Review: A Town in Decline Gets a Shot at First Place in Feel-Good, if Lightweight, Dream Horse
A few months ago, in my review of the Netflix drama The Dig, I discussed my love of a certain type of British film that was popular in the 1990s. […]
Review: Australian Crime Drama The Dry Solves Two Mysteries in the Midst of Drought and Despair
It’s been four years since I’ve seen actor Eric Bana in a film, and the film was one (Guy Ritchie’s appalling King Arthur: Legend of the Sword) I didn’t even […]
Review: Danish Revenge Thriller Riders of Justice Balances Action, Relationships and Mads Mikkelsen’s Characteristic Intensity
Although he’s made his living primarily as a writer, Danish filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen has made a handful of really bizarre and mind-bending films (The Green Butchers, Adam’s Apple, Men […]
Review: If Not a Deep Dive Into Her Life and Work, All I Know So Far Showcases P!nk’s Immense Talent and Parenting Skills
P!nk (real name: Alecia Moore) is an artist whose music I’ve always enjoyed, yet I’ve never purchased or streamed a single album or song by her because her work is […]
Review: Simon Barrett’s Seance Is Full of Mood, Mystery and Predictably Mean Girls
You have to ask yourself, at a certain point while watching Seance, how many bodies have to pile up before someone decides to shut down the prestigious Edelvine Academy for […]
Review: Though Familiar, A Quiet Place Part II Scares and Surprises Enough To Warrant A Big Screen Experience
The justification for making A Quiet Place Part II is simple: the first film was about what brave and strong parents Lee and Evelyn Abbott (real-life married couple John Krasinski […]
Review: In Perfumes, an Unlikely Friendship Helps Two Lost Souls Find Their Way Forward
A doyenne of French cinema teams up with a relatively new French filmmaker and the result is something entirely French and entirely charming. Perfumes (or the more French Les Parfums) is a […]
Review: New Filmmaking Duo Centers Horror Film The Djinn on Emotions as Much as on Scares
The Djinn is the kind of movie that proves that big budgets and a marquee cast are sometimes just icing on the independent filmmaking cake and that a perfectly entertaining […]
Review: Amy Adams Deserves Better than the Messy Mystery at the Center of The Woman in the Window
It’s always disappointing when a film doesn’t live up to expectations; it’s exponentially worse when that film comes from a filmmaker who is clearly capable of great things on screen. […]
Review: Barely a Saw Movie at All, Spiral Disappoints Across the Board
My brain is still attempting to understand how Spiral is a Saw movie at all. Okay yes, it takes place in the same universe as the original Jigsaw killings. And […]
Review: The Killing of Two Lovers Goes Deep Inside Its Character’s Trauma, Heartache and Struggle
This is a good week for films with captivating opening sequences. In the latest work from Robert Machoian, The Killing of Two Lovers, we open with an image of David […]
Review: In Profile, an Undercover Journalist Embeds in a World of Extremism and Human Trafficking
From frequently kinetic action director Timur Bekmambetov (Night Watch, Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter; Wanted) comes a film that is much more about igniting your synapsis from anxiety and dread than […]