
Alison Willmore
Film Critic at Vulture
Film Critic at New York Magazine
Film critic at @Vulture/@NYMag. Not on here anymore.
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1 week ago |
vulture.com | Alison Willmore
Pixar’s latest is a movie about learning we’re not alone in the universe that nevertheless has trouble opening up its main character. Elio is about an orphaned kid who dreams about escaping from his lonely life into space, only to succeed in actually getting whisked away by aliens who are under the mistaken impression that he’s the leader of Earth and can make the case for his planet to join their confederation.
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2 weeks ago |
vulture.com | Chris Stanton |Joe Reid |Rebecca Alter |Alison Willmore
Displaying all articles tagged: endings June 13, 2025 Offering an optimistic ending to a terrible guy almost literally tears the new Wes Anderson film apart in its final stretch. vulture lists June 12, 2025 Including voice performances and narrators but excluding Mordecai the falcon. encounter June 3, 2025 The actor was made for the Wes Anderson cinematic universe. Finally, he joins it in The Phoenician Scheme.
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2 weeks ago |
vulture.com | Alison Willmore
Sydney Sweeney makes her entrance in Echo Valley like an apparition in a horror movie. The movie’s main character, Kate Garretson (Julianne Moore), is the owner of the verdant Echo Valley Farm, where she boards horses and gives riding lessons to the privileged children of Chester County, Pennsylvania. She’s been making a go of things alone since the death of her wife six months earlier, and she’s out working in the stables when her dog suddenly starts barking and rushes outside.
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3 weeks ago |
vulture.com | Alison Willmore
Ballerina is a movie about Eve Macarro, an assassin played by Ana de Armas who embarks on a bloody quest for revenge. It is also a movie about what makes the John Wick series work, though I have a feeling that was not part of the original pitch.
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3 weeks ago |
vulture.com | Alison Willmore
No need to get your Ayn Rand references ready — Mountainhead makes them for you, right at the top. When Jeff (Ramy Youssef) arrives at the high-altitude mansion where the entire film is set, he immediately makes fun of the place’s name. “Mountainhead? Like Fountainhead Mountainhead?” he scoffs. Written and directed by Succession creator Jesse Armstrong in his feature debut, Mountainhead is not the sort of satire in which sly details slip by along the edges, only to be noticed on rewatch.
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I don't know that it's my favorite film of the decade — I don't know what my favorite film of the decade is — but it's hard to think of another one that's aged this well https://t.co/pqRs5r9IUF