Movie Reviews

I must confess to not being entirely familiar with the Sharknado franchise, but I can’t imagine that matters. As I understand it, the one-joke premise...

You can rely on the Russians to do certain things rather well, such as meddling in elections and crafting proudly old-fashioned fantasy epics. The Last...

It takes a fair helping of fishy guts to peddle knockoff wares in the shadow of a Disney classic, but that’s exactly what Blake Harris and Chris...

You’ve got to feel sorry for Joe Thomas. He seems to have been a man trapped in time since 2008 when he first starred as...

As a father of two girls, I know they’re prone to acting up. But there are probably better places to send them than the curious,...

During one moment in Selfie from Hell, Hannah ferociously tries to enter the dark web with pulsating music playing in the background. When she reaches...

The setup of The Ninth Passenger resembles that of a thousand better low-budget genre movies. A group of salacious, idiotic teens venture aboard a luxury...

Mile 22 is the fourth collaboration between rapper-turned-actor Mark Wahlberg and director Peter Berg in just five years. The other three were Lone Survivor, about...

A Prayer Before Dawn is the rare film that makes two hours seem like far too long and somehow not nearly long enough. It sentences...

This was a surprise: the highlight of this year’s Leicester Comic-Con was – for me – a very scary short British horror film called Teddy Bears...

Directed by Susan Johnson, we review the 2018 Netflix movie To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, which does not contain spoilers. Netflix Original film To...

The Motive, or El Autor, by Spanish director Manuel Martín Cuenca, has a lot of things going for it. It’s darkly funny, built around a killer...

Whenever a horror film opens with the words “Based on true events,” I always strongly suspect it’s going to be some bullshit. Those suspicions were...

Some films are meant to be enjoyed in the theatre, where you can join in the shared experience while munching on popcorn like a giant...

Going to keep this one short, people: I loved Ruin Me, and I have to be careful telling you why, as you’d hate me if...

Zion is a short documentary film about one remarkable young man, and most especially his attitude about himself. By “short”, I mean it’s less than...

This new Netflix film set in Argentina looked very interesting at first: an exciting mystery about a missing girl, being reopened many years later, with...

The Most Unknown is a fascinating documentary by Ian Cheney that unites nine scientists from a slew of fields in pursuit of intellectual common ground....