Category: Reviews

The opening scene of Gille Klabin’s The Wave promises an edgy head-trip of a movie, as main character Frank (Justin Long) […]

No matter how hard they work, Nicolas Cage, Bruce Willis, and John Travolta can only star in so many direct-to-VOD thrillers […]

If cinema is, as Roger Ebert famously put it, a machine that generates empathy, the camera is its motor. What a […]

It sounds like the set-up for a bad joke: Three Jesus Christs walk into a mental hospital, each claiming to be […]

Tom Hooper’s Cats announced what kind of movie it was going to be when the first trailer dropped this summer. The […]

A title card at the beginning of writer-director Wes Miller’s Western Hell on the Border laments the erasure of the black […]

The street drug du jour in VFW’s near-if-not-adjacent future is Hype. The hows, the whys, and the highs don’t much matter […]

The story of Bombshell was always going to be difficult to master tonally. It’s a movie about the female employees of […]

Back in 2001, fading action star Steven Seagal starred with rapper DMX in Exit Wounds, one of the last Seagal movies […]

If Sequestrada were a documentary, it might be a success. Onscreen titles explain the plight of Brazil’s indigenous tribes, who have […]

Peter Strickland has always been a filmmaker on his own wavelength, making uniquely crafted movies like Berberian Sound Studio and The […]