Middleburg Review: ‘Spencer’Kristen Stewart Makes For A Luminous Princess Diana In A Film That...
Right from the beginning of Chilean director Pablo Larrain's latest white bird in a blizzard drama, Spencer, we know this isn't remotely a fact-based account....
Review: ‘Godzilla Vs. Kong’Epic Monster Battle Royale Is Worth Enduring The Puny Human Characters...
Godzilla vs. Kong. It promises an epic showdown of two cinematic kaiju titans. We've seen them battle before, in 1962's King Kong vs. Godzilla....
Review: ‘Fatale’Hilary Swank Twists Michael Ealy Into Knots In Deon Taylor's Latest Racially-Charged Thriller
The erotic, jilted lover genre is well-worn, with most modern permutations rooted in the classic Fatal Attractions. That's quite clearly evident in the title...
Review: ‘The Ice Road’Liam Neeson's Big Rig Thriller Is A Slippery But Entertaining Diversion
Over the years we've seen Liam Neeson beat people up on planes, in trains, in foreign lands, and even with lightsabers. When his character...
Review: ‘Bill & Ted Face The Music’A Mostly Excellent Sequel And A Poignant Passing...
The arrival of Bill & Ted Face the Music didn't energize me the way it did fans of the cult favorite 1980s comedies, Bill & Ted's...
Review: ‘Firestarter’Zac Efron And Ryan Kiera Armstrong Star In A Horror Remake That Fails...
This Firestarter definitely does not bring the smoke. The thing about Stephen King adaptations on the big screen is that most fail to fully...
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: ‘Little Fish’Olivia Cooke And Jack O'Connell Try To Find Their Own Eternal Sunshine...
Little Fish, the thought-provoking, poetic sci-fi love story from director Chad Hartigan, is a pandemic movie that isn't about the pandemic. Thank goodness. There...
TIFF 2021 Review: ‘The Guilty’Jake Gyllenhaal Leads Antoine Fuqua's Intense, Contained Cop Thriller
A contained thriller such as Antoine Fuqua's The Guilty, itself a remake of a 2018 Danish film, needs a powerhouse central performance to carry it...
Review: ‘Those Who Wish Me Dead’Angelina Jolie's Fiery Thriller Won't Burn Into Your Memory...
Those Who Wish Me Dead is an old-fashioned star vehicle. It probably wouldn't exist if it weren't for star Angelina Jolie, making an increasingly...