Review: ‘Sound Of Metal’Riz Ahmed Delivers Raw, Ferocious Performance As A Drummer Coping With...
*NOTE: This is a reprint from my review from the Middleburg Film Festival.*
The title Sound of Metal has a double meaning in Darius Marder’s tremendous feature...
Review: ‘Embattled’Stephen Dorff Pulls No Punches In MMA Drama That Looks Beyond The Cage
Brash, arrogant, casually racist and abusive towards women, Stephen Dorff channels the attitude of Conor McGregor to a tee in Embattled, an MMA drama...
Review: ‘Jiu Jitsu’Nicolas Cage Battles Alien Martial Artists And Yet This Could've Been Crazier
If nothing else, Jiu Jitsu deserves credit for not being another boring car chases 'n big explosions action flick. Guaranteed there aren't a ton of Nicolas...
Review: ‘The Last Vermeer’Art World Thriller Features A Scene-Stealing Guy Pearce
There are A LOT of World War II movies. One seems to come out every Oscar season. However, the rebuilding that came after the...
Review: ‘Vanguard’Jackie Chan Is Reduced To Comic Relief In A Lousy 007-Knockoff
I know it's unfair to expect Jackie Chan, at 66 years young, to be the same wildly athletic guy he was 25 years ago...
‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Episode 4 Review: ‘The Siege’
After last week's excellent episode of The Mandalorian and its exciting tease of Ahsoka Tano, I joked that we probably wouldn't see her any time...
Review: ‘The Orange Years’The Nickelodeon Doc Slimes You With Nostalgia
“Kids all over the world said, ‘I get to be me and if I’m really lucky, maybe I get to be slimed.’” For over...
Review: ‘Mank’Gary Oldman Shines In David Fincher's Immersive, Darkly Comic Love Letter To One...
Citizen Kane is one of those films every critic is intimately familiar with. You can't have gotten very far without tangling with it at some...
Review: ‘Girl’Bella Thorne Gives A Must-See Performance In A Down 'n Dirty Revenge Movie
It's impossible to escape the specter that seems to follow around the stars of Girl, the gritty new film from director Chad Faust. You...
Review: ‘Chick Fight’Malin Akerman Finds Healing By Hurting In An Underground Fight Club
I’m not sure if there’s another movie that can go either the route of toxic masculinity run amuck or female empowerment quite like a...