Nathan Drillot and Jeff Petry didn’t know much about either competitive pinball or autism before they made their first feature-length documentary, WIZARD MODE. That was the intriguing combination, though, that they found in Robert Gagnol, whose parents decided early on that a diagnosis of autism wasn’t going to define their son, and in Robert himself,… Read More »
THE ACCOUNTANT
THE ACCOUNTANT is a flabby, overlong film with an earnest mission to make us all think differently about autism, and also to give us the cheap thrill of seeing justice meted out to those slimy financiers who manipulate high finance to the detriment of the little guys at the bottom of that particular food chain.… Read More »
THE DARKNESS
THE DARKNESS, released without a press screening, and on Friday the Thirteenth, is everything you’d expect. It’s a tame and insultingly derivative version of POLTERGEIST, right down to the sulky teenage daughter and the darling little kid who sees spirits. That the little kid is a boy, not a blond cherub of a girl, and… Read More »