Movies

It’s becoming a bit played-out to remind people that Disney’s recent spate of live-action remakes are cynical and soulless efforts to rifle through nostalgic pockets,...

This review of House Arrest (Netflix) contains minor spoilers. Another week, another Indian Netflix film to ponder over. Netflix’s pounce on the international scene continues,...

Sin Cielo won the grand jury prize at Seattle Film Festival, as well as numerous other prestigious awards for short films. Director Jianna Maarten received...

We review the Netflix animated Christmas film Klaus (2019), which does not contain any significant spoilers. Netflix loves the Christmas genre, and I’m confident that...

It’s easy to go into a film screening with preconceptions, especially having seen so many films already. I knew that Better Days AKA Shao nian...

When Jennifer Kent burst onto the scene in 2014 with her debut feature The Babadook, I was absolutely enamored. I was in high school at...

Directed by Noah Baumbach, we review the 2019 Netflix movie Marriage Story, which does not contain any significant spoilers. Marriage Story is a tragedy—there are...

Director Ed Zwick has always had a knack for drawing the viewer in with a killer opening scene or sequence. If you look down his...

Proving the venerable French are as prone to God-awful genre filmmaking as any other nation, Paradise Beach (Netflix) is a woeful action-thriller set in the seemingly lawless climes...

The name of Harriet Tubman exists in history books. We see her mentioned in museums, parks, historical sites, and paintings. The U.S. twenty-dollar bill even...

John Cena really has the potential to be the next Dwayne Johnson; he has a natural charisma that you just can’t teach. He is also funny....

Midway has your classic throwback characters that are like talking toy dolls that, when you pull the string back, they will spew out such classic...

He was my favorite film critic, and now I have my own The Brown Bunny. Years ago, the great Roger Ebert famously said, “I hate...

Let your mind ponder Luce, which might be the most provocative film of the year. There have been very few adapted stage plays recently (with the...

After Midnight (previously called Something Else) surely crosses more genres than I’ve seen in any one single film before; and surprisingly, it works. Where Jeremy...

Body and Brighton Rock is a close, tense nature survival thriller in which an inexperienced park ranger must stay with a body she discovers overnight until...

Tarun Mansukhani’s Drive has nothing at all to do with the same-titled Nicholas Winding Refn masterpiece from 2011, but a comparison to even a much worse movie...

If there were awards for literal titles, Marco Bonfanti’s The Man Without Gravity, new on Netflix today, would certainly win one. The Italian film boasts a...