Review: ‘I’m Thinking Of Ending Things’Charlie Kaufman's Weird, Beautiful, Funny Examination Of Love And...
Nothing is ever as it seems in a Charlie Kaufman movie. That's a simple disclaimer that could apply to just about film, but it's...
Review: ‘Tenet’Christopher Nolan's Anticipated Spy Film Is A Diabolical And Confounding Spectacle
If it feels like most of 2020 has been about the when, where, and why of Christopher Nolan's Tenet, you aren't far off. After numerous...
Review: ‘Bill & Ted Face The Music’A Mostly Excellent Sequel And A Poignant Passing...
The arrival of Bill & Ted Face the Music didn't energize me the way it did fans of the cult favorite 1980s comedies, Bill & Ted's...
Review: ‘The New Mutants’Untapped Potential Weighs Down Josh Boone's Junior X-Men Movie
Is it possible to review The New Mutants without going back into its long-troubled history? Maybe so, if the film didn't constantly remind you of it...
Review: ‘Centigrade’Genesis Rodriguez Compels In A Dreary Snowbound Thriller
Of the many thriller sub-genres, the contained survival thriller, or the "small box thriller" as I like to call them, is a particular favorite....
Review: ‘The Binge’Hulu's Teen Comedy Of Indulgence Doesn't Get Drunk Or High Enough
The brilliance of Blumhouse's The Purge franchise isn't that it imagines a country where all violence crime is legal for a single day of...
Review: ‘The Personal History Of David Copperfield’Armando Ianucci Smartly Reinvents The Dickens Classic For...
As the man behind such biting political satires as In the Loop and Veep, Armando Iannucci makes an interesting choice for an adaptation of...
Review: ‘Peninsula’'Train To Busan' Sequel Is Straight Zombie Spectacle, But Not Much Else
Remember a few months ago, back at the beginning of our long global COVID nightmare, when you'd see images of vacant cities, empty buildings,...
Review: ‘Cut Throat City’RZA Crafts A Rewarding, Cumbersome Big Easy Gangster Epic
The Wizard of Oz plays an unexpectedly large role in RZA's New Orleans crime epic, Cut Throat City. The second film in days set...
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...