Movie Reviews

Seen one film about demon possession and you think you’ve seen them all? Not so fast. The Possession of Michael King is as far removed...

Boss Level is the most fun I’ve had with a movie in ages. Joe Carnahan has taken the played-out Groundhog Day time-loop gimmick and imbued...

Near the start of the film, it describes “Operation Sentinelle” — a group of soldiers serving as an anti-terrorist guard in various locations in France;...

I’m reluctant to say much about the story of Hors du monde (also known as Out of the World or Out of this World): the...

I’m not sure if you can call Chaos Walking new exactly. The original adaptation is from a book called The Knife of Never Letting Go,...

I’ll just say it: Raya and the Last Dragon is the best Disney animated film to come out in years. It is just gorgeous to...

When watching a film or reading a story that features a cult, the audience usually has to contend with at least one unreliable narrator. The...

Lucky is titled as such because of the myriad ways the word is used towards women who have been in what many would call unlucky...

Just a couple of days ago, I wrote that it’s often impossible to know who or what to believe in films that feature cults. The...

The new HBO Max film of the week is Tom and Jerry and it’s painfully bad. Woefully bad. I know there is something to say...

This review of the Netflix Spanish film Crazy About Her contains no spoilers. The romance was released on the streaming service on February 26, 2021. ...

The 2016 Hollywood adaptation of The Girl on the Train, adapted from a convoluted potboiler by Paula Hawkins, was not a very good film. But...

To its credit, Bigfoot Family accomplishes something many films in its genre don’t by appealing to both the kids and the long-suffering adults who have...

With Netflix releasing a flurry of romantic films, including the third in the trilogy for To All the Boys, recent releases have a job to inspire...

You have to wonder if Marvel tried to convince Tom Holland to pass on Cherry. Even if the Russo brothers (behind Avengers; Mosul; The Gray...

This review of Pelé on Netflix contains spoilers. Most of what you hear about Pelé is that he’s the best footballer who ever lived, at...

Just as some film lovers have learned not to trust what critics write, I need to take the marketing write-ups I receive with a pinch...

French-Canadian filmmaker Daniel Grou’s (also frequently credited as “Podz”) filmography is known for violent fare that some have claimed borders on torture porn. The reason...