Scene-Stealers Movie Reviews

Too Many Detours: Road trip comedy ‘Sacramento’ takes too many detours en route to destination

Road trip comedy ‘Sacramento’ takes too many detours en route to destination

Posted 1 month ago

A road-trip comedy, 'Sacramento' tries to answers questions about fatherhood and friendship but falls short in the end.

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Mind Crash: “A Minecraft Movie” Doesn’t Dig Deep

“A Minecraft Movie” Doesn’t Dig Deep

Posted 1 month ago

Fans will love it. Non fans will be confused. And gamers will wanna game.

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All Whammies: ‘The Luckiest Man in America’ Makes Its Play, Lands on a Whammy

‘The Luckiest Man in America’ Makes Its Play, Lands on a Whammy

Posted 1 month ago

'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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(Good) Dog Days: ‘The Friend’ Is Very Good Company

‘The Friend’ Is Very Good Company

Posted 1 month ago

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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Uni-corny: ‘Death of a Unicorn’ Swings for the Fences, Hits a Single

‘Death of a Unicorn’ Swings for the Fences, Hits a Single

Posted 2 months ago

'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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‘The Public’ Strands a Fine Cast in Stacks of Clichés

by Kate Valliere April 5, 2019 Print Reviews

Emilio Estevez’s new movie ‘The Public’ offers great cast, but manufactured feels due to a lackluster script.

‘Screwball’ misses just a bit outside

by KB Burke April 5, 2019 Print Reviews

A light-hearted sports documentary that recalls Major League Baseball’s investigation into the scandal of Biogenesis clinic’s illegal substance abuse in 2013.

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Shazam! is a Movie

by Sophie Williams April 5, 2019 Print Reviews

Read the review if you wanna know what’s in it. Shazam!

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Terror on the Plains in ‘The Wind’

by Christian Ramos April 4, 2019 Print Reviews

In ‘The Wind’, one woman’s fear of isolation and the dark on the undeveloped plains leads to sinister happenings around her cabin.

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‘Division 19’ an Inconsistent Dystopian Mess

by Warren Cantrell April 4, 2019 Print Reviews

‘Division 19’ is The Hunger Games meets The Truman Show, with just a hint of V for Vendetta, yet bad. Really, really bad.

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‘The Haunting of Sharon Tate’ is exploitative garbage

by Kate Valliere April 4, 2019 Print Reviews

Hilary Duff and Daniel Farrands disrespect the dead in ‘The Haunting of Sharon Tate.’

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‘A Vigilante’ gives power to survivors, not abusers

by Kate Valliere March 31, 2019 Print Reviews

Olivia Wilde frees the abused in a strong debut by Sarah Dagger-Nickson.

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Criterion Blu-ray Gives Poverty Row Noir ‘Detour’ the Treatment it Deserves

by Eric Melin March 30, 2019 Blu-ray/DVD Reviews

There’s long been a case for the idea that great art can be found in the margins, and ‘Detour’ is a perfect example of this.

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‘The Hummingbird Project’ Flaps its Wings

by Eric Melin March 29, 2019 Print Reviews

‘The Hummingbird Project’ is an interesting enough, if predictable, rumination on the current state of the American dream.

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‘The Wedding Guest’ you won’t want to invite

by Joe Jarosz March 29, 2019 Print Reviews

Michael Winterbottom’s latest thriller follows Dev Patel on a journey across Pakistan and India on what should’ve been someone’s wedding day.

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Visiting ‘Hotel Mumbai’ will leave you breathless

by Joe Jarosz March 29, 2019 Blogs

The true story of the 2008 Taj Hotel terrorist attack in Mumbai where hotel staff risk to protect their guests.

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Peele continues to terrorize ‘Us’

by Tim English March 22, 2019 Print Reviews

Jordan Peele’s sophomore flick, Us, is a chilling throwback to Hitchcockian psychological thrillers with a terrifying performance from Lupita Nyong’o.

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‘Gloria Bell’ Is a Strong Indie About a Strong Woman

by Christian Ramos March 21, 2019 Print Reviews

Julianne Moore is Gloria Bell, a woman looking for love on the dance floor and dancing to her own beat.

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‘Dragged Across Concrete’ Is About As Fun As the Title Suggests

by Warren Cantrell March 21, 2019 Print Reviews

‘Dragged Across Concrete,’ like Mel Gibson’s casting in it, works better in theory than in practice if a person thinks about it for more than a minute.

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