Film Reviews & Insights
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The absurdist duo of Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert (aka The Daniels) conjures up a dizzying, formally visual, and messy metaphysical confection of many bombastic ideas in Everything Everywhere All [...]
Ambulance
He’s been deemed the next go-to Hollywood filmmaker, the next Tony Scott, and also cinema’s antichrist. Now, in the landscape of major blockbusters being helmed by the likes of Shawn [...]
The Bubble
What do you get when an out-of-touch director directs an insufferably awful screenplay? You’re given a painfully long film that feels as if it should have never left the drawing [...]
You Won’t Be Alone
The first feature from director Goran Stolevski, You Won’t Be Alone is far from a traditional narrative film. Instead, this Australian/Macedonian co-production is a uniquely constructed sensory experience through Macedonian [...]
Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood
Following up with critically acclaimed hits like Dazed and Confused, Boyhood, and Everybody Wants Some, Richard Linklater demonstrated how fondly he remembers his youth and how much he draws from [...]
Morbius
Created in 1971 by Roy Thomas, the Spider-Man villain, Morbius, the Living Vampire has now received similar treatment to fellow villain/anti-hero, Venom, in getting his own standalone feature. Existing within [...]
Master
Horror films come in all shapes and sizes, either featuring creatures of dark descent or even the horrors of modern discrimination, but there are times when both elements clash together [...]
The Lost City
Adventure films haven’t had the best go-around recently. Intending to harken back to the good ol’ days of Hollywood filmmaking, when original films were at the forefront, recent cinematic examples [...]
Infinite Storm
Many films about survival have merged natural landscapes with the themes of man versus nature--or in this case, woman versus nature--where characters find themselves under brutal and very hazardous weather [...]
Deep Water
Well, there is one thing that can be said about director Adrian Lyne, he seems obsessed with the themes of infidelity and the unfaithfulness of significant others in his films. [...]
The Outfit
An impressively written and wrought gangster thriller set in 1950s Chicago that is both dramatic and suspenseful, The Outfit marks the directorial debut of Oscar winning American screenwriter and author [...]