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...
Review: ‘Sentimental Value’Renate Reinsve And Stellan Skarsgard Navigate Filmmaking And Familial Chaos In Joachim...
As a general rule, I dislike movies where a troubled filmmaker tries to sort out their myriad of issues by making that one movie...
Review: ‘Christy’Sydney Sweeney Hits Hard In A Boxing Biopic That Punches Above Its Weight
As the female boxer who put the sport on the map, Christy Martin’s story would always be worthy of being told. But the boxing...
Review: ‘Predator: Badlands’The 'Predator' Franchise Enters Uncharted Territory With A Killer Entry That Flips...
Seven years after Shane Black's The Predator underwhelmed at the box office, the vaunted franchise returns to the big screen with Predator: Badlands. Credit...