[Rating: Solid Rock Fist Up] In Theaters Friday, February 27 An erotic thriller that sits on a load-bearing pillar at the center of America’s in-progress collapse, Dreams tells a small story on the largest possible canvas. A film about the ways toxic relationships skew power dynamics and corrupt good intentions, it plays with familiar tropes […]
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[Rating: Swiss Fist] In Theaters and On Digital January 30 Compressing 14 years of litigious, bureaucratic, deeply personal history into a 131-minute movie was never going to be easy, and the people behind Pike River should be commended for their attempt at just that. A dramatic exploration of the 2010 coal mining accident and its […]
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[Rating: Minor Rock Fist Up] In Theaters Friday, January 2 An exploration of grief, loss, and regret wrapped inside of a zombie movie, We Bury the Dead isn’t a bait and switch so much as a catch and question. This is a flick about the undead and a mini-apocalypse, sure, but the “creatures” in this […]
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Honest, raw, and every inch as profound as the fiction it portrays, “Hamnet” is less of a movie and more a meditation on the emotional bonds that bind us.
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‘Wake Up Dead Man’ is a blast, subverting genre expectations with one hand while examining the sociopolitical landscape of its setting with the other.
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[Rating: Minor Rock Fist Up] In Theaters Friday, November 21 About a half hour too long with a stable of songs that are only about half as good as the previous installment, Wicked: For Good lives up to its name in more ways than one. Decent but not spectacular, the Broadway sequel dazzles with spectacle […]
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A reimagining of a book into film can be forgiven for the cuts it makes, but it is the additions that hobble “Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein.”
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A low-budget ‘Cloverfield’ meets ‘A Quiet Place’ mash-up with a visual gimmick that does more harm than good, ‘Scurry’ aims high and misses, but not by much.
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Superman’s story of a literal illegal alien fighting for a home and the people that sometimes hesitate to fight for him—has never landed at a better time/place.
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Misshapen, inert, and incomplete, ’28 Years Later’ feels like the bad first episode of a bigger story that’s only just getting started here.
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An action-forward shoot-em-up with just enough bullets, blades, and grenades to keep things interesting for 2 hours, this spin-off is good, not great.
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A 97-minute love-letter to obstinance, tunnel vision, and indignant narcissism, ‘Friendship’ is the movie 2025 deserves, and is hilarious to boot.
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‘The Luckiest Man in America’ feels like a missed opportunity, and a tease of a better movie hiding somewhere in the margins of this one.
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An odd couple dramedy with a strong thematic backbone rooted in explorations of grief and acceptance, ‘The Friend’ creeps up on you.
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‘Death of a Unicorn’ is fun, interesting, and good (enough), though shoddy CGI work and a somewhat flat performance from Paul Rudd keep it from realizing its full potential.
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