Review: ‘La Bola Negra’Netflix's Dazzling Queer Historical Epic Is Poised To Be A Major...
Netflix clearly has big plans for La bola negra, a sweeping historical epic taking place across three different stories across three separate timelines. What’s...
Review: ‘Whalefall’Austin Abrams Faces Guilt From The Inside Of A Whale's Gut In Riveting,...
The title Whalefall comes from the decaying carcass of a whale that sinks to the ocean floor, where it ironically becomes a source of life that...
Review: ‘Animals’Ben Affleck's Politically-Charged Riff On 'High And Low' Lacks Real Bite
Here's hoping the checks are in the mail to Akira Kurosawa and Spike Lee, because Ben Affleck's latest effort behind the camera, Animals, is basically...
Review: ‘California Schemin”James McAvoy Shows His Street Cred With Crowd-Pleasing Biopic On Scottish Hip-Hop...
A Scottish boy who grew up to the sounds of hip-hop in the '90s and early 2000s, it's likely that James McAvoy has a...
Review: ‘Misty Green’Rosalind Eleazar Goes For Broke And Nearly Saves Chris Rock's Bitter Hollywood...
Misty Green, Chris Rock's first film as director since 2014's Top Five, has a blistering, balls-to-the-wall lead performance by Rosalind Eleazar at its core. Chances...
Review: ‘The Social Reckoning’Aaron Sorkin Torches Facebook, Celebrates Journalism In Timely And Engaging Sequel
Aaron Sorkin has necessarily made a completely different kind of movie with The Social Reckoning, his follow-up to 2010's The Social Network, which he wrote...
Review: ‘Fjord’Sebastian Stan And Renate Reinsve Face An Avalanche Of Accusations In Cristian Mungiu's...
No filmmaker puts their characters through the emotional wringer quite like Cristian Mungiu. His Palme d'Or winner, Fjord, is another grueling, morally complex drama exploring...
Review: ‘Verity’Anne Hathaway And Dakota Johnson Struggle Through Dull Adaptation Of Colleen Hoover's Trashiest...
I don't consider myself a Colleen Hoover fan, but some author pals in my friend group definitely are. And while I somewhat enjoyed the...
Review: ‘Digger’Tom Cruise Is At His Bombastic Best, But Can't Rescue Iñárritu’s Meta Misfire
Perhaps more than any other actor, Tom Cruise is someone that we want to see push himself. It's probably years of watching him play...
Review: ‘Beware Boiúna’An Awesome New Movie Monster Emerges In The Best Killer Snake Flick...
It's not as if we haven't had plenty of killer snake movies, Anaconda comes to mind; but we've never had a truly great one. It's funny,...