Review: ‘Bill & Ted Face The Music’A Mostly Excellent Sequel And A Poignant Passing...
The arrival of Bill & Ted Face the Music didn't energize me the way it did fans of the cult favorite 1980s comedies, Bill & Ted's...
Review: ‘The New Mutants’Untapped Potential Weighs Down Josh Boone's Junior X-Men Movie
Is it possible to review The New Mutants without going back into its long-troubled history? Maybe so, if the film didn't constantly remind you of it...
Review: ‘Centigrade’Genesis Rodriguez Compels In A Dreary Snowbound Thriller
Of the many thriller sub-genres, the contained survival thriller, or the "small box thriller" as I like to call them, is a particular favorite....
Review: ‘The Binge’Hulu's Teen Comedy Of Indulgence Doesn't Get Drunk Or High Enough
The brilliance of Blumhouse's The Purge franchise isn't that it imagines a country where all violence crime is legal for a single day of...
Review: ‘The Personal History Of David Copperfield’Armando Ianucci Smartly Reinvents The Dickens Classic For...
As the man behind such biting political satires as In the Loop and Veep, Armando Iannucci makes an interesting choice for an adaptation of...
Review: ‘Peninsula’'Train To Busan' Sequel Is Straight Zombie Spectacle, But Not Much Else
Remember a few months ago, back at the beginning of our long global COVID nightmare, when you'd see images of vacant cities, empty buildings,...
Review: ‘Cut Throat City’RZA Crafts A Rewarding, Cumbersome Big Easy Gangster Epic
The Wizard of Oz plays an unexpectedly large role in RZA's New Orleans crime epic, Cut Throat City. The second film in days set...
Review: ‘Tesla’Ethan Hawke Fails To Generate Much Electricity In Michael Almereyda's Curious Biopic
Michael Almereyda is a filmmaker very interested in making interesting movies about uninteresting men. Judicious use of technical, spatial, and musical anachronism are the...
Review: ‘Charm City Kings’Baltimore Dirt Bike Drama Is Leader Of The Pack
NOTE: This review was originally posted for this year's Sundance Film Festival. Charm City Kings opens on HBO Max on August 21st.
If all you’ve...
Review: ‘Unhinged’Russell Crowe's Road Raging Maniac Guarantees Your First Time Back In Theaters Won't...
The psychotic road rage thriller Unhinged will be remembered for two things if anything at all. First is that it's the biggest major release...