Review: ‘Come Away’Peter Pan And Alice In Wonderland Are Given Grim Origin Stories
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Sundance Film Festival.*
If Brenda Chapman’s name is familiar to you, it’s probably also what...
Review: ‘Superintelligence’Melissa McCarthy's AI Comedy Needs More Laughs Written Into Its Code
Superintelligence, the new HBO Max comedy from McCarthy and director/actor husband Ben Falcone, is a perfectly pleasant, instantly forgettable film. That's probably not what...
Review: ‘Wander’Aaron Eckhart And Tommy Lee Jones' Bugged-Out Performances Headline A Middling Paranoid Thriller
Conspiracy thriller movies can be a lot of fun in the right hands. They really don't need to make a lot of sense, right,...
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: ‘The Midnight Sky’George Clooney's Melancholic, Muddled Sci-Fi Drama Fails To Launch
I know they never really went away, but does it feel like every movie nowadays deals with a global catastrophe that wipes out humanity?...
Review: ‘Shadow In The Cloud’Chloe Grace Moretz Nearly Saves This New Nightmare At 20,000...
I have to admit to being of two minds when it comes to Shadow in the Cloud, a film of undeniable style, the ability...
Review: ‘Brothers By Blood’Matthias Schoenaerts And Joel Kinnaman Add Towering Presence To A Bland...
I really should know better given the track record of picking movies to be extremely excited for. Brothers by Blood, a small-scale Philadelphia crime...
Review: ‘The Little Things’Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, And Jared Leto Star In A By-The-Book...
The Little Things is a serial killer thriller that is part of that whole debacle with Warner Bros. releasing their movies simultaneously on HBO...
Sundance Review: ‘Mayday’A War-Torn Feminist Fairy Tale That Doesn't Go Far Enough
Karen Cinorre's fantastical, feminist war film Mayday is what Sucker Punch might've been if Zack Snyder had no budget to work, a clearer perspective,...
Sundance Review: ‘Prisoners Of The Ghostland’Nicolas Cage And Sion Sono's Bonkers Genre Mashup Gets...
How is it that Nicolas Cage, that wild and crazy guy, hasn't teamed up with Japanese lunatic auteur Sion Sono before? Perhaps it was...