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Here is our archive of movie coverage, which includes reviews, explainers, features, lists, and more from the latest films.

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The Main Event review – WWE’s wish-fulfillment fantasy doesn’t challenge for the title

April 10 2020, by Jonathon Wilson

The Main Event (Netflix) debuted on April 10, 2019. Coming right on the sweaty heels of The Big Show Show, Jay Karas’ wish-fulfillment fantasy The...

Money Heist: The Phenomenon review – how a Spanish crime-drama became a global mega-hit

April 3 2020, by Jonathon Wilson

Today, the fourth season of the indescribably popular Spanish crime-drama Money Heist debuts on Netflix, and it’s accompanied by an hour-long documentary feature, Money Heist: The Phenomenon, which...

Dolphin Reef review – an impressive undersea adventure on Disney+

April 3 2020, by Jonathon Wilson

Dolphin Reef is one of two Disneynature documentaries to drop on Disney+ today, the other being Elephant, an ever so slightly lesser production that felt...

Coffee & Kareem review – your basic remake of Cop and a Half without the laughs

April 3 2020, by M.N. Miller

Here is how you know a movie will feel longer than its running time, even at a quick 88-minutes. Netflix’s next dive into good mainstream film...

Boys Night review – a powerful Scottish short film

April 3 2020, by Louie Fecou

The most dysfunctional family in the world has nothing on the cast of Boys Night. With a drunken father and a manic mother, son Reece...

Into the Dark: Pooka Lives! review – do we care about this horror gimmick for a second time?

April 1 2020, by Daniel Hart

This review of Hulu’s Into the Dark: Pooka Lives! (Episode 7 of Season 2) contains minor spoilers — the film will be available on Hulu...

Hooking Up review – this rom-com loses its way

March 31 2020, by M.N. Miller

Hooking Up, in some ways, started with such an exciting premise. I thought for sure the writer/director Nico Raineau would break the rules when it comes to...

Blow the Man Down review – a strange slice of northern New England life

March 30 2020, by M.N. Miller

As a product of the northeast, born and raised, anyone who calls New York City, Los Angeles, or Chicago home may view Blow the Man...

I Still Believe review – like a trebled country song

March 29 2020, by M.N. Miller

The Erwin brothers’ latest film, I Still Believe, is based on the true story of country music singer and Grammy-nominated gospel artist Jeremy Camp. Shortly after...

Trauma Center review – trash cinema at its worst or finest, it doesn’t really matter

March 29 2020, by M.N. Miller

I’m not sure what has happened to Bruce Willis’s film career, but if it weren’t on life support before, it would have to be now....

The Postcard Killings review – an outdated horror-thriller

March 29 2020, by M.N. Miller

When you think you couldn’t find another blustery, snow-filled, Scandinavian serial killer mystery picture than 2017’s The Snowman, here comes The Postcard Killings –– a...

Swallow review – a film with an uncommon raw power

March 29 2020, by M.N. Miller

I recently wrote a review of Netflix’s Lost Girls where I referenced a line used by Aaron Sorkin in The West Wing: “The things we...

The Decline review – a nasty, but unmemorable survivalist thriller

March 27 2020, by Jonathon Wilson

Patrice Laliberté’s French-Canadian survivalist thriller The Decline, new on Netflix today, is about isolated people viciously turning on each other, which means it’s just about...

The Occupant review – a dark psychological thriller from Spain

March 25 2020, by Jonathon Wilson

David and Àlex Pastor’s throwback noir The Occupant, now available on Netflix, is a good example of a classic genre – the stalker-thriller, in this...

Curtiz review – a stylized love letter to Casablanca and classic cinema

March 25 2020, by Jonathon Wilson

Now available to stream on Netflix during your days of lonely isolation, Tamas Yvan Topolanszky’s debut feature Curtiz is a stylish biopic about fellow Jewish-Hungarian Michael Curtiz...

The Banker review – a formulaic film that offers a mild return on your investment

March 23 2020, by M.N. Miller

Apple’s first big dive into popular feature films is a fairly formulaic biopic of two men who attempted to subvert an archaic law that prevented...

The Burnt Orange Heresy review – a dull, uneven adaption of a Willeford novel

March 22 2020, by M.N. Miller

Who doesn’t love a good heist film? I sure do, and I may argue that it’s hard not to make one that is at least...

Big Time Adolescence review – huh, okay.

March 22 2020, by M.N. Miller

There have been so many coming of age comedies since Dazed and Confused that they all have been repeated, copied, and blatantly ripped-off so much...