Fiction

Breaking Bad
A camper, blue sky, pork pie hat, and Los Pollos Hermanos chicken. Superb casting, well written script, Dynamic connection of Jesse and his teacher.
By C. H. Richard2 years ago in Critique
Inception (Film)
Nolan intricately challenges traditional narrative boundaries. Against dream espionage, the storyline intertwines love, loss, and redemption. Its multi-layered plot, paired with cinematic visuals and an evocative soundtrack, beckons repeated viewings. Far more than just a heist narrative, it's an exploration into human consciousness, perception fragility, and the malleability of memory.
By J G2 years ago in Critique
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Rowling unveils an enchanting realm where magic and reality converge. Anchored by young Harry's transformative journey, the tale is saturated with lore, endearing characters, and ethical lessons. Beyond whimsical elements, the narrative emphasizes friendship's enduring power, valor, and the eternal battle between good and evil, resonating with readers across ages.
By J G2 years ago in Critique
Ridley Scot's Alien
No one can hear you scream in the vacuum of space. Claustrophobia in the empty void. A perfect monster hiding in the shadows. Practical effects. Disturbing androids. Corporate dystopia.
By Alexander McEvoy2 years ago in Critique
The Thing
Technically a remake of a novel adaptation, one of the greatest horror movies ever. Isolation, the dark, the unknown, paranoia, tentacled terrors out of space and time, legendary Lovecraftian body horror. Tragedy in the opening minutes.
By Alexander McEvoy2 years ago in Critique
The Master and Margarita - Critique
Bulgakov’s novel is arguably the world’s best-known work by a modern Russian writer. However, Bulgakov would have been horrified that his “novel of temptation by evil” became a mass culture commodity. He wrote it for one reader - Stalin - pleading to set free dissident writers kept in lunatic asylums.
By Lana V Lynx2 years ago in Critique
The Giver by Lois Lowry
The Giver is a great book set in a dystopian future where everyone is forced to act the same and sees in black and white. The Giver eventually gives a young boy his memories from before everything was the same. The boy revolts and wants freedom to finally be different.
By Alex H Mittelman 2 years ago in Critique
The Sandman Volume 10 - "The Wake"
The overarching storyline of The Sandman ends with the "death" of Dream of the Eternals (but I thought he was a brother to Death herself?), even though he is still undeniably present as a white, ghostly figure. Various characters, Cain and Abel, Superman and Batman, mythological gods such as the cat-headed Bast, and Wesley Dodd, the original "Sandman" from the "Golden Age of Comix" all come forward to deliver eulogies. Even Dream's ex-lovers appear in this Dreaming, having been pulled in the beginning of the book.
By Tom Baker2 years ago in Critique
Charlatan
When they get online, they look to see what they can find. Was their creativity ever there? Is it in decline? Writing isn’t hard. It comes with ease. It takes no more effort than to blow a breeze. Now we question all you’ve created. Was it yours, or just imitated?
By Atomic Historian2 years ago in Critique
50 Critics: E.T.
When Science Fiction auteur Stephen Spielberg gave us E.T. He gave us the most iconic film about Alien life ever. E.T. Is a masterpiece because it gives us a more personal look into the life of an extraterrestrial, as opposed to just the eyes of the humans who fear them.
By Joe Patterson2 years ago in Critique
50 Critics: Sister Act
In 1992 comedy queen Whoopi Goldberg once again showed off her leading lady chop in the comedy classic Sister Act. Goldberg and her co-stars do a great job at keeping audiences hooked in this habit-donning adventure about a showgirl in witness protection at a convent hiding from her violent boyfriend.
By Joe Patterson2 years ago in Critique
50 Critics: Justice League
The Justice League film from DC comics is one of the biggest examples of improperly exercised potential. Some of the film’s biggest problems are we don’t know most of its main characters and the film has a villain who doesn’t pose much of a believable threat to the film’s protagonist.
By Joe Patterson2 years ago in Critique