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...
Review: ‘Anniversary’Diane Lane And Kyle Chandler Headline Star-Studded Thriller
25 years of marriage is something to certainly celebrate and Ellen (Diane Lane) and Paul Taylor (Kyle Chandler) are lucky enough to do so...
Review: ‘Violent Ends’Billy Magnussen And James Badge Dale Lead Impressive, Brutal Shakespearean Crime Epic
Violent Ends; the title of John-Michael Powell's gritty southern crime drama comes from an unexpected place. It's taken from a line in William Shakespeare's...