TIFF Journal: Bad Education (2019)
Director Cory Finley takes the good will from his 2017 debut Thoroughbreds and ups the ante even further. Bad Education is a bleak, comical, and surprisingly effective film about a high school finance scandal.
Director Cory Finley takes the good will from his 2017 debut Thoroughbreds and ups the ante even further. Bad Education is a bleak, comical, and surprisingly effective film about a high school finance scandal.
With well-established source material and a pedigreed duo of directors, The Addams Family should have been an easy win. Somehow, it never comes together into a coherent family film.
Ma is a rare gem of a horror film. Its cast is award-winning and its premise is promising, but despite this pedigree it never takes itself too seriously.
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Ever since she stole ‘Bridesmaids’ away from a cast too good for that to be easy, Hollywood has struggled to find a movie worthy of Melissa McCarthy’s sudden stardom. After a bunch of financially successful but n...
If ‘Bad Words’ had been released in the early 1990s starring Bill Murray, it probably would have been a big mainstream hit. Twenty years later starring and directed by Jason Bateman, it’s now a small indie that s...
Hot off their Oscar win for ‘The Descendants‘, screenwriters Jim Rash and Nat Faxon hop into the director’s chair for the first time with the incredible summer flick ‘The Way, Way Back’. The comedy du...
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