Review: ‘Samaritan’Sylvester Stallone's Superhero Drama Is A Blast When It Finally Takes The Mask...
It's honestly refreshing to get a major superhero movie far removed from the cinematic universes of Marvel and DC. Samaritan is a gritty comeback story starring...
Review: ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’Chadwick Boseman And Viola Davis Highlight A Big, Bold, Bluesy...
It's tough to watch Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, George C. Wolfe's adaptation of the August Wilson play, without recognizing it as the final screen...
Review: ‘In The Fire’Amber Heard Barely Manages To Heat Up This Tired Faith Vs....
It's a shame that overheated, toxic fans who hate Amber Heard long ago began review bombing her new psychological thriller, In the Fire. The film...
Review: ‘Night Swim’Blumhouse's Sinister Pool Horror Offers Only Shallow Scares
For those with a fear of deep water, a film such as Night Swim, from the combined talents of Blumhouse and James Wan's Atomic Monster,...
Review: ‘The Tutor’Noah Schnapp Gets Passing Grade As A Rich Student With A Dangerous...
Who doesn't love a good psychotic thriller built around one person's obsession with another? A personal favorite of mine is The Crush, which saw...
Review: ‘The Spine Of Night’A Wildly Violent, Rotoscoped Fantasy Epic Not For The Faint...
*NOTE: This review was previously part of our 2021 SXSW Film Festival Coverage. The Spine of Night opens in theaters and digital on October...
Review: ‘Drift’Cynthia Erivo Tries To Heal From Past Trauma In Anthony Chen's Measured, Powerful...
There's barely a scene in Anthony Chen's unhurried drama Drift that doesn't feature star Cynthia Erivo. As Jacqueline, a Liberian refugee seemingly stranded on the...
Review: ‘Wild Mountain Thyme’The Irish Eyes Aren't Smiling On Emily Blunt And Jamie Dornan...
So many cliches. So many awful Irish accents, including one from a genuine Irishman. John Patrick Shanley's Wild Mountain Thyme, an adaptation of his...
Review: ‘A Call To Spy’Female Spies Fight For Liberty In An Admirable WWII Thriller...
In 2016, Sarah Megan Thomas produced and starred in Equity, a financial thriller that showed the cutthroat world of Wall Street from a financial...
Review: ‘The Perfect Candidate’Haifaa al-Mansour Gets Back To Her Hopeful, Empowering Roots
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. The Perfect Candidate is open in select area theaters now.*
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