The Janus-like split down the movie’s middle — between genre affect and mundane substance — gives it a puzzling integrity; you can’t say the movie isn’t committed to this man and this pig

That the Purge films were proudly political from the outset doesn’t make the dynamic easier to parse. What exact sociopolitical postures or functions are being skewered remains a Rorschachian question.

The film arose from a failed plot to dig up the grave of psycho-killer Ed Gein's mother

Jean-Pierre Melville's thieves and crooks and nowhere men are all resigned to their dooms, and never see any reason to get upset about it

The familiar-face cast has a collective century of comic seasoning, from CollegeHumor to SNL to Veep to Glee to Drunk History

Bundy's strange performative psychopathy was a kind of a complex acting job all its own, devious and untrustworthy but always played in the key of Watch Me.

A rare thing these days: an unstable experiment, a pro-am comedy of menace and uncertainty that inhabits a New York two degrees off from any we’d recognize.

"We are vacationing in Indiestan, the canton within Filmmakingland where you go to see the struggle, the hope, the measured ambitions, the hearts on the sleeves."

The absurd spectacle of millions mourning the murderer of millions

King Hu’s 'Raining in the Mountain' is now getting time on an analog screen, in front of an analog audience, where it belongs.