Review: ‘One Night In Miami’Four Black Icons Debate Celebrity And Activism In Regina King's...
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Middleburg Film Festival. One Night in Miami hits Amazon Prime on Christmas Day.*
Not everyone...
Review: ‘News Of The World’Tom Hanks Spreads Hope, Takes On Fake News In Paul...
Paul Greengrass is so effective at depicting real-life tragedies (Bloody Sunday, United 93, Captain Phillips, 22 July) that we forget how good of a...
Review: ‘Soul’Pixar Delivers A Breezy Existential Crowdpleaser That Plays It Safe
When we learned Pete Docter was doing Soul, a film that would explore concepts of the afterlife, I think flashes of his modern classic...
Review: ‘Sister Of The Groom’Alicia Silverstone And Tom Everett Scott Star In The Uneven...
One of the best consequences of COVID is not having to see your family for the holidays. Sister of the Groom reminds us how...
Review: ‘Wonder Woman 1984’A Feel-Good Sequel That Comes Close To Being So Much More
It's the 1980s. The era of Gordon Gekko, Reaganomics, Alex P. Keaton, and the "greed is good" mentality. Ther perfect time to introduce a...
Review: ‘Fatale’Hilary Swank Twists Michael Ealy Into Knots In Deon Taylor's Latest Racially-Charged Thriller
The erotic, jilted lover genre is well-worn, with most modern permutations rooted in the classic Fatal Attractions. That's quite clearly evident in the title...
‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Finale Review: “The Rescue”
When Star Wars is at its best, I'm not sure there's anything that measures up. At least for me, nothing puts me on a...
Review: ‘Greenland’Gerard Butler's Latest Disaster Thriller Benefits From Small-Scale Focus
While Greenland may look like the typical "Gerard Butler saves the world from disaster" movie, it's definitely a cut above. Directed by Ric Roman...
Review: ‘Promising Young Woman’Carey Mulligan Demands To Be Heard In Raging #MeToo Revenge Tale
NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Sundance Film Festival.*
If Emerald Fennell’s raging #MeToo era revenge film Promising Young Woman was just Carey...
Review: ‘Skylin3s’Quietly One Of The Best Sci-Fi Franchises Around
Little did I, or anyone for that matter, know that 2010's forgettable alien invasion film Skyline would be the launch of one of the...