Review: Guillermo del Toro’s “Pinocchio”
Guillermo del Toro's inventive take on "Pinocchio" is a cinematic artifact of unparalleled craftsmanship. Every frame possesses life just as it re-orients the overly...
Review: “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”
"Glass Onion" is an entertaining and twisty whodunnit that shows writer/director Rian Johnson flexing not only an unparalleled understanding of the genre but a...
Review: “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever”
"Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" is like interrupting that unmistakably joyous and sorrowful feeling at a wake with a live infomercial. When the genuinely exciting...
Review: “Avatar” (Reprinted)
With the re-release of "Avatar" in cinemas this weekend, I'm reprinting my original review of the film from back in 2009. Much like...
Review: “Deep Water”
After two decades, Adrian Lyne returns with his latest erotic thriller "Deep Water" starring Ben Affleck and Ana De Armas in what is a...
Review: “The Adam Project
"The Adam Project" is mainly entertaining, often moving and most importantly, brief. This is a formative movie throwback from director Shawn Levy, star Ryan...
Blake’s Review: “The Batman”
"The Batman" is a needless collage of not only better movies, but more egregiously of better Batman movies as director/co-writer Matt Reeves and co-writer...
Review: “Blacklight”
To say that "Blacklight" is one of the shonkiest and dopiest movies that I've ever endured would imply that this utterly bizarre excuse for...
Review: “Jackass Forever”
"Jackass Forever" is an unrelenting and essential cinematic experience that transports an audience through a time machine to the primal ferociousness of citizens seated...
Review: “Scream”
Ghostface is back in "Scream" ("Scream 5" from here on out), and this time it's not just the fresh-faced crop of Woodsboro teens under...
Review: “Licorice Pizza”
Paul Thomas Anderson's "Licorice Pizza" embraces the romance of being disconnected, of finding out who you are by pretending who you think you should...
Review: “West Side Story”
Rapturously entertaining, moving, exhibiting an intoxicating flow, and a sense of staging that defies the near-impossible task of recreating the immediacy of this hallowed...
Review: “King Richard”
"King Richard" is a strange and conflicting beast. It's a film that finds a language to render powerful compositions of courts as colosseums...
Review: “Drive My Car”
To do justice to talking about this undeniable masterpiece, there are some minor spoilers of events depicted in the early stages of the film...
Review: “The Harder They Fall”
Regina King, Delroy Lindo, Idris Elba and Jonathan Majors are dripping with swag and swagger in the same western? Sign me up for "The...
Review: “Finch”
"Finch" is a tale of survival in a hostile post-apocalyptic vision of Earth, lashed by the searing by a solar flare that has irrevocably...
Review: “Eternals”
Academy Award Winner Chloe Zhao's "Eternals" is not good, but unlike the slew of increasingly tiring and formulaic Marvel fare there are some bright...
Review: “Red Notice”
In the opening credits of "Red Notice," we see a 3D printed fabrication of an artefact foreshadowing that the latest collaboration between filmmaker Rawson...
Review: “Army of Thieves”
"Army of Thieves" is a heist movie fantasy that both asks and answers the question of what if a one-note character from the zombie...
Review: “Space Jam: A New Legacy”
"Space Jam: A New Legacy" is a deplorable act of IP coercion and grave robbery that is as boring as it is vindictive.
The...
Review: “No Sudden Move”
Director Steven Soderbergh and writer Ed Solomon's "No Sudden Move" is heist-movie chess, a game in which the pieces on the board are compelled...
Review: “Pig”
Quiet yet stirring, seething and yet steady - "Pig" is the unlikely fusion of incongruous ingredients. It's equal parts the nihilism of "First Reformed,"...
Review: “Army of the Dead”
Zack Snyder's "Army of Dead" begins with almost unparalleled ferocity and style. A military convoy is driving through the Nevada desert. Breathtakingly picturesque against...
Review: “The Mitchells Vs. The Machines”
"The Mitchells Vs. The Machines" is a glorious and heartfelt story of the unlikely family pitted against a phone update turned Skynet-style AI. ...
Review: “Wrath of Man”
Guy Ritchie's "Wrath of Man" is the movie "Den of Thieves" wishes it was.
An armoured car is incapacitated, invaded, and the drivers and...
Review: “Without Remorse”
"Tom Clancy's Without Remorse" is a brutal, espionage actioner that side-steps the world-policing impulses of the source material with the help of phenomenal casting...
Review: “Judas and the Black Messiah”
Director and co-writer Shaka King's "Judas and the Black Messiah" is an explosive, rightly revisionist account of Bill O'Neal's (LaKeith Stanfield) FBI backed infiltration...
Review: “Boss Level”
"Boss Level" bears no resemblance to that absolute mother of a final stage that inspired its name. It's "The Grey" and "Narc" director Joe...
Review: “Raya and the Last Dragon”
Disney Animation's latest feature, "Raya and the Last Dragon," is so affecting and candid about failure, selfishness, and the faith required for second chances...
Review: “One Night In Miami”
"One Night in Miami" is a poetic, hypothetical reimagining of an evening with four of the most influential Black men in America at a...