Review: ‘Senior Year’Rebel Wilson's High School Comedy Is More Nostalgic Than Funny
The '90s were especially rich in quirky high school comedies, and there are worse things to crib from than 1999's Drew Barrymore rom-com Never Been...
Review: ‘Firestarter’Zac Efron And Ryan Kiera Armstrong Star In A Horror Remake That Fails...
This Firestarter definitely does not bring the smoke. The thing about Stephen King adaptations on the big screen is that most fail to fully...
Review: ‘Montana Story’Haley Lu Richardson And Owen Teague Star In A Bruising, Artful Neo-Western
The sun peaking over the mountain ranges in the opening scenes of Montana Story, the stirring if gradual family drama by directors Scott McGehee...
Review: ‘Operation Mincemeat’Colin Firth And Matthew Macfadyen Star In Rewarding, Conventional Spy Drama About...
Operation Mincemeat. It sounds like a murder mission put together by Freddy Kruger. The ridiculous title is fitting for, frankly, one of the most...
Review: ‘Men’Alex Garland's Batsh*t Toxic Masculinity Horror Can't Stick The Landing
Say what you want about Alex Garland, director of Ex Machina, Annihilation, and his new horror provocatively-titled Men, but he definitely trusts his audience to figure stuff...
Review: ‘Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness’Sam Raimi Crafts A Nutty, Head-Spinning Spectacle...
You don't hire Sam Raimi to not make a Sam Raimi movie. While many will take that to mean "horror", it's a lot more...
Review: ‘Pompo The Cinephile’Sweet And Chaotic Anime Celebrates The Joy Of Filmmaking
I love everything about Pompo the Cinephile. The anime adaptation of Shogu Sugitani’s manga is an exuberant, frenzied celebration of all-things filmmaking. And while it's...
Review: ‘Memory’Liam Neeson Is A Hitman With Alzheimer's In Martin Campbell's Understated Action Remake
Memory is in some ways the perfect film for Liam Neeson and director Martin Campbell. Neeson has been the chief purveyor of "old man...
Review: ‘Charlotte’Powerful But Simplistic Animated Biopic Gives Voice To A Holocaust Artist Whose Work...
"Keep this safe, it is my whole life."
For German-Jewish artist Charlotte Salomon, these words couldn't have been truer. Salomon was one of many talented...
Review: ‘The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent’The Ultimate Nic Cage Experience Is Everything His...
I don't know anybody who dislikes Nicolas Cage. There's a reason for that; I don't wanna know anyone who dislikes Nicolas Cage. Suffice it...