[Rating: Solid Rock Fist Up] In Theaters Now, on Blu-Ray and VOD July 7 There are precious few surprises in cinema these days, and those encountered are almost always unpleasant ones piggybacking on the shoulders of wasted potential. Every once in a while, something special open-palm smacks the shit out of a viewer with sharp […]
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[Rating: Swiss Fist] In Theaters Friday, May 1 Most legacy sequels fail because they don’t have a reason to exist outside of nostalgia baiting, but that’s not the case with The Devil Wears Prada 2. Indeed, this long-awaited follow up to the 2006 classic finds itself landing in a narratively interesting moment for its characters […]
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[Rating: Minor Rock Fist Down] In Theaters Friday, April 10 A dizzying reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s seminal work, director Aneil Karia’s version of Hamlet is bold, to be sure: though any further plaudits are difficult to conjure. A sort of Reader’s Digest version of the Danish prince’s tragedy, this telling carves out a new path for […]
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[Rating: Solid Rock Fist Up] In Theaters Friday, March 20 The comforting embrace of optimism and fulfilled promise comes at a premium these days, making Project Hail Mary that rare case of a movie living up to not just its potential, but its moment. A veritable dream team of talent in all major phases of […]
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Man…what a twisty, bendy road Hollywood walks leading up to its biggest night. Favorites that seemed like a lock just one month ago look shaky in the light of early spring, and unlike previous years, there doesn’t seem to be as big a stable of heavy favorites as what many come to expect at this […]
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[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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