Review: ‘Jackass Forever’Bodily Harm And Bodily Fluids In Surprisingly Nostalgic Sequel
Jackass Forever isn't one of those movies you can truly review, is it? In the unlikely franchise's two-decade-long existence I've never actually done it,...
Review: ‘Moonfall’Roland Emmerich Makes A Movie About The Moon Crashing To Earth Surprisingly Forgettable
When you hear the term "disaster movie", I bet the first director who pops into your head is Roland Emmerich. That's for good reason;...
Sundance Review: ‘blood’Carla Juri Muddles Through Japan In Bradley Rust Gray's Meandering Drama About...
One of my favorite jokes from the first Deadpool comic book series is "The melodic sound of gunfire, the international language." It doesn't matter...
Sundance Review: ‘God’s Country’Thandiwe Newton Battles Racism And Red State Politics In A Tense,...
Race 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...
Sundance Review: ‘You Won’t Be Alone’Noomi Rapace, Alice Englert, And Others Play A Shapeshifting...
The use of witches in indie horrors has grown steadily since the breakout success of Robert Eggers' The Witch, so much so that it's...
Sundance Review: ‘Am I OK?’Dakota Johnson Finds Humor And Heart In Tig Notaro And...
The "coming out" film is a tried-and-true staple, typically focused on teens who are just beginning to explore their sexual identity. That might be...
Sundance Review: ‘Emily The Criminal’Aubrey Plaza Scams The System In Tense, Riveting Working Class...
Aubrey Plaza isn't who I would think of as a dangerous, working class Scarface, but after John Patton Ford's effectively tense Emily the Criminal,...
Sundance Review: ‘Resurrection’Rebecca Hall And Tim Roth Play Head Games In Andrew Semans' Grotesquely...
There's something about the way Margaret (Rebecca Hall) offers advice to a naive co-worker about her abusive boyfriend. It sounds authoritative, too much so,...
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: ‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’Cooper Raiff And Dakota Johnson Get The Party Jumpin'...
There's a good chance people will be turned off by the gentle, nakedly earnest comedies by Cooper Raiff. A breakout award-winner at SXSW for...