Review: ‘The Color Purple’Fantasia Berrino And Danielle Brooks Ignite Blitz Bazawule’s Joyous Musical Remake
You don't mess with The Color Purple in my family. It's one of those films (alongside The Bodyguard) that would play constantly in my...
Review: ‘The Family Plan’Mark Wahlberg Stays In His Comfort Zone As Suburban Dad And...
Mark Wahlberg continues to occupy just the weirdest space for middle-aged action stars. He could probably be commanding his own blockbuster franchise, like Tom...
Review: ‘The End We Start From’Jodie Comer Mesmerizes As A Mother Fleeing A Climate...
The End We Start From is a post-apocalyptic survival thriller...but then it's also not. There are no large-scale, massive displays of cataclysmic damage. No...
Review: ‘American Fiction’Jeffrey Wright Leaves Them Bamboozled In Funny, Insightful Satire About Plight Of...
*NOTE: This review was originally part of our Middleburg Film Festival coverage.*
In 1985, Robert Townsend offered one of the most insightful, and funniest looks...
Video Review: ‘The Iron Claw’Zac Efron And Jeremy Allen White Hit Hard In Sean...
A Texas family wrestling dynasty shatters under the weight of professional aspirations and personal demons. The Iron Claw is based on the real-life story...
Review: ‘The Boy And The Heron’Hayao Miyazaki's Comeback Film Will Be A Soulful, Familiar...
Nine years ago legendary Studio Ghibli animator Hayao Miyazaki "retired" with his final film, a perfect magnum opus in The Wind Rises. It told a...
Review: ‘Origin’Ava DuVernay's Audacious, Heartbreaking Exploration Of Caste Makes A Powerful Statement
Has Ava DuVernay ever made a simple, easy to digest movie meant to entertain? I guess you could argue A Wrinkle in Time, but for...
Review: ‘Godzilla Minus One’The King Of All Kaiju Is Back And He's Never Been...
I there's a golden age of Godzilla, it's hard to argue that we're not in it right now. Let's face, the king of all...
Review: ‘Silent Night’John Woo's Dialogue-Free Holiday Thriller Is A Yuletide Diversion
After the disastrous 2003 Ben Affleck thriller Paycheck, John Woo took his paycheck and went home back to Hong Kong. For two decades, the master...
Review: ‘Saltburn’Emerald Fennell's Stylish, Kinky Aristocratic Thriller Ensares You In Its Web
If Cruel Intentions and Brideshead Revisited were burned to ashes then laced with acid and smoked, you’d get the sensation of Emerald Fennell’s Promising Young Woman follow-up, Saltburn. A constantly-shocking look...