Movie Reviews

The Turning is yet another adaptation of the Henry James novella The Turn of the Screw (none of which I am intimately familiar with, including...

New on Netflix today after enjoying a fair amount of success elsewhere, Chung Mong-Hong’s A Sun (Netflix) is a complex and emotional story of family...

I feel old. And a part of feeling old, as I’ve unenthusiastically discovered recently, is irrationally despising newfangled modern trends. Among those trends are social...

Since dropping surreal short films on Netflix is in vogue now, it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to see What Did Jack Do? lurking in...

Nicolas Cage is the perfect pot luck actor: you can never tell whether the next film of his you watch is going to be outstanding...

Guy Pearce, seemingly in desperate need of a better way to occupy his time, stars in York Alec Shackleton’s small-town actioner Disturbing the Peace as a local...

Outside of Pixar and other award-winning animation canons, it becomes harder to find a truly great, live-action film rated PG in the 21st century. Most...

I suspect I enjoyed Andy Newbery’s Hitchcockian thriller The Host a bit more than many will, in part because I’m partial to moody Euro-trash and apparently also...

Through sheer coincidence, I found myself watching Tyler Perry’s A Fall From Grace less than 24 hours after watching Destin Daniel Cretton’s Just Mercy, which is a bit...

First impressions aren’t everything, but a gratingly nonsensical title like Live Twice, Love Once deserves some ire all the same. Unfortunately, the film itself, a laidback and...

Anyone with even a passing knowledge of video game adaptations on the big or small screen can’t have been holding out much hope for Ni No...

When I stepped up to review Eye for an Eye, I did so based on the briefest of descriptions and had no idea I was...

Maybe it goes without saying, but watch Kobiety Mafii before you watch Women of Mafia 2. This one follows not long after the first left...

If you like European drama but would prefer it to be more sleazy than artsy, Patryk Vega’s Kobiety Mafii may well satisfy your needs. As...

Let’s not waste anyone’s time here — Like a Boss isn’t a good movie. It’s pandering and derivative, it wastes a good cast on thin archetypes, and...

William Eubank’s confidently no-nonsense Underwater doesn’t give you time to find your sea legs, and perhaps that’s just as well — paying too much attention to the...

When the Golden Globes aired recently in early January, the majority of the categories felt up-in-the-air. Pundits struggled to predict the likes of Best Director,...

I now have a theory that the great play by play man, Jack Buck(I previously attributed it to Vin Scully), wasn’t talking about Kirk Gibson’s...