Review: ‘Bad Therapy’A Grim, Unfunny Marriage Comedy In Desperate Need Of Better Counseling
There is so much comic talent in Bad Therapy that you have to put blame elsewhere for the disaster it ultimately turns out to...
Review: ‘The Willoughbys’Kids Endanger Their Parents In Netflix's Frantic And Slapsticky Animated Adventure-Comedy
“If you’re interested in stories with happy endings, you’re better off reading some other book. In this book, there are no happy endings", warns...
Review: ‘The Sunlit Night’ Jenny Slate Sinks At The Top Of The World
*NOTE* This is an edited review from the Sundance Film Festival*
I’ll say this for director David Wnendt; he knows how to make an impression....
Review: ‘Made In Italy’Liam Neeson And Son Seek Emotional Healing In James D'arcy's Syrupy...
Liam Neeson. Made in Italy. It's too much to hope this lite father/son drama is actually an undercover Taken spinoff with Neeson taking on...
Review: ‘Tesla’Ethan Hawke Fails To Generate Much Electricity In Michael Almereyda's Curious Biopic
Michael Almereyda is a filmmaker very interested in making interesting movies about uninteresting men. Judicious use of technical, spatial, and musical anachronism are the...
Review: ‘The War With Grandpa’Robert De Niro Drops Trou In A Lowbrow Prank Comedy
Look, we're in the midst of a global pandemic that has wrecked the entire movie industry. The world needs entertainment, and perhaps in this...
Review: ‘The Witches’Anne Hathaway Casts A Campy Spell But Can't Rescue Robert Zemeckis' Dull...
Roald Dahl adaptations are always tricky to pull off, because the author's work often teeters between childish flights of fancy and the stuff of...
Review: ‘Come Play’Gillian Jacobs Struggles Through A Haunted Tablet Horror In Need Of An...
There are no shortage of films about the dangers of technology, and their propensity to consume our everyday lives. That premise is given a...
Review: ‘Locked Down’Anne Hathaway And Chiwetel Ejiofor Star In A Pandemic Heist Film As...
There are heist movies, and then there are badly-paced, chatty relationship movies disguised as heist movies. Doug Liman's unreasonably lame Locked Down is definitely...
Sundance Review: ‘In The Earth’Ben Wheatley's Pandemic Horror Gets Lost In The Woods
I know there will be people who absolutely love Ben Wheatley's hallucinogenic, pandemic horror In the Earth. It's a return to his genre roots...