Sundance Review: ‘Emily The Criminal’Aubrey Plaza Scams The System In Tense, Riveting Working Class...
Aubrey Plaza isn't who I would think of as a dangerous, working class Scarface, but after John Patton Ford's effectively tense Emily the Criminal,...
Sundance Review: ‘Am I OK?’Dakota Johnson Finds Humor And Heart In Tig Notaro And...
The "coming out" film is a tried-and-true staple, typically focused on teens who are just beginning to explore their sexual identity. That might be...
Sundance Review: ‘You Won’t Be Alone’Noomi Rapace, Alice Englert, And Others Play A Shapeshifting...
The use of witches in indie horrors has grown steadily since the breakout success of Robert Eggers' The Witch, so much so that it's...
Sundance Review: ‘God’s Country’Thandiwe Newton Battles Racism And Red State Politics In A Tense,...
Reace and class collide with a tension as bitter as the Montana chill in Julian Higgins’ neo-Western, God's Country. The film is a reimagining...
Sundance Review: ‘blood’Carla Juri Muddles Through Japan In Bradley Rust Gray's Meandering Drama About...
One of my favorite jokes from the first Deadpool comic book series is "The melodic sound of gunfire, the international language." It doesn't matter...
Review: ‘Jackass Forever’Bodily Harm And Bodily Fluids In Surprisingly Nostalgic Sequel
Jackass Forever isn't one of those movies you can truly review, is it? In the unlikely franchise's two-decade-long existence I've never actually done it,...
Review: ‘Moonfall’Roland Emmerich Makes A Movie About The Moon Crashing To Earth Surprisingly Forgettable
When you hear the term "disaster movie", I bet the first director who pops into your head is Roland Emmerich. That's for good reason;...
Review: ‘Sundown’Tim Roth Suffers In Silence In Michel Franco's Acapulco-Set Thriller
The best thing I can say about Sundown, the latest nihilistic social thriller from Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco (After Alice), is that the less...
Review: ‘Blacklight’Liam Neeson Action Isn't Enough To Rescue This Lousy Conspiracy Thriller
Remember when Liam Neeson was going to retire from making action movies? Whatever happened to that? I'm not telling the guy what to do...
Review: ‘Death On The Nile’Kenneth Branagh's Latest Agatha Christie Adaptation Is A Pleasure Cruise...
The opening moments of Kenneth Branagh's Death On the Nile resemble an extra scene from his Oscar-contending drama, Belfast. Shot in black & white,...