Review: “Silence”
Martin Scorsese once said that the two most important things in his life were "my art and my religion." Nowhere has that been more...
Review #2: “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”
Let's get this out of the way - 'Rogue One' is the best "Star Wars" film since "The Empire Strikes Back". Unshackled by the...
Review: “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story”
There is indeed life to be found in the "Star Wars" franchise beyond the saga of the Skywalker clan. Despite being a prequel scandalized...
Review: “Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them”
On the surface, it's easy to dismiss "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" as a cynical cash-grab squeezed from a lucrative franchise. It...
Review: “Arrival”
The timing of "Arrival" is rather fitting, seeing that it is a brainy, ambitious, and hopeful science fiction drama about breaking a seemingly unbreachable...
Review: “Doctor Strange”
Criticising a superhero film, particularly Marvel films, often comes with a thousand word disclaimer. One must qualify that you're not holding the film up...
Review: “Hacksaw Ridge”
Mel Gibson has returned to the director's chair after a ten-year absence, and his war film "Hacksaw Ridge" proves to be a worthy effort....
Review: “The Birth of a Nation”
Writer, director, and actor Nate Parker's ambitious telling of Nat Turner's 1831 slave revolt is timely movie; it's also a missed opportunity, a tepid...
Review: “The Girl on the Train”
At last, a movie that answers the burning question: "What would a large-budget, big screen Lifetime channel potboiler play like?" Sadly, that answer is...
Review: “Blair Witch”
The first highly successful found-footage horror flick, "The Blair Witch Project" (1999) never really lived up to its potential as a film or a...
Review: “Morgan”
It's tempting to describe "Morgan" as a poor man's "Ex Machina" or a more competent "Transcendence," but to do so would be reductive and...
Review: “Ben-Hur”
It's almost impressive that director Timur Bekmambetov ("Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter") had the gumption to remake a cinematic icon like "Ben-Hur". Unfortunately, that's the...
Review: “Kubo and the Two Strings”
LAIKA Studios continues its streak of smart, idiosyncratic, and quirky animated features with the stunning "Kubo and the Two Strings". The makers of "Coraline,"...
Review: “Sausage Party”
An eight-year passion project from the thoroughly baked minds of Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill, and Evan Goldberg, "Sausage Party" is a hilariously vulgar and...
Review: “Suicide Squad”
It was a flawless premise in theory: an adaptation of a comic book series in which a team of low-level super-villains are pressed into...
Review: “Jason Bourne”
It's ironic and inevitable that after four movies a franchise about a super-spy/super-soldier with amnesia would start to develop a feeling of deja vu....
Review: “Star Trek Beyond”
There was a lot of concern when Justin Lin was announced as the director of "Star Trek Beyond," and it was amplified when the...
Review: “Ghostbusters” (2016)
Paul Feig's relaunch of "Ghostbusters" was slimed by controversy from the get-go. Depending on whom you asked it was either Hollywood at its money-grabbing...
Review: “The Legend of Tarzan”
Less pompous than "Greystoke" (1984) but more cartoonish than Disney's 1999 animated version of the material, "The Legend of Tarzan" is pretty to look...
Review: “The Shallows”
A fun piece of throwaway cinema, "The Shallows" is a sleek, beautifully shot, and mostly satisfying thriller that plays it smart and simple, only...
Review: “Warcraft”
You can tell there is a lot of heart and effort that went into the making of "Warcraft," which makes its artistic failure as...
Review: “The Nice Guys”
"The Nice Guys" plays like a sequel-in-spirit to Black's brilliant and oft-overlooked directorial debut, "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang". This time around, Black takes to...
Review: “Captain America: Civil War”
Writers-directors Joe and Anthony Russo have impressively crafted a movie that functions as a sequel for both the "Avengers" and "Captain America" movies, as...
Review: “Midnight Special”
As mid-level budget filmmaking wanes and decent visual effects become quite affordable, we're seeing more and more genre filmmaking exploring big ideas and themes...
Review: “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice”
That 'Dawn of Justice' works as much as it does is a surprise. From the get-go the film has been saddled with immense pressure...
Review: “10 Cloverfield Lane”
Let's clarifying something up front: "10 Cloverfield Lane" isn't a sequel to J.J. Abrams' 2008 giant monster-takes-Manhattan flick "Cloverfield" - at least not a...
Review: “Knight of Cups”
Muddled, aimless, indecipherable, and shallow, Terence Malick's "Knight of Cups" is one of the most insufferable slogs in recent cinema, a soul-crushing waste of...
Review: “Triple 9”
There's a lot of appeal in the idea of "Triple 9": It's a gritty crime drama about a couple of good cops caught in...
Review: “Deadpool”
Deadpool may be the comic book movie spoof to end all comic book movie spoofs. It playfully and cleverly deflates the conventions and cliches...
Review: “Hail, Caesar!”
Joel and Ethan Coen make a welcome and long-awaited return to comedy with "Hail, Caesar!," a slap-happy valentine to the Technicolor heyday of Hollywood...