Review: ‘Monster’Hirokazu Kore-eda's Intriguing Mother-Son Mystery And Sweet Coming-Of-Age Tale Demands You Keep An...
If there's a universal truth about the films of Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda, it's that nothing is ever quite as it seems. The complicated...
Review: ‘American Fiction’Jeffrey Wright Leaves Them Bamboozled In Funny, Insightful Satire About Plight Of...
*NOTE: This review was originally part of our Middleburg Film Festival coverage.*
In 1985, Robert Townsend offered one of the most insightful, and funniest looks...
Review: ‘The Color Purple’Fantasia Berrino And Danielle Brooks Ignite Blitz Bazawule’s Joyous Musical Remake
You don't mess with The Color Purple in my family. It's one of those films (alongside The Bodyguard) that would play constantly in my...
Review: ‘Saltburn’Emerald Fennell's Stylish, Kinky Aristocratic Thriller Ensares You In Its Web
If Cruel Intentions and Brideshead Revisited were burned to ashes then laced with acid and smoked, you’d get the sensation of Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman follow-up, Saltburn. A constantly-shocking look...
Review: ‘In The Land Of Saints And Sinners’Liam Neeson And Kerry Condon Go To...
I give it up to Liam Neeson for yet another career pivot. Gone are the blockbuster geriatric action flicks that he rode into the...
Review: ‘Abigail’Bite-Sized Vampire Ballerina Makes For A Bloody Good, B-Movie Horror Comedy
Horror can be extremely limiting, but the best filmmakers in the genre know how to explore cinematic violence in a multitude of ways. The...
Review: ‘Onward’Pixar's Elven Adventure Has Heart But Lacks The Usual Magic
Such is the price of Pixar's incredible success that we basically grade their movies one of two ways: either they're instant classics, or they're...
Review: ‘Bloodshot’Vin Diesel Slugs His Way Through A Brawny, Surprisingly Enjoyable Comic Book Movie
If trying to launch a brand new superhero cinematic universe, Sony could've done worse than Bloodshot, a character whose origin story is basically a...
Review: ‘Big Time Adolescence’Pete Davidson Gets The Headlines But Griffin Gluck Truly Wins In...
Debuting at Sundance in 2019, Big Time Adolescence was the kind of familiar, plucky coming-of-age story the festival trafficks in pretty regularly. What made...
Review: ‘The Banker’Anthony Mackie And Samuel L. Jackson Invest In A Superheroic True Story...
Wealth. When institutional racism is discussed, it is the creation of wealth that has long been denied to black people even after the end...