Movie Reviews

A part of me misses the days when you could see Jean-Claude Van Damme on a VHS cover and know exactly what kind of film...

Netflix’s Budapest tells the story of two lifelong friends who are fed up with the same old rat race. Acting as the office underdogs and...

Smaller and Smaller Circles is a crime drama from the Philippines; reputedly the first. It is based on the 2002 novel of the same name...

I think the most telling aspect of Your Son is its scope to measure grief. Director Miguel Ángel Vivas levels the story purely from a father’s perspective, and the...

Netflix, savvy as ever, is no stranger to the teen drama. Admittedly such things are usually laced with comedy or comic-book-y weirdness, as in Riverdale,...

You can check out our exclusive interview with the director of Destination: Dewsbury, Jack Spring, by clicking these words. Since moving into my thirties I...

On the surface, Wes Miller’s movie Atone is about a pastor receiving backlash from taking everything from the community and not giving back. The film is also...

Dismissed is a very interesting film: it would be a perfectly satisfactory thriller to casually pass the time with, but if you give it a...

Capernaum refers to a fishing village of about 1,500 residents, near the northern shores of the Sea of Galilee, during the time of Hasmoneans, where...

“Time doesn’t matter when you’re in love,” Juliette tells her rival, of sorts, a mousy blonde named Zuzanna, who is a good decade younger than...

In Roger Ebert’s Little Rule Book, (which every aspiring film critic should read, by the way), he states that all good critics should be prepared...

Paris Is Us has evolved from its early crowd-funded origins into an elegant feature depicting and exploring the obscurities that rear themselves in times of...

Unimaginative title notwithstanding, Min-ho Woo’s The Drug King is nonetheless certain to find an audience on Netflix given how it falls right at the intersection of...

We live in the age of the selfie, a time where all of us carry cameras with us at all times and every conceivable moment...

The cultural importance of Netflix can’t be understated, and it isn’t for the reasons you’d think. Sure, it’s notable that Roma, an unashamedly self-indulgent Spanish-language...

I have to admit: it has been an unusual length of time since a film left me in silence. I do not mean a few...

Since Taraji P. Henson played the meek Shug who can push out monster vocals in the terrific Hustle & Flow (highway robbery for an Oscar...

The clues that you might be the lead in a romantic comedy tend to be endless. If a best friend mentions that you are a...