Movies Archives — Page 58 of 111

04/12/201904/15/2019inMovies, Reviewsby Eric D. Snider4 min read

REVIEW: Body-Swap Comedy Little

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

04/12/2019inMovies, Reviewsby Eric D. Snider3 min read

REVIEW: Stop-Motion Missing Link

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

04/10/201904/10/2019inMovies, Reviewsby Eric D. Snider3 min read

REVIEW: Anti-Abortion Propaganda Unplanned

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

04/10/201904/10/2019inMovies, Looking Backby Audrey Fox6 min read

The Sixth Sense and the Renaissance of the Twist Ending

Contains spoilers for The Sixth Sense (1999), Psycho (1960), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Others (2001), Identity (2003), Basic […]

04/09/201904/09/2019inMovies, On the Marqueeby Kyle Kizu6 min read

The Boom of the Spectacle Documentary

It’s been well-documented that the theatrical popularity of the documentary is back. Four films from 2018 — RBG, Won’t You Be […]

04/09/2019inMovies, Reviewsby Eric D. Snider4 min read

REVIEW: Feel-Good Racism Drama The Best of Enemies

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

04/07/201904/08/2019inMovies, Film Fests, Reviewsby Eric D. Snider2 min read

REVIEW: Race Drama Native Son

(On HBO.) Little had to be changed about the plot of Richard Wright’s 1940 novel Native Son to make it work with […]

04/05/201904/13/2019inMovies, Reviewsby Eric D. Snider2 min read

REVIEW: Terrorism Thriller Hotel Mumbai

The title character in Hotel Mumbai is actually called the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, or the Taj for short, and it was […]

04/05/201904/05/2019inMovies, Reviewsby Eric D. Snider4 min read

REVIEW: Stephen King’s Pet Sematary

The whole point of Pet Sematary — both Stephen King’s 1983 novel and the effective 1989 movie version — is that […]

04/04/201904/05/2019inMovies, Reviewsby Eric D. Snider3 min read

REVIEW: Kid Superhero Shazam!

Despite their adventures ostensibly being aimed at kids, most superheroes aren’t children themselves. Except for the Spider-Men and occasional moments with […]