Film Reviews & Insights
My Best Friend’s Exorcism
Exorcism stories are nothing new in horror. Neither are 1980s period pieces. But sometimes even well-trod ground can be combined to create something special. Such was the case in 2016 [...]
The Greatest Beer Run Ever
Attempting back to his historical period-piece roots after his Best Picture win for Green Book, filmmaker Peter Farrelly attempts to throw a well-intentioned beer party with The Greatest Beer Run [...]
Smile
Gore. The gross-out. Jump scares. There are many tricks and strategies that can go into the making of a horror movie. All of these can be successful if done well, [...]
The Good House
As a film that aims to make an essential and involving film about a woman's career and struggles with alcoholism, The Good House is dramatically inert and maudlin, a film [...]
Bros
Undeniably sweet and amusing, though overly formulaic. The latest Apatow Company film, titled Bros, is a gay rom-com that offers a retake on all the rom-com tropes and the interplay [...]
Sidney
Chronicling the outstanding career and life of the late American actor, filmmaker, activist, and family man Sidney Poiter, who was the very first black actor to win the Best Actor [...]
Blonde
Adding another film to his deconstructionist portrait of American celebrity and lore, Andrew Dominik's fourth feature film, Blonde, explores the self-destructive traumas within Marilyn Monroe's character, to very divisive results [...]
Don’t Worry Darling
Actress-turned-filmmaker Olivia Wilde reached a rare career high after shifting gears from acting to directing her feature film, the teen comedy, Booksmart. While not lighting the box office on fire, [...]
God’s Country
The atmospheric and sophisticated sensibilities of Sam Peckinpah, Tyler Sheridan, and even Ingmar Bergman and Andrei Tarkovsky levitate potently over Julian Higgin's God's Country, a restrained neo-western that takes its [...]
The Woman King
The historical battle epic is a Hollywood staple. So too is the manipulation of historical stories or the softening of edges to make a story more palatable or reassuring to [...]
See How They Run
Some impressive work by a splendid cast, along with a breezy pace, delivers most of the deflections in See How They Run, a comic murder whodunit that's very much influenced [...]