Review: ‘Come Away’Peter Pan And Alice In Wonderland Are Given Grim Origin Stories
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Sundance Film Festival.*
If Brenda Chapman’s name is familiar to you, it’s probably also what...
Review: ‘Freaky’Vince Vaughn Is At His Scariest As A Teenage Girl In This Wild,...
Nobody makes horror movies fun quite like Christopher Landon. The Paranormal Activity filmmaker leapt from those found-footage flicks into lighter genre fare with Scouts...
Review: ‘Fatman’Mel Gibson Is A Hard-Drinking, Gun-Toting Santa In A Christmas Comedy Without Holiday...
Let me be real on something here: Fatman is the sort of film most people are going to see purely for the shock, and...
Review: ‘Hillbilly Elegy’Amy Adams And Glenn Close Go Big In Ron Howard's Safe Adaptation...
I'll be straight-up: I hate J.D. Vance's book Hillbilly Elegy. The 2016 memoir became the go-to shorthand for political pundits looking to excuse Trump...
Review: ‘Kindred’Race And Women's Rights Converge In Joe Marcantonio's Tense Gaslighting Horror
In the grim, stony English manor in which Joe Marcantonio's Kindred mostly takes place, the walls are lined with portraits of white colonialists, men...
‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Episode 2 Review: ‘The Passenger’
This episode of The Mandalorian is going to frustrate people. How do I know? Because it frustrated the Hell out of me.
So the big...
Review: ‘Proxima’Eva Green Soars In Alice Winocour's Astronaut Drama About A Mother And Daughter's...
The last couple of years have seen a surprising amount of interest in stories about female astronauts, almost like a response to the dearth...
Review: ‘Let Him Go’Diane Lane And Kevin Costner Speak Softly And Carry A Big...
Say what you will about Man of Steel (and trust me, people have), one thing it got absolutely right was the casting of Diane...
Review: ‘The True Adventures Of Wolfboy’A Surreal Coming-Of-Age Fairy Tale About Finding Self-Worth In...
At a time when demonizing the "other" is running rampant, a heartwarming film about self-acceptance is a welcome treat. The True Adventures of Wolfboy...
Review: ‘Come Play’Gillian Jacobs Struggles Through A Haunted Tablet Horror In Need Of An...
There are no shortage of films about the dangers of technology, and their propensity to consume our everyday lives. That premise is given a...