Review: ‘The High Note’Tracee Ellis Ross And Dakota Johnson Vibe In Feel-Good Music World...
Comparisons to The Devil Wears Prada will come easily for Nisha Ganatra's music-industry comedy The High Note. But with its less-devilish, just as high-maintenance...
Review: ‘American Skin’Nate Parker Puts The Police On Trial In His Provocative, Unfocused, And...
Let's get one thing out of the way right now. American Skin, the first movie from writer/director/star Nate Parker since his Birth of a...
Review: ‘Escape From Pretoria’Daniel Radcliffe Can't Break Free From A Promising But Underwhelming Prison...
Prison escape movies are only as interesting as the escapees themselves, and the cleverness of their escape route. So it's not surprising that Escape...
Review: ‘Needle In A Timestack’John Ridley's Sci-Fi Romance Mires Leslie Odom Jr., Cynthia Erivo,...
Who doesn't wish they could go back in time and fix a relationship that ended badly? In Oscar-winning writer John Ridley's Needle in a...
Sundance Review: ‘Resurrection’Rebecca Hall And Tim Roth Play Head Games In Andrew Semans' Grotesquely...
There's something about the way Margaret (Rebecca Hall) offers advice to a naive co-worker about her abusive boyfriend. It sounds authoritative, too much so,...
Review: ‘Lucky Grandma’Tsai Chin Is Intimidating And Cold In Sasie Sealy's Insane Heist Drama
In the heart of Chinatown, New York, an ornery, chain-smoking, newly widowed 80-year-old Grandma (Tsai Chin) is eager to live life as an independent...
Review: ‘The Queen’s Gambit’Anya Taylor-Joy Has All The Right Moves As A Tortured Yet...
While the game of chess requires great skill, concentration, adaptation, strategy, and countless other cerebral abilities, it’s often thought of a long and boring...
Review: ‘Hearts Beat Loud’, Nick Offerman And Kiersey Clemons Jam Out In An Infectious...
It's "jam sesh time" urges Nick Offerman's Frank in Brett Haley's sweet, low-key dramedy Hearts Beat Loud, one of the most popular films to...
Review: ‘Mayday’A War-Torn Feminist Fairy Tale That Doesn't Go Far Enough
*NOTE: This review was originally part of our 2021 Sundance Film Festival coverage. Mayday opens in theaters and VOD on October 1st.*
Karen Cinorre’s fantastical,...
Review: ‘Over The Moon’All Systems Go For Netflix's Chinese Moon Goddess Tale
Netflix’s newest foray into the animated film space comes with Over the Moon. The film follows Fei Fei (Cathy Ang) a bright young girl...