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...
Review: ‘Hypnotic’Ben Affleck And Robert Rodriguez's Mindbending Crime Film Gives The Illusion Of Being...
It's hard to believe that in today's cinematic landscape, a new film from Robert Rodriguez and led by Ben Affleck can get as little...
Review: ‘Fool’s Paradise’Charlie Day And Ken Jeong Impress In A Hollywood Satire That Lacks...
Charlie Day is a funny dude. We've seen it for fifteen seasons on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the record-breaking series he's been writing...
Review: ‘Blackberry’Matt Johnson Crafts A Funny And Brilliant Look At The Rise And Fall...
Are we in a sortof mini Golden Era for brilliant, funny, and emotional biopics about game-changing innovations? From the Nike Air Jordan film Air to...
Review: ‘Love Again’Priyanka Chopra Jonas And Sam Heughan Lead Absurd Rom-Com Made For Celine...
Let me preface this by saying that I'm a big fan of writer/director James C. Strouse. Two of his previous films, The Incredible Jessica James and People...