For someone as obsessively Type A as me, the lead-up to a film festival as compact and curated as Fantasia can prove quite nerve-wracking. As an...

Purge of Kingdoms announces itself as "a pointless parody" of Game of Thrones, which reminds me of a truism: Admitting you're terrible doesn't make...

The idea behind this remake of The Lion King was to tell the same story but with real animals. That being impractical, however, they had to use...

After suffering through last year’s wildly self-indulgent, overly serious Disobedience, I was ready to write off any and all “artistic but...

Stuber is a familiar product -- a violent action comedy about a civilian who gets dragged into police work -- with a twist that's more depressing...

I’ll say one thing for Crawl, the new gator caper clawing its way into theaters this weekend: It’s rather snappily paced. Clocking in at an easy,...

Back in 1982, an independent filmmaker named Jenny Bowen made a movie called Street Music, which centered around the working-class long-term...

If books could always be accurately judged by their covers, the bespectacled, unassuming Ari Aster would be an accountant or an I.T. guy, not the...

As a big fat blockbuster superhero movie opening July Fourth weekend, Spider-Man: Far from Home doesn’t quite work. But perhaps that’s because...

Friends, critics, countrymen, I come to offer faint praise for Ophelia, not to bury her. See? Lifting from several of Shakespeare’s greatest works...

You know him — there’s one of him in every circle of loose acquaintances: the guy (or gal or nonbinary pal — gender is irrelevant here) who has...

Annabelle Comes Home is part of the Conjuring franchise, but you don't need to have seen any of those movies (which also include The Nun and The...

Toy Story 3 was such a perfect culmination to the series that any Toy Story 4 is going to be met with wariness. The Toy Story 4 we got does nothing...

Noted French pervert Luc Besson (The Fifth Element, Lucy) is back with another story of a badass woman who happens to be everything a horny...

There’s something different about Chucky in the new Child’s Play remake. Originally birthed as a very creepy-looking killer doll possessed by the...