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Review: Steven Soderbergh Crafts a Spy Thriller with Relationship Drama and a Dash of Comedy in Black Bag

Early in Black Bag, the latest from director Steven Soderbergh and screenwriter David Koepp (who together made this year’s fantastic ghost story Presence, as well as the 2022 thriller Kimi), […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 14, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Two Childhood Friends Reconnect in The Wasp, a Thriller That Stings

    The latest work from Spanish-born director Guillem Morales (Julia’s Eyes) begins as a domestic drama with Heather (Naomie Harris) engaged in an almost psychotic war with the occasional wasp that […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • August 30, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: A Powerful Performance from Mahershala Ali Is at the Center of Sci-Fi Swan Song

    Swan Song

    The thrill of watching Mahershala Ali in any role has only grown over the last couple of years, so the prospect of getting two of him in one movie is […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 18, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: No Time to Die Is a Fitting, if Slightly Too Long, Farewell to the Best Bond of the Franchise

    No Time to Die

    I spent a long time trying to figure out how to tackle a review of a film that is less a traditional James Bond movie and more a victory lap, […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • October 8, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Venom: Let There Be Carnage Makes Silly Work of Tom Hardy’s Marvel Super-Villain

    Venom Let There Be Carnage

    The best thing I can say about this sequel to 2018’s super-villain movie Venom is that Venom: Let There Be Carnage is a better movie than that sloppy, unfunny and ugly […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • October 1, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Chicago Takes a Beating in Entertaining, Pointless Rampage

    Rampage

    It’s been since 2011’s Transformers: Dark of the Moon that Chicago has taken a epic-sized, big-budgeted walloping the way it does in the video game-inspired Rampage. But something curious happened […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 12, 2018
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV

    Film Review: Collateral Beauty, Gross and Ill Conceived

    Sometimes a movie is bad just because it’s bad, and sometimes it’s bad because it wants so passionately to be good that it chokes on its noble intentions. The last […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 16, 2016
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