“It’s easy to leave the film believing that Fennell may be a better writer than expectation setter, and somehow bad at both.”
Read More“…Crime 101 is a reliably well-oiled machine that, given its intimidating two-hour and twenty-minute runtime, moves fast and looks good doing it.”
Read MoreThe Odyssey, Dune: Part Three, The Drama, Mother Mary, and The Bride! are most definitely at the top of my watchlist, but here are a few others you may have not heard about that you should want to keep an eye out for.
Read More“It is a film that is constantly selling. Fitting for a story dealing with the world of professional sports, but only slightly less bleak than the ads for different AI platforms that inundated the entire Super Bowl.”
Read More“Kogonada is skillfully able to pull the viewer out of one’s head and remind us that we’re all specs of of the same universe.”
Read More“Setting aside the plethora of issues that plague this movie, Whistle just…isn’t scary.”
Read More“For what appears to be a lower budget than Verbinski usually works with, he makes the most of it with his trademark blue-tinged visual aesthetics and playful energy. “
Read More“Like so many other films released this time of year, this one is not great, but it's also too well intentioned and too well cast to be entirely discounted.”
Read More“So rarely do we get a story like Pillion that is entirely comfortable dwelling in the ambiguity that stems from living a marginalized lifestyle.”
Read More“[Mark] Fischbach’s overzealous attempt to craft a complex character driven story around the lore of a 2022 indie video game - essentially a windowless submarine simulator - sinks.”
Read More“Wonder Man is a pure passion project driven by a desire to make everyone who has somehow stuck around feel something again.”
Read More“Strap in: you never know what Drax and the guy who almost got cast as Drax are going to say next.”
Read More“…a brisk pace and two lead performances dialed up to 11 will keep your attention.”
Read More“In an era where it feels like the old guard of horror is gone…it’s a pleasure to have someone like Sam Raimi come in to show everybody else how it’s done.”
Read More“The Rip may not reach the heights of some of the other action and crime films these men have starred in, but it is certainly of a higher caliber than Netflix usually goes for.”
Read More“In the hands of a lesser filmmaker, ‘28 Years Later: The Bone Temple’ could’ve had the stink of a direct-to-DVD sequel, but instead exceeds (and subverts) all expectations.”
Read More“…’People We Meet On Vacation’ is a fine movie, but that's all it is. It's never challenging, surprising, or remarkable in any way, except maybe for the aforementioned attractive people.”
Read More“…on the whole this series has devolved into dour sludge, decaying alongside the world it depicts.”
Read More“…none of the emotional beats in We Bury The Dead hold a candle to the heartbreaking apocalyptic family saga that Danny Boyle began in 28 Years Later earlier this year.”
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