GRINGA– 3 STARS Gringa gives us a film to appreciate the unheralded talent of Steve Zahn. For many movie fans, he’s a 90s/00s “That Guy.” He has built an extremely successful career playing dependable supporting
TO CATCH A KILLER– 2 STARS To Catch a Killer unravels to become one of those manhunt movies where the pursuit is better than the prize at the end. Wild Tales director Damien Szifron provides
PETER PAN AND WENDY— 4 STARS Thanks to its period setting, David Lowery’s Peter Pan & Wendy taps into a lost art of childhood that has diminished in the last few decades. The film opens
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3– 3 STARS There’s a recurring gag, one of many in James Gunn’s trilogy finale Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, where a wild dramatic videogame-worthy move of some kind
A TOURIST’S GUIDE TO LOVE– 3 STARS In 2022, for the fourth time in five years, the country of Vietnam was named “Asia’s Leading Destination” by the World Travel Awards. Because of that stunning chosen
WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?— 3 STARS Because the lead is an aspiring documentary filmmaker chronicling the unique familial experiences of marriage, What’s Love Got to Do With It? is structured to include
THE WIND AND THE RECKONING–4 STARS One of the most appreciable traits about movies is their ability to give faces and voices to human history across a myriad of cultures and time periods. If you
HYPNOTIC— 1 STAR Robert Rodriguez’s Hypnotic situates itself as a shining example of over-explanation messing up promising ideas. It should come as no surprise to those who have enjoyed the filmmaker’s distinctive works over the
WHITE MEN CAN’T JUMP– 2 STARS One has to at least hope that some form of wisdom coming from the passage of time goes into the filmmakers inspired to remake a well-known movie. Here we
THE LITTLE MERMAID– 3 STARS Putting my school teacher hat on to match the spirit of this website, The Little Mermaid, like every movie really, is, for better or worse, a series of tests. It