Cliff Froehlich

Apr 25, 2024 | riverfronttimes.com | Craig D. Lindsey |Cliff Froehlich

I haven’t seen a movie that edges its audience with more cruel glee than Challengers, Luca Guadagnino’s latest horny-in-theory story of complicated romance. Anyone expecting a moist-and-sweaty Jules et Jim set in the competitive world of professional tennis, which is what I thought when I kept seeing the trailer, will be slightly disappointed (and even a bit impressed) by how much this movie teases you.

Apr 12, 2024 | metrotimes.com | Cliff Froehlich |Josh Justice

[ { "name": "GPT - Leaderboard - Inline - Content", "component": "35519556", "insertPoint": "5th", "startingPoint": "3", "requiredCountToDisplay": "3", "maxInsertions": 100 } ]Reflecting the division in the country whose internecine conflict it vividly depicts, Alex Garland’s Civil War splits unevenly in two, alternating brutally effective and disturbing sequences of violence with caesuras of conversation and uneasy respite.

Apr 12, 2024 | riverfronttimes.com | Cliff Froehlich |Andrew Wyatt

Reflecting the division in the country whose internecine conflict it vividly depicts, Alex Garland’s Civil War splits unevenly in two, alternating brutally effective and disturbing sequences of violence with caesuras of conversation and uneasy respite. The former, with their amped-up urgency and ratcheting suspense, display an impressive filmmaking mastery, but the latter strive for a level of sociocultural insight that they regrettably never quite reach.

Apr 12, 2024 | metrotimes.com | Randiah Camille Green |Cliff Froehlich

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Mar 8, 2024 | riverfronttimes.com | Craig D. Lindsey |Cliff Froehlich |Paula Tredway |Andrew Wyatt

Kung Fu Panda 4 reminds us that animated movie franchises should really end after the third one. I’m still kinda mad that Pixar gave us one of the best movie trilogies of all time with the Toy Story saga, then served up a meh fourth installment in 2019. The same goes with the Shrek franchise, already running on fumes when DreamWorks dropped the Justin Timberlake-enhanced Shrek the Third, churning out the It’s a Wonderful Life-ish Shrek Forever After in 2010.