Movie review: The Insult imparts the complexities of conflict
A dialogue of national reconciliation takes the form of a courtroom drama in Ziad Doueiri’s The Insult, one of this year’s nominees for Best Foreign Language Film. It all begins […]
Movie review: Ready Player One turns brain games mindless
Before we get into just how much Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One misses the mark, it’s worth noting that its badness has nothing to do with video games and the […]
Movie review: Pacific Rim Uprising stomps through subplots
Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim—like pretty much all of his films, including The Shape of Water—was a tribute to the genres he loved that lack mainstream recognition, in this case […]
Movie review: The new Tomb Raider is full of glitches
You have to respect when a director clearly loves the material and subject of his movie, and when a performer is perfectly cast and goes the extra mile to give […]
Movie review: Red Sparrow flutters but never quite lands
In Red Sparrow, a fallen Russian ballerina (Jennifer Lawrence) is given an impossible choice—to sacrifice her free will and dignity for her country by becoming a “sparrow” trained in the […]
Movie Review: Game Night wins with humor and tension
Game Night is a funny, exciting thriller-comedy with fun performances and a story that keeps you guessing. Who in the world saw this coming? Certainly not whoever edited the trailer, […]
Movie review: Black Panther unites a fantastic vision
With the release of Black Panther, it’s tempting to reflect on how far the Marvel Cinematic Universe has come in 10 years, and how it has essentially reinvented the film […]
Movie review: Hostiles walks a new path in the Western genre
War has been a part of the human experience for all of recorded history. But what happens when the things that drive us to it are no longer a factor? […]
Movie review: A dazzling finale for Daniel Day-Lewis in Phantom Thread
The world of Paul Thomas Anderson is one in which the mundane, everyday lives of its characters are already riveting before something positively insane happens. Look at his most recent […]
Movie review: I, Tonya looks beyond mockery in the skating scandal
Forget everything you think you knew about Tonya Harding. While you’re at it, forget everything you’ve seen about I, Tonya, a deep dive into the infamous assault on Nancy Kerrigan […]