Review: ‘The White Tiger’Ramin Bahrani's Economic Satire Is Part Dickens, Part 'Scarface'
The rage of India's permanent underclass fuels Ramin Bahrani's The White Tiger, a sharp, witty crime drama that's like Dickens with a little bit...
Review: ‘Raya And The Last Dragon’Disney Delivers Sword-Swinging, High-Flying Action With Southeast Asian Flair
It's interesting to me that Disney's Asian-inspired princesses are also in the films that are the most action-heavy. It could just be cultural, as...
Review: ‘The Mitchells Vs. The Machines’A Peculiar, Kinetic, And Hilarious Apocalyptic Road Trip Comedy
On the surface, The Mitchells vs. The Machines takes on a lot of topics we've seen done to death. The dysfunctional family whose different...
Review: ‘Take Back’Gillian White's Charisma Highlights A Middling Action Flick With A Cartoonish Mickey...
As the landscape for female action stars gets steadily more competitive, it's always exciting to see a brand new face enter the picture. Gillian...
Review: Marvel’s ‘What If…?’Explodes With Possibilities And Endless Potential To Reshape The MCU
As Marvel Studios delves further into stories involving the Multiverse, a wild array of alternate realities brought to bear recently in Loki, fans are...
Review: ‘This Is The Night’'Rocky'-Inspired Coming-Of-Age Film Delivers Body Blows Of Nostalgia And Sincerity
May 28th, 1982. That date might not mean anything to you, but it apparently meant a lot to writer/director James DeMonaco and the people...
Review: ‘Eternals’Marvel's Most Ambitious Film Is Also Sure To Be Its Most Divisive
Despite being the undisputed juggernaut of the Hollywood landscape, the Marvel Cinematic Universe spent years being criticized for its homogenous, generic superhero movies. That...
Sundance Review: ‘After Yang’Colin Farrell Digs Through A.I. Memories In Kogonada's Thoughtful Sci-Fi Drama
A futuristic sci-fi movie set in a world where artificial intelligence has become a dominant presence in everyday life. It doesn't sound like something...
Review: ‘X’Ti West Returns With A Wickedly Violent And Sleazy Throwback Slasher Flick
Horror isn't always my thing, but I do like a good slasher. And lately, the more artfully done the slasher flick the more it...
Review: ‘Emergency’A Funny, Uneven, Scary Campus Satire Mixes Laughs With Racial Commentary
*NOTE: This review was originally part of our 2022 Sundance Film Festival coverage.*
On the surface, Carey Williams’ intense college comedy Emergency looks like it traffics in...