Review: ‘Soul’Pixar Delivers A Breezy Existential Crowdpleaser That Plays It Safe
When we learned Pete Docter was doing Soul, a film that would explore concepts of the afterlife, I think flashes of his modern classic...
Review: ‘Wonder Woman 1984’A Feel-Good Sequel That Comes Close To Being So Much More
It's the 1980s. The era of Gordon Gekko, Reaganomics, Alex P. Keaton, and the "greed is good" mentality. Ther perfect time to introduce a...
Review: ‘Fatale’Hilary Swank Twists Michael Ealy Into Knots In Deon Taylor's Latest Racially-Charged Thriller
The erotic, jilted lover genre is well-worn, with most modern permutations rooted in the classic Fatal Attractions. That's quite clearly evident in the title...
‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Finale Review: “The Rescue”
When Star Wars is at its best, I'm not sure there's anything that measures up. At least for me, nothing puts me on a...
Review: ‘Greenland’Gerard Butler's Latest Disaster Thriller Benefits From Small-Scale Focus
While Greenland may look like the typical "Gerard Butler saves the world from disaster" movie, it's definitely a cut above. Directed by Ric Roman...
Review: ‘Promising Young Woman’Carey Mulligan Demands To Be Heard In Raging #MeToo Revenge Tale
NOTE: This is a reprint of my review from the Sundance Film Festival.*
If Emerald Fennell’s raging #MeToo era revenge film Promising Young Woman was just Carey...
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...
Review: ‘The Midnight Sky’George Clooney's Melancholic, Muddled Sci-Fi Drama Fails To Launch
I know they never really went away, but does it feel like every movie nowadays deals with a global catastrophe that wipes out humanity?...
‘The Mandalorian’ Season 2 Episode 7 Review: “The Believer”
Somehow this episode wasn't titled "The Unmasked", but it probably should've been. Following two straight weeks of fan-servicey reveals, and one kidnapped Grogu, this...
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....