‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Finale Review: “The Rescue”
When Star Wars is at its best, I'm not sure there's anything that measures up. At least for me, nothing puts me on a...
Review: ‘Greenland’Gerard Butler's Latest Disaster Thriller Benefits From Small-Scale Focus
While Greenland may look like the typical "Gerard Butler saves the world from disaster" movie, it's definitely a cut above. Directed by Ric Roman...
Review: ‘Promising Young Woman’Carey Mulligan Demands To Be Heard In Raging #MeToo Revenge Tale
NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Sundance Film Festival.*
If Emerald Fennell’s raging #MeToo era revenge film Promising Young Woman was just Carey...
Review: ‘Skylin3s’Quietly One Of The Best Sci-Fi Franchises Around
Little did I, or anyone for that matter, know that 2010's forgettable alien invasion film Skyline would be the launch of one of the...
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?...
‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Episode 7 Review: “The Believer”
Somehow this episode wasn't titled "The Unmasked", but it probably should've been. Following two straight weeks of fan-servicey reveals, and one kidnapped Grogu, this...
Review: ‘Let Them All Talk’Steven Soderbergh Steers Meryl Streep Through A Leisurely Story Of...
The delicious irony of Steven Soderbergh's breezy return to form, Let Them All Talk, is that nobody is trying to say much of anything....
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: ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’Chadwick Boseman And Viola Davis Highlight A Big, Bold, Bluesy...
It's tough to watch Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, George C. Wolfe's adaptation of the August Wilson play, without recognizing it as the final screen...
Review: ‘Wander Darkly’Sienna Miller And Diego Luna Lead A Trippy Romance Wrapped In An...
Like a grim reflection of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Tara Miele's absorbing-but-unfocused Wander Darkly explores memory, trauma, and grief through the lens...