Review: ‘Copshop’Frank Grillo And Gerard Butler Face Off In A Small-Town Police Station
When it was announced that director Joe Carnahan was making a shoot ‘em up featuring Gerard Butler and Frank Grillo facing off against each...
Review: ‘Prisoners Of The Ghostland’Nicolas Cage And Sion Sono's Bonkers Genre Mashup Gets Ballsy...
*NOTE: This review was originally part of our 2021 Sundance Film Festival coverage. Prisoners of the Ghostland opens in theaters and VOD on September...
TIFF 2021 Review: ‘The Starling’Melissa McCarthy Tangles With Grief And An Angry Bird In...
“Birds are tricky,” says Jack Maynard (Chris O’Dowd) to his pregnant wife Lilly (Melissa McCarthy) early on in Theodore Melfi's The Starling. He's not referring...
TIFF 2021 Review: ‘Lakewood’Naomi Watts Can't Run Far Enough To Save Philip Noyce's Ridiculous...
Screenwriter Chris Sparling knows his way around a single-person thriller, his Buried script providing Ryan Reynolds one of his finest early-career performances. Veteran director Philip Noyce...
TIFF 2021 Review: ‘The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain’Benedict Cumberbatch Is The Quirky Feline...
It can't be coincidence my friend's cat came scurrying into my room just as The Electrical Life of Louis Wain was starting, can it? The peculiar...
TIFF 2021 Review: ‘The Guilty’Jake Gyllenhaal Leads Antoine Fuqua's Intense, Contained Cop Thriller
A contained thriller such as Antoine Fuqua's The Guilty, itself a remake of a 2018 Danish film, needs a powerhouse central performance to carry it...
TIFF 2021 Review: ‘Encounter’Riz Ahmed Is Stellar In A Sci-Fi Road Movie That Loses...
Who doesn't love a good twist? When a movie subverts our expectations with an unexpected swerve it can be exhilarating, but it all depends...
TIFF 2021 Review: ‘The Hill Where Lionesses Roar’Luàna Bajrami‘s Vivid Coming-Of-Age Crime Drama Cherishes...
A small town, restless teens, and a yearning for something greater. This logline has been the heart of so many American coming-of-age stories we...
TIFF 2021 Review: ‘All My Puny Sorrows’Alison Pill And Sarah Gadon Breathe Life Into...
There are irreconcilable differences, and then there is what sisters Yoli (Alison Pill) and Elf (Sarah Gadon) face in Michael McGowan's sobering, but somewhat...
Review: ‘Queenpins’Solid Leads Elevate A Run Of The Mill Caper Tale
Queenpins, the new film by Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly which stars Kristen Bell, Vince Vaughn, and Kirby Howell-Baptiste, taught me more then I...