Beau Is Afraid
Ari Aster mistakes amplitude for creative insight, inflating a slender conceit about childhood trauma into a three-hour pageant of middle-aged humiliation.
Paranoia & Conspiracies
3 Days of the Condor
3 Days of the Condor makes the government and its intelligence agencies appear as invisible forces of manipulation, untrustworthy and self-interested.
Minority Report
“You created a world without murder. And all you had to do was kill someone to do it.”
Le Corbeau
Once the letters started, everyone succumbed to the worst aspects of themselves, displaying latent capacities for evil.
Rosemary’s Baby
The devil does not have to emanate from hell and stalk you specifically; evil can live behind the face of each person you meet.