Category: Reviews

The main purpose of the animated UglyDolls film is to make viewers aware that there is a line of plush toys called […]

There are two things I know about Emily Dickinson: She was a reclusive spinster, and many of her poems can be […]

Family, a sunny and likable small-scale comedy from first-time filmmaker Laura Steinel, belongs to the subcategory of movies in which bad […]

(Note: I’m going out of my way not to “spoil” anything here, including things that happen within the first 20-30 minutes […]

Etymology time! “Hagazussa” (“hedge sitter”), an Old High German word that gave us witchy terms like “hag” and “hex,” refers to […]

Like most movies, The Curse of La Llorona is part of the extended Conjuring universe. The connection is negligible — the […]

The R-rated Hellboy is a comedically gory but otherwise not particularly funny reboot of the comic book character (previously brought to […]

Here’s an amusing coincidence. Little, which is a reversal of the Tom Hanks classic Big, was written by Tina Gordon Chism, […]

Missing Link is Laika’s fifth gorgeously detailed work of stop-motion animation and the fourth to leave me kind of cold. Only […]

The interesting thing about anti-abortion propaganda film Unplanned is how little it tries to persuade anyone of anything. Preaching to the choir, […]

Hollywood continues to solve racism one bigot at a time with The Best of Enemies, a shiny, shallow trinket based on […]