewers as fools incapable of parsing any subtlety, and any number of action movies topping box office charts right now can be considered slop at best. There’s no sense of wonder, no…

Comparing every movie about two men in love set vaguely around farms to Brokeback Mountain feels like a cop out, but with Pedro Almodóvar’s latest English-language short Strange Way of Life, it’s impossible not to. The short is a clear reaction to his decision to turn it down almost 20…