Category: Reviews

Remember the Robert Redford movie All Is Lost, where he was stranded at sea? Adrift, with teen-romance veterans Shailene Woodley (The […]

If the absence of Johnny Knoxville’s Jackass has left a concussion-shaped hole in your life, it may be partially filled by Action […]

Upgrade is an offbeat futuristic techno-thriller in the tradition of B-movies about scientists tampering in God’s domain, made with enthusiasm (by Saw and […]

“This is not based on a true story,” say the onscreen titles at the beginning of American Animals. “This is a […]

While I’ve always liked the original Star Wars trilogy, I don’t have the depth of knowledge (i.e., memorization) that some do, so […]

Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg started to become a pop-culture icon a few years ago, when the court shifted rightward […]

The imaginatively titled Book Club, about four women in their late 60s whose love lives are rekindled by reading the Fifty […]

What distinguishes Deadpool from most other superheroes is that he swears, kills people, and breaks the fourth wall. That is also, […]

This week’s “good enough, I guess, if you’re not too picky” home-invasion thriller is Breaking In,”which offers the innovative twist of […]

You’ll think you’ve seen Life of the Party before, or at least something very much like it: A dowdy, newly divorced mom […]

The rape-revenge sub-genre has many entries, and everything about Revenge (including the title) sounds derivative until you get to the credits. How […]

There are two premises in Bad Samaritan, one that drives the plot and one that explains the villain’s motives. They are […]