Review: ‘Shirley’Elisabeth Moss Uses A Toxic Friendship To Fuel Her Creative Genius
*NOTE: This review was originally run during the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.*
A traditional biopic from Josephine Decker, the filmmaker whose Madeline's Madeline is one...
Review: ‘The Hunt’Blumhouse's Controversial Political Satire Destroys Deplorables And Snowflakes Alike
“Liberal Hollywood is Racist at the highest level, and with great Anger and Hate! They like to call themselves ‘Elite,’ but they are not...
Review: ‘The King Of Staten Island’Pete Davidson Grows Up In Judd Apatow's Best Comedy...
In The King of Staten Island, Pete Davidson plays an irresponsible manchild with few prospects, fewer social graces, and yet everybody seems to love...
Review: ‘Da 5 Bloods’Spike Lee's Timely, Compelling War Film Explores The Legacy Of Race...
There was a stretch when Spike Lee seemed to have lost his voice. During that time he became, what I feel, was a very...
Review: ‘The Outpost’Rod Lurie Delivers A Visceral Recreation Of The Bloody Battle Of Kamdesh
It takes nearly an hour into Rod Lurie's stunning war film The Outpost to get to the actual Battle of Kamdesh, but at no...
Review: ‘Swallow’Haley Bennett Shines As A Desperate Housewife With A Stomach-Turning Secret
If you've never heard of Pica, the disorder which causes someone to ingest things that aren't meant to be eaten, prepare to get a...
Review: ‘I Am Vengeance: Retaliation’Stu Bennett And Vinnie Jones Trade Punches In An Old...
I am Vengeance was an old school kick-in-the-face for genre fans, and for most people probably their introduction to Stu "Bad News Barrett" Bennett,...
Review: ‘Bull’Rob Morgan Gets A Rare Shot At The Spotlight In Anna Silverstein's Stirring...
"Get up fast when you fall", says Abe Turner (Rob Morgan) in Bull, Annie Silverstein's striking, sensitive look at masculinity and disenfranchisement in the...
Review: ‘The Way Back’Ben Affleck Scores A Slam Dunk In Sobering Redemption Story
As if answering critics of his sleepy-eyed performance in The Last Thing He Wanted, Ben Affleck makes one Hell of a rebound with The...
Review: ‘All Day And A Night’'Black Panther' Writer's Netflix Drama Traps Ashton Sanders And...
One might look for a superheroic tale of escape from societal disenfranchisement in Black Panther writer Joe Robert Cole's subdued, highly recognizable directorial debut,...