Category: Reviews

I’m far from the first one to point this out, but Bohemian Rhapsody — a biopic of Freddie Mercury (and, to a […]

My understanding of battle rap — informed entirely by Joseph Kahn’s Bodied, a devastatingly funny social commentary — is that it’s […]

Though written and directed by Tyler Perry, Nobody’s Fool starts out bearing little resemblance to a Tyler Perry film. For one thing, […]

For maximum nostalgia, Mid90s is presented not in widescreen but in 4:3, the way it would have looked on TV or videotape […]

Johnny English, Rowan Atkinson’s bumbling James Bond character who is a more talkative version of his Mr. Bean character, returns for […]

The premise behind Ike Barinholtz’s dark comedy The Oath is ripe with possibilities: A liberal man and his wife host his conservative […]

The rather arbitrarily titled Hunter Killer is a submarine movie for dads, based on a novel called Firing Point (another random title) that […]

It takes its time getting there, but you know The Hate U Give is going to turn serious on us because it […]

See, they’re a couple of brothers whose last name is Sisters. “The Sisters brothers.” Get it? As a novel, much of […]

In the parlance of rock-climbers, to “free solo” means to climb alone and without a rope — basically, to remove all […]

An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn is Jim Hosking’s followup to his infamously irritating/amusing The Greasy Strangler, which I enjoyed as a […]

The Guilty is a tight, efficient, 85 minutes set in a single location: the 911 call center in Copenhagen. (Except it’s not […]