Sundance Review: ‘Master’Regina Hall Deals With Racism In Academia In Mariama Diallo's Debut Horror
Being Black in America can be its own kind of horror story. That's why the genre is so perfectly suited to examinations of race,...
Sundance Review: ‘Alice’Blaxploitation Misfire Sets Keke Palmer On A Path For Vengeance
Long after slavery was abolished, Black people remained in a near-permanent state of servitude because of the laws, and culture, stacked against them. But...
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...
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: ‘Gold’Zac Efron Gets Dirty In A Quest For Riches In Stark Australian Survival...
Those who loved lumberjack, outdoorsy Zac Efron on his series Down to Earth will get more than they bargained for with Gold. The grim,...
Review: ‘Alice’Blaxploitation Misfire Sets Keke Palmer On A Path For Vengeance
*NOTE: This review was originally part of our 2022 Sundance Film Festival coverage. Alice opens in theaters on March 18th.*
Long after slavery was abolished,...
Review: ‘Master’Regina Hall Deals With Racism In Academia In Mariama Diallo's Debut Horror
*NOTE: This review was originally part of our 2022 Sundance Film Festival coverage.*
Being Black in America can be its own kind of horror story....
Review: ‘All The Old Knives’Chris Pine And Thandiwe Newton Can't Sharpen This Dull Spy...
When I use to complain (::shakes fist at the clouds::) about the inconsistent charisma of Chris Pine, it's exactly because of the situation before...
Review: ‘Memory’Liam Neeson Is A Hitman With Alzheimer's In Martin Campbell's Understated Action Remake
Memory is in some ways the perfect film for Liam Neeson and director Martin Campbell. Neeson has been the chief purveyor of "old man...
Review: ‘The Forgiven’Ralph Fiennes And Jessica Chastain Star In Dull Thriller Of Debauchery And...
There's so much potential for a scathing, brutal takedown of the wealthy from John Michael McDonagh's The Forgiven that I find it personally offensive...