Category: Reviews

Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man feels like three kinds of genre films melded together. One is a thriller about escaping an […]

Blood on Her Name opens with a scene of intense immediacy. A young woman stands above a man’s corpse lying in […]

For over two hundred years, the world has been enchanted with Emma, Jane Austen’s tale of a “handsome, clever, (and) rich” […]

The Call of the Wild will be the first encounter for some viewers (including this one) with the Disney-owned 20th Century […]

There’s some sort of irony in Willem Dafoe providing the voice of a cartoon seagull just a few months after he […]

From their screenplay for Alexander Payne’s The Descendants to their joint directorial debut, 2013’s The Way Way Back, Nat Faxon and […]

It’s significant that Portrait of a Lady on Fire is written and directed by a woman–Celine Sciamma–as well as photographed by […]

For a group of professional ghost hunters, the main characters in Camp Cold Brook are surprisingly unhappy to discover that the […]

It would be easy for Come as You Are to turn into a cloying, condescending lecture about how the disabled are […]

DC Comics’ Gotham City has not traditionally been a kind place for women. Bruce Wayne’s mother Martha was assassinated in the […]

Knowing a little about Come to Daddy’s creative pedigree is probably the biggest indicator of your potential reaction to this wild […]