Review: ‘Prisoners Of The Ghostland’Nicolas Cage And Sion Sono's Bonkers Genre Mashup Gets Ballsy...
*NOTE: This review was originally part of our 2021 Sundance Film Festival coverage. Prisoners of the Ghostland opens in theaters and VOD on September...
TIFF 2021 Review: ‘The Starling’Melissa McCarthy Tangles With Grief And An Angry Bird In...
“Birds are tricky,” says Jack Maynard (Chris O’Dowd) to his pregnant wife Lilly (Melissa McCarthy) early on in Theodore Melfi's The Starling. He's not referring...
TIFF 2021 Review: ‘Lakewood’Naomi Watts Can't Run Far Enough To Save Philip Noyce's Ridiculous...
Screenwriter Chris Sparling knows his way around a single-person thriller, his Buried script providing Ryan Reynolds one of his finest early-career performances. Veteran director Philip Noyce...
TIFF 2021 Review: ‘The Electrical Life Of Louis Wain’Benedict Cumberbatch Is The Quirky Feline...
It can't be coincidence my friend's cat came scurrying into my room just as The Electrical Life of Louis Wain was starting, can it? The peculiar...
TIFF 2021 Review: ‘The Guilty’Jake Gyllenhaal Leads Antoine Fuqua's Intense, Contained Cop Thriller
A contained thriller such as Antoine Fuqua's The Guilty, itself a remake of a 2018 Danish film, needs a powerhouse central performance to carry it...
TIFF 2021 Review: ‘Encounter’Riz Ahmed Is Stellar In A Sci-Fi Road Movie That Loses...
Who doesn't love a good twist? When a movie subverts our expectations with an unexpected swerve it can be exhilarating, but it all depends...
TIFF 2021 Review: ‘The Hill Where Lionesses Roar’Luàna Bajrami‘s Vivid Coming-Of-Age Crime Drama Cherishes...
A small town, restless teens, and a yearning for something greater. This logline has been the heart of so many American coming-of-age stories we...
TIFF 2021 Review: ‘All My Puny Sorrows’Alison Pill And Sarah Gadon Breathe Life Into...
There are irreconcilable differences, and then there is what sisters Yoli (Alison Pill) and Elf (Sarah Gadon) face in Michael McGowan's sobering, but somewhat...
Review: ‘The Card Counter’Oscar Isaac And Tiffany Haddish Are Dealt A Winning Hand In...
Paul Schrader's late career resurgence began with First Reformed, a story of obsession and religious chaos that was one of the best movies of the...
Review: ‘Kate’Mary Elizabeth Winstead Slices Through Tokyo In Netflix's Splashy Vengeance Thriller
Mary Elizabeth Winstead has long been overdue for the revenge thriller role she got to chew on in Kate. She's been teasing just this...