Anything that’s halfway interesting in Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald, the dreadfully-named sequel to the first Harry Potter prequel-spinoff Fantas...
David Fincher’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the American adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s 2005 bestseller, was most successful as a mood piece, one that provi...
The Marvel title sequence—red comic book pages flipping at high speed to reveal a corporate logo whose cultural saturation is on par with the Golden Arches—come...
In Jacques Audiard’s new film The Sisters Brothers, John C. Reilly plays Eli Sisters, a sensitive hitman and a foil to his more aggressive brother Charlie, played by Joaquin Phoenix....
A mainstay in French for almost 40 years, Jacques Audiard frequently chronicles criminals and convicts (or ex-criminals/ex-convicts) trying to either navigate a...
Vikram Murthi is a freelance writer and critic from Chicago and currently based in Brooklyn. Aside from The Film Stage, he has written for The A.V. Club, Vulture, RogerEbert.com, The Nation, Reverse Shot, and more. He will write about anything for anyone willing to pay him.
