TIFF 2025 Review: ‘Motor City’Alan Ritchson Bruises His Way Through Ultra-Violent, Nearly Wordless '70s...
I've always argued that when it comes to action movies, particularly of the fisticuffs variety, that less is more. I still believe that to...
TIFF 2025 Review: ‘Nouvelle Vague’Zoey Deutch As Jean Seberg Illuminates Richard Linklater's Entertaining But...
One imagines that Jean-Luc Godard, the French New Wave icon and subject of Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague, would probably hate Nouvelle Vague. Linklater's entertaining, deeply respectful...
TIFF 2025 Review: ‘Sentimental Value’Renate Reinsve And Stellan Skarsgard Navigate Filmmaking And Familial Chaos...
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: ‘Twinless’Dylan O'Brien Finds Himself In A Twisted Bromance With Director James Sweeney
Sweet and demented don’t often go hand in hand, but in James Sweeney’s second feature, Twinless, they are a match made in cringe comedy heaven. Written,...
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,...