Sundance Review: ‘The Ugly Stepsister’Beauty Is Pain In Deliriously Grotesque Body Horror Spin On...
Feminist body horror reached a new peak with Coralie Fargeat's Oscar-nominated The Substance. But who says there can be only one gross-out spin on the...
Review: ‘Inheritance’Phoebe Dynevor Travels The Globe In Neil Burger's Propulsive Spy Thriller Shot On...
Neil Burger is one of those journeyman filmmakers who has done a little bit of everything fairly well. He's gone the experimental route with...
Review: ‘Dark Match’Chris Jericho And Ayisha Issa Bring Hell To The Ring In Brutal...
You don't have to be a fan of professional wrestling to know this but if you are, you know it's true. Pro wrestling is...
Review: ‘One Of Them Days’Keke Palmer And SZA Deliver "Craig and Smokey" Vibes In...
Is there anyone out there who doesn't love Friday, the 1995 "one day in the 'hood" comedy that made Ice Cube and Chris Tucker...
Review: ‘Wolf Man’Tame Werewolf Film Lacks Hair-Raising Frights
The Universal Monsters will never die. We know this to be true, because Universal has been making movies with Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, Wolf Man,...
Review: ‘Hard Truths’Marianne Jean-Baptiste Is At Her Brutal Best In Mike Leigh's Heartbreaking Drama...
I hated Marianne Jean-Baptiste's insufferable character Pansy in the first five minutes of Mike Leigh's Hard Truths. That's okay. He wants us to hate...
Review: ‘Disfluency’Libe Barer Shines In Anna Baumgarten's Powerhouse Drama About Trauma And Recovery
Disfluency. It's not a word you hear in everyday conversation. It's the interruption, the disruption in the flow of a person's speech. Anna Baumgarten...
Review: ‘Den Of Thieves 2: Pantera’Gerard Butler And O'Shea Jackson Jr. Lead A Bigger,...
Den of Thieves, Christian Gudegast's 2018 heist thriller was something of an over-deliverly given its modest trappings. An enjoyable "cool" film that played like...
Review: ‘Nickel Boys’RaMell Ross' Artful Adaptation Paints A Beautiful Portrait Of Black Friendship In...
I had to watch RaMell Ross' beautifully poetic adaptation of Colson Whitehead's book Nickel Boys a couple of times. To be fair, Ross himself...
Review: ‘Day Of The Fight’Michael Pitt Delivers A Soulful Comeback Performance In Jack Huston's...
Michael Pitt is proof that no actor should ever be written off, especially one with so much untapped potential. The former model and heartthrob...