Review: ‘Bad Hair’ Justin Simien’s Killer Weave Horror Is A Tangled Treat
*NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Sundance Film Festival. Bad Hair opens on Hulu on October 23rd.*
When a black woman...
Review: ‘The True Adventures Of Wolfboy’A Surreal Coming-Of-Age Fairy Tale About Finding Self-Worth In...
At a time when demonizing the "other" is running rampant, a heartwarming film about self-acceptance is a welcome treat. The True Adventures of Wolfboy...
Review: ‘Let Him Go’Diane Lane And Kevin Costner Speak Softly And Carry A Big...
Say what you will about Man of Steel (and trust me, people have), one thing it got absolutely right was the casting of Diane...
Review: ‘Freaky’Vince Vaughn Is At His Scariest As A Teenage Girl In This Wild,...
Nobody makes horror movies fun quite like Christopher Landon. The Paranormal Activity filmmaker leapt from those found-footage flicks into lighter genre fare with Scouts...
Review: ‘Mank’Gary Oldman Shines In David Fincher's Immersive, Darkly Comic Love Letter To One...
Citizen Kane is one of those films every critic is intimately familiar with. You can't have gotten very far without tangling with it at some...
‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Episode 4 Review: ‘The Siege’
After last week's excellent episode of The Mandalorian and its exciting tease of Ahsoka Tano, I joked that we probably wouldn't see her any time...
Review: ‘Embattled’Stephen Dorff Pulls No Punches In MMA Drama That Looks Beyond The Cage
Brash, arrogant, casually racist and abusive towards women, Stephen Dorff channels the attitude of Conor McGregor to a tee in Embattled, an MMA drama...
Review: ‘Sound Of Metal’Riz Ahmed Delivers Raw, Ferocious Performance As A Drummer Coping With...
*NOTE: This is a reprint from my review from the Middleburg Film Festival.*
The title Sound of Metal has a double meaning in Darius Marder’s tremendous feature...
Review: ‘Let Them All Talk’Steven Soderbergh Steers Meryl Streep Through A Leisurely Story Of...
The delicious irony of Steven Soderbergh's breezy return to form, Let Them All Talk, is that nobody is trying to say much of anything....
Review: ‘Skylin3s’Quietly One Of The Best Sci-Fi Franchises Around
Little did I, or anyone for that matter, know that 2010's forgettable alien invasion film Skyline would be the launch of one of the...