Review: ‘Superintelligence’Melissa McCarthy's AI Comedy Needs More Laughs Written Into Its Code
Superintelligence, the new HBO Max comedy from McCarthy and director/actor husband Ben Falcone, is a perfectly pleasant, instantly forgettable film. That's probably not what...
Review: ‘Black Beauty’Kate Winslet Voices The Iconic Horse In Disney's Dark But Rewarding Adaptation
Was Black Beauty always so...grim? Perhaps it was. Admittedly, Anna Sewell's 1877 novel wasn't high on my must-read list as a kid, and it's...
Review: ‘Sound Of Metal’Riz Ahmed Delivers Raw, Ferocious Performance As A Drummer Coping With...
*NOTE: This is a reprint from my review from the Middleburg Film Festival.*
The title Sound of Metal has a double meaning in Darius Marder’s tremendous feature...
Review: ‘Embattled’Stephen Dorff Pulls No Punches In MMA Drama That Looks Beyond The Cage
Brash, arrogant, casually racist and abusive towards women, Stephen Dorff channels the attitude of Conor McGregor to a tee in Embattled, an MMA drama...
Review: ‘Jiu Jitsu’Nicolas Cage Battles Alien Martial Artists And Yet This Could've Been Crazier
If nothing else, Jiu Jitsu deserves credit for not being another boring car chases 'n big explosions action flick. Guaranteed there aren't a ton of Nicolas...
Review: ‘Vanguard’Jackie Chan Is Reduced To Comic Relief In A Lousy 007-Knockoff
I know it's unfair to expect Jackie Chan, at 66 years young, to be the same wildly athletic guy he was 25 years ago...
‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Episode 4 Review: ‘The Siege’
After last week's excellent episode of The Mandalorian and its exciting tease of Ahsoka Tano, I joked that we probably wouldn't see her any time...
Review: ‘Mank’Gary Oldman Shines In David Fincher's Immersive, Darkly Comic Love Letter To One...
Citizen Kane is one of those films every critic is intimately familiar with. You can't have gotten very far without tangling with it at some...
Review: ‘Girl’Bella Thorne Gives A Must-See Performance In A Down 'n Dirty Revenge Movie
It's impossible to escape the specter that seems to follow around the stars of Girl, the gritty new film from director Chad Faust. You...
‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Episode 3 Review: ‘The Heiress’
Finally! An episode of The Mandalorian so good I immediately watched it a second time. I popped so hard for some of the stuff...