Wendell & Wild Movie Review: A Largely Bland and Stale Halloween Treat
Review: Wendell & Wild gets lost in its own themes – a muddy movie with an odd sense of pacing. Henry Selick was stuck in director jail for years, giving him too much time to
Review: Wendell & Wild gets lost in its own themes – a muddy movie with an odd sense of pacing. Henry Selick was stuck in director jail for years, giving him too much time to
Review: When Black Adam isn’t trying to piece together narrative fragments into a puzzle without any inside pieces, it’s cramming in every genre trope at its disposal. The action is clunky and unengaging and relentless, bludgeoning you
Dual Movie Review Dual is bleak. And by bleak, I mean bleak. Riley Stearns (The Art of Self-Defense and Faults) excels in this field. His films bask in off-kilter, dry-as-can-be comedy and dread. The Art of Self-Defense was a pleasant surprise in 2019, but
Review: She Said hits many familiar beats that its contemporary journalism films do, but it struggles to build its own emotional weight behind one-note characters and a lack of effortless momentum. It’s working a genre
Movie Review: Black Panther: Wakanda Forever has enough heart and emotion packed in for general audiences to be won over and enamored by. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever The margin for error in Ryan Coogler’s sequel
Directed by James Gray and Stars Banks Repeta, Anne Hathaway and Anthony Hopkins Armageddon Time In any profile you read or listen to with James Gray, the sincerity reigns true about his passions. As a craftsman
Triangle of Sadness When a film wins the Palme d’Or, the expectations become clear. Realistically, it could be the first steppingstone towards a best picture race. More recently, being awarded Cannes’ feature prize has meant
Review: Top Gun: Maverick ushers in the newfound possibility that movie theaters aren’t doomed after all. A ballistic jolt to the blockbuster formula courtesy of (of course) Tom Cruise. Tom Cruise in Top Gun: Maverick (2022) It
Review: Violent Night delivers the bloody hardcore experience that it promised in its marketing, and David Harbour leaps off the screen. Violent Night Movie Review It’s easy to see the influences that Violent Night wears on its sleeve.
“Sr.” In many ways, Chris Smith’s newest documentary “Sr.” pulls at you from one emotional beat to the next. Documenting an individual with a rich history like Robert Downey Sr. – an acclaimed independent director of films likes