Andrew Wyatt is a St. Louis-based writer on film art. He is the film critic for Look/Listen at St. Louis Magazine, and a member of the Online Film Critics Society and St. Louis Film Critics Associatio
Editor’s Note: This essay contains spoilers.
The most immediately impressive aspect of Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz’s
chilling feature Goodnight Mommy is how quickly the film conjures a buzzing
atmosphere of
The grotesque semi-collapse of the counterculture that had once sprung forth
from the American midcentury continues to preoccupy pundits, historians, and
artists, some four decades since its furious vibrations were reduced to mere
It’s easy to envy Adam (Tom Hiddleston) and Eve (Tilda Swinton), the reclusive,
exceedingly pale protagonists of acclaimed filmmaker Jim Jarmusch’s latest
feature, Only Lovers Left Alive. Granted, the pair is
[Note: This essay contains spoilers.]
Jonathan Glazer’s mesmerizing new feature, Under the Skin, bids the viewer to
peer through the eyes of a monster. The creature in question has assumed the
shape
Although the serial killer is a ubiquitous presence in the pop cultural
landscape, the roles that this terrifying figure is permitted play are
relatively limited. Some murderers serve as an elemental force: the
