Eve Tushnet

Eve Tushnet The Bulwark Nov 2, 2024 In the end, as with so many well-intentioned biopics, the best thing about this movie is the attention it will draw to its brilliant, visionary subject. Go to Full Review Lee (2023) 67% - -

Eve Tushnet Patheos Nov 29, 2023 If that sounds like an unexpected subject for a Scorsese flick, that's one of the movie's strengths: the moment when you realize that this story is perfect for this director. Go to Full Review Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) 93% 84%

Eve Tushnet Patheos Sep 28, 2023 Of course I loved it! Go to Full Review Bottoms (2023) 91% 89%

Eve Tushnet Patheos Sep 21, 2023 Atmospheric, but a bit empty... Go to Full Review Dark Waters (1993) 71% 54%

Eve Tushnet Patheos Sep 18, 2023 I don’t know, what can you say about Threads? I knew its reputation and it lived up to it. Go to Full Review Threads (1984) 100% 92%

Eve Tushnet Patheos Sep 18, 2023 Unfortunately the film is mostly about the gangster, who lacks Jagger’s charisma and generally is no fun. And then the self-consciously disorienting style makes it even harder to care about what is happening. Go to Full Review Performance (1970) 81% 78%

Eve Tushnet Patheos Sep 18, 2023 The fairy-tale, magical/horror elements are a little too constructive and strenuously uplifting. Go to Full Review Tigers Are Not Afraid (2017) 97% 81%

Eve Tushnet Patheos Sep 18, 2023 A slow and wrenching film which nonetheless lives up to the promise of its title. Go to Full Review A Dark Song (2016) 91% 59%

Eve Tushnet Patheos Aug 21, 2023 Candyman is perfectly shot, and its central characters are iconic. Go to Full Review Candyman (1992) 79% 63%

Eve Tushnet Patheos Aug 21, 2023 Hocus Pocus walks a fine line, where we get to enjoy witchy glee but also feel real emotions about their victims. Go to Full Review Hocus Pocus (1993) 42% 63%

Eve Tushnet Patheos Aug 21, 2023 I found it very hard to connect with the blank heroine or her generic blond doctor. Go to Full Review I Like Bats (1986) - - - -

Eve Tushnet Patheos Aug 16, 2023 I think the movie doesn’t quite know what it wants to say about the idealism driving American military action. Unsurprisingly, it also has absolutely nothing to say about internal Nicaraguan politics... Go to Full Review Walker (1987) 44% 65%

Eve Tushnet Patheos Aug 16, 2023 The action is fine–Carpenter’s good at this, it’s all brisk, just enough characterization to make these feel like people who cast real shadows but no more than that. Carpenter did the music as well, and it’s fantastic. Go to Full Review Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) 94% 80%

Eve Tushnet Patheos Aug 15, 2023 It's funny in a low-key way, and the scene with all the nobles watching the king eat or reject foods is memorable, but in the end I don't know that I needed to see this. Go to Full Review The Taking of Power by Louis XIV (1966) - - - -

Eve Tushnet Patheos Aug 15, 2023 ...it looks amazing, it is probably blasphemous, it’s in keeping with the movie’s overall fantasy of Savage Russia... Go to Full Review The Scarlet Empress (1934) 87% 85%

Eve Tushnet Patheos Jul 31, 2023 Dark Days is well-paced, knowing when to ramble and when to pull you up short. Great editing. Great choices of which stories to tell on camera. Go to Full Review Dark Days (2000) 94% 89%

Eve Tushnet Patheos Jul 31, 2023 What comes out in the storytelling is the way our actions emerge from a tangle of sympathies, personal loyalties or debts owed, preexisting relationships we take for granted, and professed ideologies. Go to Full Review The Lady and the Duke (2001) 72% 68%

Eve Tushnet Patheos Jul 31, 2023 There’s a clunkiness to the rant montage, and yet it is also so heartfelt, so loving. Go to Full Review 25th Hour (2002) 80% 85%

Eve Tushnet Patheos Jul 31, 2023 Thrillingly inventive visuals, an absolute can't-miss movie in spite of having not much to say and insisting on saying it anyway. Go to Full Review Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) 95% 45%

Eve Tushnet Patheos Jul 31, 2023 This movie is so fun, so joyful in its plunge into a stylized Black cultural world that mixes nostalgia for the bad old Blaxploitation days and hypercontemporary references, that you almost don’t notice how much Afropessimism is in its DNA. Go to Full Review They Cloned Tyrone (2023) 95% - -