Review: ‘The Binge’Hulu's Teen Comedy Of Indulgence Doesn't Get Drunk Or High Enough
The brilliance of Blumhouse's The Purge franchise isn't that it imagines a country where all violence crime is legal for a single day of...
Review: ‘Centigrade’Genesis Rodriguez Compels In A Dreary Snowbound Thriller
Of the many thriller sub-genres, the contained survival thriller, or the "small box thriller" as I like to call them, is a particular favorite....
Review: ‘The New Mutants’Untapped Potential Weighs Down Josh Boone's Junior X-Men Movie
Is it possible to review The New Mutants without going back into its long-troubled history? Maybe so, if the film didn't constantly remind you of it...
Review: ‘Still Here’Zazie Beetz Features In Timely Film About A Missing Black Girl And...
While we are in a world of various pandemics (opioid, COVID, joblessness, racism, etc.), one often does unnoticed from our news reports and timelines:...
Review: ‘I Met A Girl’Aussie Rom-Com Walks Delicate Balance In Depiction Of Mental Illness
It seems these days that the standard romantic-comedy has been so overdone that new sub-genres are emerging. Take the new film, director Luke Eve’s...
Review: ‘The Devil All The Time’A Star-Studded Cast Fails To Energize Antonio Campos' Passionless...
It should be an easy home run. Antonio Campos' starry, swampy Southern gothic The Devil All the Time has so many tools the indie,...
Review: ‘Lost Girls & Love Hotels’Alexandra Daddario Goes Fifty Shades In A Japanese Drama...
In the opening moments of William Olsson's Lost Girls & Love Hotels, American ex-pat Margaret (a game Alexandra Daddario) staggers through the back alleys...
Review: ‘Blackbird’Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, And Mia Wasikowska Lead A Trite End-Of-Life Dramedy
Family get-togethers, particularly around the holidays, can lead only to an equal amount of nostalgia and squabbling. That's just the way these things go...
Review: ‘2067’Kodi Smit-McPhee Tries To Stop A Climate Crisis With Time Travel In A...
The state of the world being as it is, it's becoming much easier to consider all of the dire post-apocalyptic sci-fi movies we've consumed...
Review: ‘Once Upon A River’A Beautiful Coming-Of-Age River Journey That Goes Nowhere
“Maybe what happened was bound to happen, like destiny”, narrates 15-year-old Margo (Kenadi DelaCerna) in Haroula Rose's directorial debut, Once Upon a River. Her...