Review: ‘Falcon Lake’Charlotte Le Bon's Strangely Beautiful Directorial Debut Blends Summer Love And Dark...
What is it to be a ghost but to suffer the complete absence of love? Actress Charlotte Le Bon's arresting directorial debut, Falcon Lake,...
Review: ‘Padre Pio’Shia LaBeouf Struggles With Sin And Temptation In Abel Ferrara's Muddled Drama...
It's a shame that so many have mistaken Shia LaBeouf's struggles with personal demons as a sign that he's a bad actor. Nothing could...
Review: ‘Simulant’Simu Liu, Sam Worthington, Jordana Brewster, And Robbie Amell Star In Dull Sci-Fi...
With Simu Liu, Sam Worthington, Jordana Brewster, and Robbie Amell, Canadian sci-fi thriller Simulant has more star power than most summer blockbusters. Their names alone will...
Review: ‘Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse’An Amazing, Spectacular Masterpiece That Surpasses The Original By Leaps...
Excuse me while I pick my jaw up off the floor. Leaving our screening of Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, I was hit by the overwhelming...
Review: ‘The Little Mermaid’Halle Bailey And Melissa McCarthy Weave A Magical Spell In Disney's...
The most useless question in all of film criticism is "Why does Disney keep doing these live-action remakes"? The answer has been transparent from...
Review: ‘Kandahar’Gerard Butler Fights Through Hostile Territory In Ric Roman Waugh's Surprisingly Nuanced Action-Thriller
When a director and actor truly click as well as Gerard Butler and filmmaker Ric Roman Waugh, expectations are exceeded when you least expect...
Review: ‘You Hurt My Feelings’Julia Louis-Dreyfus And Nicole Holofcener Reunite For A Smart, Funny...
Successful novelist Beth (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and her husband Don (Tobias Menzies), a therapist, share everything. Annoyingly so, or at least to their son Eliot...
Review: ‘Master Gardener’Joel Edgerton Is A Violent Horticulturist Digging For Redemption In Paul Schrader's...
Paul Schrader has found his mojo in this latest act of his storied career, and Master Gardener acts as a thematic companion to his two previous...
Review: ‘Sanctuary’Margaret Qualley And Christopher Abbott Play A Twisted, Psychosexual Game Of Cat-And-Mouse
The interview is going poorly. Rebecca (Margaret Qualley) has a lot of pointed questions for Hal Porterfield (Christopher Abbott), heir to a booming hotel...
Review: ‘Fast X’Jason Momoa Goes Wild As The Franchise's All-Time Best Villain In Jam-Packed...
While delighting in Fast X like a kid with a giant bucket of popcorn and Milk Duds, I remarked to my friend and colleague Jen Chaney...