Review: ‘Rental Family’Brendan Fraser Is A Loved One For Hire In Hikari's Sensitive, Moving...
It’s amazed me that so many people have never heard of the Japanese phenomenon of rental family services. Werner Herzog made an entire movie...
Review: ‘Wicked: For Good’Cynthia Erivo And Ariana Grande Lift Sequel Hobbled By 'Wizard Of...
As a newbie to the wizarding world of Wicked, what I loved about that dreamy quasi-prequel and Broadway musical adaptation was that it felt unshackled...
Review: ‘Now You See Me: Now You Don’t’The Magic Heist Series Continues With A...
After nearly a decade, the new Now You See Me film is finally here. After years of speculation and various reports of new writers...
Review: ‘Nouvelle Vague’Zoey Deutch As Jean Seberg Illuminates Richard Linklater's Entertaining But Slavish French...
One imagines that Jean-Luc Godard, the French New Wave icon and subject of Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, would probably hate Nouvelle Vague. Linklater’s entertaining, deeply respectful...
Review: ‘The Running Man’Glen Powell Plays A Deadly Game In Edgar Wright's Blistering, Baffling...
As a kid who grew up in the '80s a fan of larger-than-life action heroes, I loved 1987's The Running Man. I even did...
Review: ‘King Ivory’James Badge Dale And Ben Foster Lead John Swab's Gripping 'Traffic'-Style Drug...
Steven Soderbergh's Best Picture winner Traffic has loomed large over drug war dramas for 25 years. But if you're going to emulate something, might as well...
Review: ‘Frankenstein’Guillermo Del Toro's Dream Project Is Gorgeous And Monstrously Dull
Guillermo Del Toro’s Frankenstein is a dream project he has been trying to make happen for years, and you can see it. The ornate production...
Review: ‘Die My Love’Jennifer Lawrence Unravels In Lynne Ramsay's Intense Motherhood Thriller
It took me quite a while to sort out my feelings about Lynne Ramsay's Die My Love. I find that's always the case with Ramsay's films,...
Review: ‘Nuremberg’Russell Crowe Commands The Screen As Hermann Göring In James Vanderbilt's Gripping Historical...
Undoubtedly, ten or fifteen years ago, James Vanderbilt’s Nuremberg would be seen as a sure-fire Best Picture conteder. Sadly, they just don’t make stately, handsome period...
Review: ‘Stone Cold Fox’Kiernan Shipka, Krysten Ritter, And Kiefer Sutherland Can't Rescue This Generic...
On paper, Stone Cold Fox is a movie made for me. It features three of my favorites: Kiernan Shipka in the lead, plus Krysten Ritter and...