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Film Review: “How to Make a Killing”

Powell impresses in Killing’s toothless satire

Becket (Glen Powell) scanning the scene in ‘How to Make a Killing.’

Producer Glen Powell found a fitting project for actor Glen Powell. Writer/director John Patton Ford’s new dark comedy How to Make a Killing, on which Powell is an executive producer, is a perfect star vehicle for the actor and a welcome return-to-form after last fall’s disappointing The Running Man remake. Aimed at being charmingly inoffensive to a wide audience, though at the expense of its satirical precision and level of twistedness, How to Make a Killing is an easily digestible distraction featuring likeable actors and nothing more. Continue reading “Film Review: “How to Make a Killing””

Film Review: “Drive-Away Dolls”

Few clever moments can’t salvage solo Coen brother project 

BFFs Jamie (Margaret Qualley, l.) and Marian (Geraldine Viswanathan) run into some trouble.

Following in his big brother Joel’s footsteps, Ethan Coen steps outside the pair’s successful filmmaking partnership with Drive-Away Dolls, his first solo narrative feature. Unfortunately, Ethan doesn’t do as well as his brother did with his 2021 award-winning The Tragedy of Macbeth. Drive-Away Dolls probably won’t win any awards, but it’s a serviceable, if mostly forgettable, attempt at a retro, low-brow comedy.

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