Review: ‘Anemone’Daniel Day-Lewis Returns To Acting With Relentlessly Bleak Family Drama That'll Darken Your...
It turns out for actors, retirement is the same as when a boxer or professional wrestler retires. It doesn't mean a heck of a...
Review: ‘The Smashing Machine’Dwayne Johnson Owns The Octagon As Mark Kerr In Benny Safdie's...
In Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, the MMA drama that earned him the Silver Lion Award at Venice, trailblazing, undefeated combatant Mark Kerr simply...
Review: ‘Play Dirty’LaKeith Stanfield Steals The Show In Shane Black's Chaotic Return To Action-Comedy
There's so much going on in Shane Black's action-comedy Play Dirty it could've filled two or three adaptations of Donald E. Westlake's popular Parker novels. The career...
Review: ‘A House Of Dynamite’Kathryn Bigelow's Nuclear War Film Is More Terrifying Than Any...
I remember as a curious 6-year-old kid being terrified by the TV movie The Day After, which looked at the repercussions of a nuclear conflict....
Review: ‘Eleanor The Great’Despite June Squibb, Scarlett Johansson's Directorial Debut Suffers From A Lack...
2024 was a good year for June Squibb. She starred in her first leading role at 94 in Thelma, to critical love and acclaim....
Review: ‘Dead Of Winter’Emma Thompson And Judy Greer Heat Up Icy Minnesota Action Thriller
If you’re a diehard fan of harsh climate indie dramas driven by metered doses of man vs. man, man vs. nature and man vs....
Review: ‘One Battle After Another’Leonardo DiCaprio Leads Paul Thomas Anderson's Mesmerizing Epic Of Love,...
It feels so good to have Paul Thomas Anderson making big, bold, ambitious movies again. Not that he's ever slacked, but his adaptation One Battle...
Review: ‘Adulthood’Josh Gad And Kaya Scodelario Find A Dead Body In Alex Winter's Harmless...
As per usual, I knew nothing about this film going in, but when director Alex Winter’s name rung a bell – or rung a...
Review: ‘A Big Bold Beautiful Journey’Margot Robbie And Colin Farrell Star In Kogonada's Big...
I have to admit to being somewhat confounded by A Big Bold Beautiful Journey. Here is a whimsical romantic fantasy, led by one of my...
Review: ‘The Lost Bus’Matthew McConaughey Drives For Survival In Paul Greengrass' Raging And Repetitive...
Nobody captures the operational chaos of responding to an emergency better than Paul Greengrass, and he shows it again in The Lost Bus. Based on...