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Sunday, October 30, 2022

Till is a deeply human biopic with a mesmerizing lead performance

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  Mamie Till (Danielle Deadwyler) was insistent to her son, Emmett Till (Jalyn Hall), that he be careful when going down to visit cousins in...
Saturday, October 29, 2022

The Inspection excels in its acting and writing

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  The quietly thoughtful nature of The Inspection is communicated almost right from the start of Elegance Bratton's screenplay (he also...
Sunday, October 23, 2022

Triangle of Sadness is a sometimes rocky but always compelling voyage

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  In talking about why  Titanic  proved so interesting to moviegoers, writer/director James Cameron has said that he saw the ship as functi...
Monday, October 17, 2022

Empire of Light is a bit dim when it comes to being a cohesive movie

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In one of its many scenes that could’ve functioned fine as an ending, Empire of Life contains a scene where movie theater employee Hilary S...
Saturday, October 15, 2022

Tár hits a high note with its thoughtful and captivating filmmaking

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Toward the end of Tár , titular protagonist Lydia Tár (Cate Blanchett) is watching an ancient video of a conductor talking about what makes ...
Thursday, October 13, 2022

Halloween Ends SPOILER THOUGHTS

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MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR HALLOWEEN ENDS ARE BELOW! READ ON AT YOUR DISCRETION!

Halloween Ends sends the Halloween saga out on an unfocused whimper

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  "Maybe it's time to let the old ways die." - Jackson Maine (Bradley Cooper), A Star is Born I love how horror films can comb...
Tuesday, October 11, 2022

The Banshees of Inisherin brilliantly contemplates the conflict-driven nature of humanity

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  All throughout writer/director Martin McDonagh's The Banshees of Inisherin , the Irish Civil War rages on in the background. Both the ...
Thursday, October 6, 2022

Javier Bardem can only liven up Lyle Lyle Crocodile so much

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If Disney wants to focus on Marvel movies and live-action remakes when it comes to big-screen features, then I guess other studios will have...
Monday, October 3, 2022

The laughs are quite enjoyable in the flawed rom-com Bros

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In many ways,  Bros looks like the future of mainstream movies. As its marketing has proudly trumpeted, this is one of the first major studi...
Saturday, September 17, 2022

Blonde is more draining than compelling

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  Andrew Dominik is not an upbeat filmmaker. His directorial works, up to this point, pretty much laugh at the idea of frivolity. That's...

The Woman King reigns supreme as crowdpleaser entertainment done right

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  Director Gina Prince-bythewood knows how to make satisfying crowdpleasers. That's a much more difficult task than it may sound on pape...
Tuesday, September 13, 2022

Barbarian is an entertaining and chilling romp best experienced unspoiled

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I don't really know where to begin reviewing a movie like Barbarian . Everyone whose already written lengthy paragraphs about this movie...
Sunday, September 11, 2022

Don't Worry Darling is messy, but not without charms

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As Don't Worry Darling begins, 1950s housewife Alice Chambers (Florence Pugh) is playing a drinking game with her husband Jack (Harry S...
Thursday, September 8, 2022

Micro-Reviews: Moving Edition

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I'm moving into my first-ever apartment on Friday! It's a very exciting moment, I'm so stoked that, after year of searching for ...
Sunday, September 4, 2022

Regina Hall excels in the darkly comedic mockumentary Honk for Jesus, Save Your Soul

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Trinitie Childs (Regina Hall) and Lee-Curtis Childs (Sterling K. Brown) used to be on top of the world. The main subjects of the mockumentar...