Review: ‘Penguin Bloom’Naomi Watts Gets Upstaged By A Magpie In This Inspirational, Heavy-Handed Recovery...
The story of a paralyzed woman who bounces back with the help of a curious, equally-broken bird named Penguin sounds like either SNL parody...
Review: ‘The White Tiger’Ramin Bahrani's Economic Satire Is Part Dickens, Part 'Scarface'
The rage of India's permanent underclass fuels Ramin Bahrani's The White Tiger, a sharp, witty crime drama that's like Dickens with a little bit...
Review: ‘Outside The Wire’Anthony Mackie Is An Advanced Android Soldier In An Efficient Sci-Fi...
Netflix's latest "quick grab" action flick Outside the Wire is a hodge-podge of various military scare-tactic films. You've got Terminator and the fear of...
Review: ‘We Can Be Heroes’Robert Rodriguez And A Fresh-Faced Cast Lead Netflix's Tween Superhero...
There’s two different versions of director Robert Rodriquez: one for older folks, and one for children. For those a little older and prone to...
Review: ‘Bridgerton’Shondaland's First Netflix Series Is Sexy And Salacious Fun
Ladies (and Gentlemen, it's 2020 and dudes can watch historical romance if they want to. Screw gender norms.) If you were planning on watching...
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?...
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: ‘Mank’Gary Oldman Shines In David Fincher's Immersive, Darkly Comic Love Letter To One...
Citizen Kane is one of those films every critic is intimately familiar with. You can't have gotten very far without tangling with it at some...
Review: ‘The Queen’s Gambit’Anya Taylor-Joy Has All The Right Moves As A Tortured Yet...
While the game of chess requires great skill, concentration, adaptation, strategy, and countless other cerebral abilities, it’s often thought of a long and boring...
Review: ‘The Trial Of The Chicago 7’Aaron Sorkin's Timely, Rousing Courtroom Drama Is One...
Leave it to Aaron Sorkin to energize what might've been a stiff, paint-by-numbers courtroom drama the way he did three decades ago with A...