Review: Nobody 2 Waters Down the Brutal Fun, Novel Concept of the Original
A part of the success of the 2021 film Nobody likely had something to do with the novelty that it’s the story of a seemingly ordinary man fighting like a […]
Review: Strange Harvest Fakes a Convincing True-Crime Doc—Until It Doesn’t
Told in the framework of a somewhat convincing faux true-crime documentary, writer-director Stuart Ortiz’s (Grave Encounters), Strange Harvest tells the story of a pair of detectives—Joe Kirby (Peter Zizzo) and […]
Review: Descendent Is a Mind-Bending Thriller That Frustrates as Much as It Intrigues
Written and directed by actor-turned-director Peter Cilella (marking his feature debut behind the camera), Descendent is one of those suspense films that deliberately blurs the line between the lead character’s […]
Review: Weapons Turns Small-Town Horror Into a Gruesome, Genre-Bending Mystery
In 2022, for reasons that are still a mystery to some, writer/director Zach Cregger’s twisty, bizarre Barbarian became something of a hit among even non-horror enthusiasts, perhaps because it leaned […]
Review: Freakier Friday Is a Sequel Nobody Asked For—and It Shows
In August of 2003, Lindsay Lohan was seventeen years old and at the nascent days of her teen stardom; she’d starred (twice, technically) in Disney’s 1998 remake of The Parent […]
Review: Sketch Mixes Magic, Grief, and Big Emotions in a Thoughtful Family Tale
The average moviegoer likely doesn’t pay much attention to which studio is behind releasing the movie they’re forking over their hard-earned money to see. Sure, there’s the Marvels and A24s […]
Review: The Pick-Up Pairs Eddie Murphy and Pete Davidson in a Clunky Caper
Director Tim Story is the king of two-film franchises. He helmed such series as the original Fantastic Four films, the Think Like A Man twofer, and the Ride Along movies, […]
Review: Taran Egerton Takes the Wheel in She Rides Shotgun, a Gritty Yet Predictable Ride
She Rides Shotgun, directed by Nick Rowland, is a crime thriller that, in many ways, feels familiar: a lovable, broken hero, a seemingly impossible goal, and—no spoilers—a painfully predictable ending. […]
Review: Architecton Finds Poetry in Concrete, Stone, and a World in Transition
A few years ago, filmmaker Victor Kossakovsky made the beautifully photographed and extraordinary Gunda, a documentary about the lives of farm animals that has stuck with me since I first […]
Review: The Naked Gun Revives Goofy Comedy—and Liam Neeson Nails the Punchlines
Without giving away my age, I’ll say that in 1988, I was far too young to see the original David Zucker comedy The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police […]
Review: Together Turns Co-Dependency Into Creepy, Cronenberg-Style Romance
Both an intense love story and a horror-tinged cautionary tale about relationships that are based on co-dependency, Together, the feature debut from Australian writer/director Michael Shanks, concerns a young couple, […]
Review: The Bad Guys 2 Brings Big Voice Talent to a So-So Story
In this sequel to the moderately popular 2022 original, The Bad Guys 2 follows the crew of animated animal villains (former villains, actually) down their new path of being Good […]