Movies
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
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
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+
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
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The Postcard Killings review – an outdated horror-thriller
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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...