Review: ‘Centigrade’Genesis Rodriguez Compels In A Dreary Snowbound Thriller
Of the many thriller sub-genres, the contained survival thriller, or the "small box thriller" as I like to call them, is a particular favorite....
Review: ‘The Binge’Hulu's Teen Comedy Of Indulgence Doesn't Get Drunk Or High Enough
The brilliance of Blumhouse's The Purge franchise isn't that it imagines a country where all violence crime is legal for a single day of...
Review: ‘The Personal History Of David Copperfield’Armando Ianucci Smartly Reinvents The Dickens Classic For...
As the man behind such biting political satires as In the Loop and Veep, Armando Iannucci makes an interesting choice for an adaptation of...
Review: ‘The Sleepover’Malin Akerman And Ken Marino Star In Netflix's Good-Natured Family Spy Comedy
I’ve said it before and I’ve said it again, Netflix has come through to save an entire segment of film that just wasn’t getting...
Review: ‘The One And Only Ivan’Bryan Cranston Leads Disney's Sweet And Well-Executed Movie For...
The beginning of the pandemic brought us, Tiger King, the epic tale of exotic animal keep Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin. People seemed to pick...
Review: ‘Chemical Hearts’Lili Reinhart And Austin Abrams Outshine This Trite Teen Drama
In 2005, film critic Nathan Rabin officially coined the term “Manic Pixie Dream Girl,” a film archetype describing a female character that "exists solely...
Review: ‘Peninsula’'Train To Busan' Sequel Is Straight Zombie Spectacle, But Not Much Else
Remember a few months ago, back at the beginning of our long global COVID nightmare, when you'd see images of vacant cities, empty buildings,...
Review: ‘Cut Throat City’RZA Crafts A Rewarding, Cumbersome Big Easy Gangster Epic
The Wizard of Oz plays an unexpectedly large role in RZA's New Orleans crime epic, Cut Throat City. The second film in days set...
Review: ‘The Prey’A Run-Of-The-Mill Jungle Action Flick
Going undercover as a cop is typically a risky endeavor, but The Prey takes that to a whole new level. Xin (Gu Shangwei) is...
Review: ‘Tesla’Ethan Hawke Fails To Generate Much Electricity In Michael Almereyda's Curious Biopic
Michael Almereyda is a filmmaker very interested in making interesting movies about uninteresting men. Judicious use of technical, spatial, and musical anachronism are the...