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...
Review: ‘The Wolf Of Snow Hollow’An Out-Of-The Box Werewolf Flick To Shake Up Your...
It’s October, and you know what that means? It’s time for genre pictures galore! The Wolf of Snow Hollow, written, starring and directed by...
Review: ‘Synchronic’Time-Travel Snoozer Sends Anthony Mackie And Jamie Dornan On A Bad Trip
Synchronic starts out going one way, like the arthouse version of Scorsese's Bringing Out the Dead, but turns out to be something else entirely...
Review: ‘Fatman’Mel Gibson Is A Hard-Drinking, Gun-Toting Santa In A Christmas Comedy Without Holiday...
Let me be real on something here: Fatman is the sort of film most people are going to see purely for the shock, and...
Review: ‘Come Away’Peter Pan And Alice In Wonderland Are Given Grim Origin Stories
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Sundance Film Festival.*
If Brenda Chapman’s name is familiar to you, it’s probably also what...
Review: ‘Chick Fight’Malin Akerman Finds Healing By Hurting In An Underground Fight Club
I’m not sure if there’s another movie that can go either the route of toxic masculinity run amuck or female empowerment quite like a...
Review: ‘Superintelligence’Melissa McCarthy's AI Comedy Needs More Laughs Written Into Its Code
Superintelligence, the new HBO Max comedy from McCarthy and director/actor husband Ben Falcone, is a perfectly pleasant, instantly forgettable film. That's probably not what...
Review: ‘Happiest Season”Kristen Stewart And Mackenzie Davis Can't Make The Yuletide Gay In Hulu's...
For many people, Christmas time means Christmas movies. Earlier this year Hallmark received backlash for announcing that they would finally be making a Christmas...
Review: ‘Stand!’Impressive Labor Movement Musical Can't Escape Its Stage Roots
Nowadays we take many of our labor laws for granted. We work our 9-5, receive our guaranteed pay, and think nothing of it. That...
Review: ‘Wander’Aaron Eckhart And Tommy Lee Jones' Bugged-Out Performances Headline A Middling Paranoid Thriller
Conspiracy thriller movies can be a lot of fun in the right hands. They really don't need to make a lot of sense, right,...