Review: ‘The Conjuring: Last Rites’The Warrens Exit Stage Left With More Soapy Melodrama Than...
Released in 2013, The Conjuring was exactly what horror needed after a glut of terrible remakes and reboots. Directed by James Wan, it made clever use...
Review: ‘Caught Stealing’Austin Butler And Darren Aronofsky Deliver A Home Run Thriller That's One...
Like a pitcher unaware of the runner swiping second base, Caught Stealing catches you flat-footed that it's by Darren Aronofsky. It doesn't look like a...
Review: ‘The Toxic Avenger’Splattery And Starry Reboot Is A Toxic Waste Of Time
Core to the Troma B-movie brand, 1984's The Toxic Avenger was a sludgy, sloppy, extreme exploitation flick that became a cult favorite, launching sequels, spinoffs,...
Review: ‘Love, Brooklyn’André Holland, Nicole Beharie, And DeWanda Wise Star In A Bland, Frustrating...
Love, Brooklyn is a deeply frustrating movie, the kind that leaves you scratching your head at how it goes so wrong. Directed by Rachael Abigail...
Review: ‘A Little Prayer’David Strathairn And Jane Levy's Strong Performances Can't Save Angus MacLachlan’s...
In A Little Prayer, David Strathairn plays a modern Southern gentleman. He drinks coffee with his daughter-in-law every morning, runs the family business with his son,...
Review: ‘The Roses’Love Is War Between Benedict Cumberbatch And Oliva Colman In Jay Roach's...
Leave it to Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch, arguably the most likable English actors around, to make marital destruction so much fun. The Roses,...
Review: ‘Eden’Jude Law, Sydney Sweeney, Ana De Armas, And Vanessa Kirby Try To Survive...
I admit to having taken quite an interest in The Galapagos Affair long before Ron Howard's cynical, pessimistic survival thriller, Eden. In the 1930s following WWI,...
Review: ‘Lurker’Archie Madekwe Has An Obsessive Fan In His Entourage In Alex Russell's Tense...
The Bear writer Alex Russell’s directorial debut Lurker is the kind of movie that you come to Sundance for, and has been desperately missing for too long....
Review: ‘Honey Don’t!’Margaret Qualley And Ethan Coen Are Beginning To Find A Comedic Rhythm,...
The more I think about Ethan Coen's screwball neo-noir Honey Don't!, the more I appreciate it. Certainly, it's a step in the right direction...
Review: ‘Sketch’Tony Hale Stars In Seth Worley's Directorial Debut Full Of Humor, Thrills, And...
Everyone deals with grief in their own way, no matter their age. It may be a hard lesson, but one Taylor Wyatt (Tony Hale)...