Film Reviews & Insights
Uncharted
Not helping the case against video games movies is the latest starring vehicle for Spider-Man star Tom Holland. The adaptation of the popular (and spectacular) video game franchise, Uncharted, may [...]
Moonfall
After sitting down to watch Roland Emmerich’s newest disaster sci-fi, Moonfall, I realized that there are two ways of being mind-blown. For example, watching David Lynch’s masterpiece Mulholland Dr. will [...]
Death on the Nile
Kenneth Branagh’s 2017 adaptation of the classic Agatha Christie novel Murder on the Orient Express did a capable enough job at bringing the iconic story to life for a modern [...]
Kimi
Returning to a more stripped-down style that he departed from recently with No Sudden Move and Let Them All Talk, Steven Soderberg retains his visual skills but dispenses with some [...]
Jockey
Just as the title suggests, Jockey is the title of a horse jockey in Clint Bentley's impressive debut feature that made its premiere at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. A [...]
Sundown
A very austere and deeply mysterious character study drama whose subtext is to expose the world's haves and have-nots, Sundown is Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco's most gripping and visually pleasing [...]
Jackass Forever
It’s been nearly 12 years since the Jackass crew came together to bless us with a cinematic offering of blissful debauchery. In that time, the gents have all hit 40 [...]
The Worst Person in the World
There's a reason for the film's title, but to think the main character is some one-dimensional woman who hurts, betrays, and eventually finds redemption in the full circle of things [...]
Italian Studies
The idea of being deprived of your identity and self-worth in the blink of an eye, traversing through the big city of Manhattan is bound to create some adventures. Italian [...]
The Tender Bar
Releasing along the tail of December, George Clooney directs a film adapted from a memoir written by J.R. Moehringer back in 2005, The Tender Bar: A Memoir. It came as [...]
Belle
The eagerly awaited follow-up to the highly acclaimed Japanese animated feature Mirai, Mamoru Hosoda's latest Belle is a cleverly conceived updated adaptation of the classic Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont novel [...]