Wildcat
Wildcat, director and co-writer Ethan Hawke’s new biopic about the life and work of author Flannery O’Connor, lacks the unique qualities of its subject’s prose, while draining her life of [...]
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes
“Apes together strong” At the end of 2017’s War for the Planet of the Apes, Caesar (Andy Serkis) had successfully gotten most of the apes under his care to a [...]
Tarot
Defacto critic Bart reads the cards to break down the banality of the new supernatural horror film, Tarot.
The Idea of You
What a time to be in a resurgence for genuinely sexy romance films. No, not deliberately edgy fair such as the Fifty Shades films or even worse, the Netflix 365 [...]
Unfrosted
Jerry Seinfeld needs to stop making movies. If not as an actor, at least as a director and writer, because Unfrosted is easily the worst film this reviewer has seen in the last few years.
The Fall Guy
Advocates of the studio's long-standing appetite for films based on beloved television shows will have a strong case for The Fall Guy. An action-packed comedy that also holds romance is [...]
Jeanne du Barry
Jeanne du Barry, the new film from Maiwenn, who both directed and stars in the title role, is a bit of a stunner, just in terms of the visuals. It [...]
Evil Does Not Exist
Renowned Japanese filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi delivers his most enigmatic film yet with Evil Does Not Exist, a masterful study of corporate greed presented in a rural Japanese village. Immaculately shot [...]
We Grown Now
We Grown Now is the latest independent feature by Minhai Baig, whose previous film Hala was also about youths sorting out their uncertain lives in Chicago. I enjoyed that film, [...]
Infested
The new spider-attack creature feature Infested (Fr. Vermines) is a step away from the nastiest and most depraved of the New French Extremity of the early-to-mid 2000s. However, it effectively [...]