Review: Rogers Park
Reviewed by Andrew Wright for The Stranger The smaller the scale of a portrait, the more the individual brush strokes tend to matter. The finely tuned relationship drama Rogers Park successfully...
View ArticleReview: Avengers: Infinity War (1)
Reviewed by Andrew Wright for The Stranger So it’s finally here, and it’s goddamned enormous. Avengers: Infinity War, Marvel’s attempt to put an exploding bow on 10 years of corporate synergy, is a...
View ArticleUnforced Perspective: ‘Ant-Man and The Wasp’
At a time when comic book movies were steadily cranking up the Sturm und Drang, 2015’s Ant-Man served as an amiably slouching alternative, gently snarking at superheroic conventions while still staying...
View ArticlePerpetual Motion: ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’
The greatest action movies—the ones that can make you feel like simultaneously applauding and waving a lighter in the theater—tend to be those most adept at seemingly losing control, somehow...
View ArticleParallax View’s Best of 2018
Welcome 2019 with one last look back at the best releases of 2018, as seen by the Parallax View contributors and friends and a few special invitations. Sean Axmaker 1. First Reformed2. The Rider3....
View ArticleUneven Beams: ‘Captain Marvel’
Saluting a megalithic juggernaut for taking risks is a bit of a mug’s game, but the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been in a winningly funky mood lately, alternating the large-scale Sturm and Drang of...
View ArticleHigh Life: Harsh Mistress
The Final Frontier has received any number of varied cinematic treatments over the years, ranging from a Kubrickian adherence to physics, to full-on Road Runnerish refusals to honor the laws of...
View ArticleNuff Said: ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Nails the Dismount
Sealing the Deal tends to take low priority in the movies these days, with measured resolutions and logical endpoints largely phased out in favor of open-ended tosses to various cinematic universes....
View ArticleImplosion Round: ‘John Wick: Chapter 3’ Pushes it to the Limit
Video game designers often rhapsodize about Core Loops, those small, quickly repeatable moments of coolness that can keep players glued to the controller past the point of thumb-trauma. 2014’s John...
View ArticleForced Closure: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
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