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Wednesday, March 29, 2023

A Thousand and One is a sprawling narrative that never loses a sense of intimacy

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The expansive narrative of A Thousand and One , the feature-length directorial debut of writer/director A.V. Rockwell, begins in the 1990s....
Monday, March 27, 2023

It'd take more than blowing on a cartridge to improve Tetris

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  Video game movies don't have the best track record in terms of overall quality. Tetris , a feature about the creation of this game and...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Keanu Reeves and company remain as violently fun as ever in John Wick: Chapter 4

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  More movies should begin with as dramatic of a bang as John Wick: Chapter 4. No expository narration or inexplicable poorly-edited chase ...
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Inside has an interesting starting premise, but lackluster execution

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Nemo (Willem Dafoe) is stuck. The protagonist of the thriller Inside , Nemo was just trying to snag a couple of high-value paintings from a ...
Saturday, March 11, 2023

Champions is too derivative and outdated to get you cheering

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  In this remake of the 2018 Spain film Campeones , Champions chronicles basketball coach Marcus (Woody Harrelson), who always had difficult...
Thursday, March 2, 2023

Aubrey Plaza and Hugh Grant can only do so much to liven up Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre

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Orson Fortune (Jason Statham) is a master spy. He's also the lead character of the new Guy Ritchie movie  Operation Fortune: Ruse de Gue...
Thursday, February 23, 2023

Cocaine Bear gets grisly in all the right ways

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Drugs can make you do wild, unpredictable things. But even the wildest party animals in the 1980s could never imagine the kind of drug-fuele...
Sunday, February 19, 2023

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania wants to soar but never feels comfortable in its own skin

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In the book Nobody Does it Better: The Complete, Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of James Bond by Edward Gross and Mark A. Altman, th...
Tuesday, February 14, 2023

Of an Age is a bittersweet ode to the little moments that last a lifetime

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  Of an Age begins with 17-year-old Kol (Elias Anton) in 1999 racing around his house looking for everything he'll need for his costume...
Monday, February 13, 2023

Knock at the Cabin is worth a visit for M. Night Shyamalan and Dave Bautista devotees

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Knock at the Cabin begins with grasshoppers. Youngster Wen (Kirsten Cui) is catching them in a jar while on vacation in a cabin with her dad...
Monday, January 30, 2023

80 for Brady is an agreeable, though not especially memorable, star-studded comedy

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  The trailer and other marketing materials for 80 for Brady offer a fairly accurate picture of what to expect from this comedy. This is a...
Saturday, January 21, 2023

95th Academy Awards nominations predictions

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An image from Moonfall, one of the most likely movies to prominently factor into the 95th Academy Awards nominations. Well, it's time ag...

Some decent chuckles can't erase the major writing problems in You People

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Kenya Barris has carved out a TV empire for himself thanks to being the creator of Black-ish and two of its spin-offs as well as an executiv...
Sunday, January 8, 2023

Disastrous high frame rate aside, Avatar: The Way of Water is another remarkable James Cameron epic

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In 2010, Brad Paisley released a cheeky country song called "Water." A simple title for an exceedingly simple song designed from ...
Saturday, December 31, 2022

A Man Called Otto isn't essential, but it is moving more often than not

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CW: Discussion of suicide ahead While it's always good to see Tom Hanks in anything, A Man Called Otto can't help but feel, on the ...