Review: ‘Wonder Woman 1984’A Feel-Good Sequel That Comes Close To Being So Much More
It's the 1980s. The era of Gordon Gekko, Reaganomics, Alex P. Keaton, and the "greed is good" mentality. Ther perfect time to introduce a...
Review: ‘Soul’Pixar Delivers A Breezy Existential Crowdpleaser That Plays It Safe
When we learned Pete Docter was doing Soul, a film that would explore concepts of the afterlife, I think flashes of his modern classic...
Review: ‘Sylvie’s Love’Tessa Thompson Shines In A Black Love Story With A Touch Of...
The arrival of Eugene Ashe's film Sylvie's Love heralds the return of something we rarely get to see now, if ever: the African-American period...
Review: ‘We Can Be Heroes’Robert Rodriguez And A Fresh-Faced Cast Lead Netflix's Tween Superhero...
There’s two different versions of director Robert Rodriquez: one for older folks, and one for children. For those a little older and prone to...
Review: ‘American Skin’Nate Parker Puts The Police On Trial In His Provocative, Unfocused, And...
Let's get one thing out of the way right now. American Skin, the first movie from writer/director/star Nate Parker since his Birth of a...
Review: ‘Outside The Wire’Anthony Mackie Is An Advanced Android Soldier In An Efficient Sci-Fi...
Netflix's latest "quick grab" action flick Outside the Wire is a hodge-podge of various military scare-tactic films. You've got Terminator and the fear of...
‘WandaVision’ Review: Marvel Takes A Big Gamble Mixing Superheroes With Classic TV Sitcoms
While we shouldn't expect the Marvel Cinematic Universe to walk in lock-step with Marvel Comics, there's one universal truth when it comes to Wanda...
Review: ‘The Marksman’Liam Neeson Defends An Immigrant Boy In An Eastwood-esque Action Flick
The Marksman, Liam Neeson's latest geriatric action thriller, could just as easily be imagined as a star vehicle for Clint Eastwood. The film is...
Review: ‘Penguin Bloom’Naomi Watts Gets Upstaged By A Magpie In This Inspirational, Heavy-Handed Recovery...
The story of a paralyzed woman who bounces back with the help of a curious, equally-broken bird named Penguin sounds like either SNL parody...
Sundance Review: ‘Cryptozoo’Dash Shaw's Bizarre Animated Adventure Is 'Fantastic Beasts' For The Adult Swim...
It's the 1960s, and sketchily-drawn hippies Amber (voiced by Louisa Krause) and Matthew (Michael Cera) abscond into the woods for a night of blissed-out...