The Pacer

Independent voice of the University of Tennessee at Martin

Year: 2021

‘CODA’ hits all the right notes

It’s difficult to distill into words the pure magic and transcendent beauty of writer-director Sian Heder’s CODA, a joyful coming-of-age…

‘Free Guy’ is affable- if slight- summer spectacle

Guy (Ryan Reynolds) is leading a perfectly average life of working-class monotony and complacent self-satisfaction. He arises every day to…

DC redeems its worst movie with ‘The Suicide Squad’

One article can make all the difference. 2016’s Suicide Squad, the third installment of the extended cinematic universe of DC comics…

‘Jungle Cruise’ eventually deflates its homages

The year is 1916 in London, and MacGregor Houghton (Jack Whitehall) –brother and assistant to fiercely self-possessed botanist Dr. Lily…

A24’s ‘The Green Knight’ masterfully modernizes the medieval genre

Director David Lowery’s and indie studio A24’s latest and most ambitious feature to date- a sprawling medieval epic- surprisingly initiates…