Review: ‘The Kill Room’Uma Thurman And Samuel L. Jackson Paint With Broad Strokes In...
A few years ago, Velvet Buzzsaw attempted to satirize the art world on a canvas of dark comedy and murder, but even with that title its...
Review: ‘Nyad’Annette Bening Swims Hard In Crowd-Pleasing Biopic That Could've Taken A Deeper Dive
Swimming biopic Nyad is a film constantly at odds with itself. The subject of the film, Diana Nyad, is famous for, at the ripe "old" age...
Review: ‘Rustin’Colman Domingo Brings A Forgotten Civil Rights Icon To Life
Biographical dramas, biopics, are the coal that drives the engine of awards season. It can be a bit of a drag watching so many...
Review: ‘Next Goal Wins’Taika Waititi's Silly, Good-Hearted Soccer Comedy Scores When It Counts
Taika Waititi's unique brand of humor has elevated him from relative obscurity to directing a pair of hit Marvel films, becoming a popular favorite...
Review: ‘Dream Scenario’Nicolas Cage Is On Everyone's Minds In A Strange, Nightmare Dark Comedy
The funny thing about Nicolas Cage is that at this stage of his career, after many strange, off-the-wall performances in bizarre movies, he’s kinda...
Review: ‘The Boy And The Heron’Hayao Miyazaki's Comeback Film Will Be A Soulful, Familiar...
Nine years ago legendary Studio Ghibli animator Hayao Miyazaki "retired" with his final film, a perfect magnum opus in The Wind Rises. It told a...
Review: ‘The End We Start From’Jodie Comer Mesmerizes As A Mother Fleeing A Climate...
The End We Start From is a post-apocalyptic survival thriller...but then it's also not. There are no large-scale, massive displays of cataclysmic damage. No...
Review: ‘The Bricklayer’Aaron Eckhart And Nina Dobrev Butt Heads In Renny Harlin's Enjoyable, Globe-Trotting...
The Bricklayer. The title is an apt one for several reasons, but let's start with director Renny Harlin. A journeyman nowadays, his skills as...
Review: ‘Lift’Kevin Hart Gets Serious-ish In Netflix's High-Flying Heist Comedy
Kevin Hart isn't an action star, but he keeps creeping his way towards becoming one. Typically, he does it through comedy in such films...
Sundance Review: ‘Presence’Steven Soderbergh Tense Slow Burn Ghost Story Leaves An Impression
In the opening moments of Steven Soderbergh's Presence, his camera swoops and swirls throughout an empty, multi-tiered home in an idyllic suburb. While Soderbergh's...