Review: ‘I’m Thinking Of Ending Things’Charlie Kaufman's Weird, Beautiful, Funny Examination Of Love And...
Nothing is ever as it seems in a Charlie Kaufman movie. That's a simple disclaimer that could apply to just about film, but it's...
Review: ‘Mulan’Disney's Sweeping Wuxia Fairy Tale Is Their Best Remake Yet
Disney's long-anticipated, longer-than-expected anyway, remake of Mulan opens with a sweeping, grande journey through an ancient Chinese village. Such a vast introduction was clearly...
Review: ‘The Broken Hearts Gallery’Geraldine Viswanathan And Dacre Montgomery Find Humor After Heartbreak
The Broken Hearts Gallery isn't a movie that would normally blink too hard on my radar, but there's one reason it did and one...
Review: ‘The Devil All The Time’A Star-Studded Cast Fails To Energize Antonio Campos' Passionless...
It should be an easy home run. Antonio Campos' starry, swampy Southern gothic The Devil All the Time has so many tools the indie,...
Review: ‘The Secrets We Keep’Noomi Rapace And Joel Kinnaman Lead A Thoughtful, Uneven Thriller...
Perhaps no actor better embodies a woman's vengeful thirst against violent, misogynistic men than Noomi Rapace, who has gravitated to such roles ever since...
Review: ‘Lost Girls & Love Hotels’Alexandra Daddario Goes Fifty Shades In A Japanese Drama...
In the opening moments of William Olsson's Lost Girls & Love Hotels, American ex-pat Margaret (a game Alexandra Daddario) staggers through the back alleys...
Review: ‘The Nest’Jude Law And Carrie Coon’s World Crumbles In Sean Durkin’s Chilling Family...
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Sundance Film Festival.*
The opening moments of Sean Durkin’s devastatingly precise family drama The Nest are shot...
Review: ‘The Swerve’A Withering, Devastating Look At A Mother's Decline Into Madness
I've been left a little bit stunned by The Swerve, Dean Kapsalis' feature debut and a shocking, heartbreaking look at a mother's spiral into...
Review: ‘Enola Holmes’Millie Bobby Brown Cracks Cases And Wins Hearts As Sherlock Holmes' Fearless...
Sherlock Holmes has been re-envisioned in dozens of different ways. One of the enduring features of the character is that he can be changed,...
Review: ‘Blackbird’Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, And Mia Wasikowska Lead A Trite End-Of-Life Dramedy
Family get-togethers, particularly around the holidays, can lead only to an equal amount of nostalgia and squabbling. That's just the way these things go...