This Chinese film set in, of all places, the labyrinthian city of Wuhan, is a modern noir thriller and a terrific mystery, told partially in flashback. It begins when a woman meets […]
The latest entry in the horror-comedy genre is the slightly lightweight but still enjoyable We Summon the Darkness, from director Marc Meyers (My Friend Dahmer, Human Capital) and writer Alan Trezza (Burying […]
It’s difficult to believe that it has been four years since the original Trolls movie was released and turned into a legitimate hit. That was due in large part to its insanely […]
Quite often, documentaries built around political themes have a long list of grievances but not a lot when it comes to solutions to the multitude problems being presented. The compelling film Slay […]
Almost Love, the feature directorial debut from actor-turned-filmmaker Mike Doyle is an often playful but sometimes overly serious look at the shelf life of even the best of relationships. We enter this […]
While I’ve never been a fan of weird for weirdness’s sake, I do tend to enjoy it when there’s a touch of mischief—or even a dark streak—running through it. In director Lorcan […]
Depending on how you look at it, this is either a very good or very bad week to be Jesse Eisenberg. He has not one, but two new movies being released into […]
So much of what makes the debut feature from writing/directing team Bridget Savage Cole (The Distance Between the Apple and the Tree) and Danielle Krudy is its sense of place. There is […]
[Editors Note: Starting this week, Third Coast’s film coverage will shift to streaming options in order to continue to deliver critical takes on the latest films until cinemas re-open. We’ll indicate in […]
Quite often, when producer Jason Blum presents something controversially topical, we get The Purge franchise. But every once in a while, we also get Get Out. Blum may not have anything to […]
Some are better than others, but I don’t think director Kelly Reichardt has made a bad movie. From her debut with the recently restored and reissued River of Grass, Old Joy, and […]
We’ve almost reached a point now (and perhaps some reached it long ago) where we’re going to start wondering if certain films that we want to see are worth risking our health […]
