One of the year’s best, Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite is an absurdly masterful dissection of division and greed, and a thunderously assorted filmgoing experience.
The Boys, Amazon's electrically hysterical and satirical series about the commercialization of superheroes, is nothing short of a smash hit. Word of mouth has obviously been a huge factor in its success, with recent data telling us that the show is more popular than every single Marvel series that's on Netflix.
Alexandre Aja’s Crawl was perhaps the biggest surprise horror hit of the summer. The aquatic scream fest, which followed a young woman (Kaya Scodelario) navigating through a Florida hurricane to rescue her father (Barry Pepper) from ferocious alligators, was a critical and commercial success. With a $13.5 million budget, Crawl went on to earn nearly $90 million around the world, as well as a more-than-healthy 82% on Rotten Tomatoes (be sure to check out our glowing review).
Unapologetically proud, QT8: The First Eight examines Tarantino from a blissful far, scratching thoughtfully and thoroughly at his creations, yet hardly scraping at the core of his creative or controversial nature.
